Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Shimoyame Case : The Last Testimonies



Shimoyama Case : The Last Testimonies (下山事件 -- 最後の証言)
Tetsutaka Shibata
ISBN 978-4-396-33367-6

Shimoyama Case is one of the biggest mystery in the post World War II history of Japan.
There are so many books and research works on the case, but the view point of this book's author is unique and interesting.
He is a grand son of a possible person involved, and the main reason that drove him to investigate the case deeply was to know if his grand father was really guilty or not.

BTW, the case happened in 1949 during occupation by GHQ. Thus, you can find a lot of official reports in The National Archives of the United States:

http://arcweb.archives.gov/arc/basic_search.jsp

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