TORTURE IN JAPAN
ELIMINATION PROMISED
TOKIO, February 16.
There was a sensation in the House of Peers when Baron Kishichi Kokubo, a septuagenarian who was twice imprisoned for political activity, directed attention to the torturing by police of prisoners and suspects, including fore-, ing water through the nostrils, suspension by the feet, and branding the forehead with hot irons.
The Home Minister replied that the police and Government officials concerned -had already been punished. The Government intended to eliminate torture.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 40, 17 February 1937, Page 11
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