JAPANESE FILM ACTOR.
DRIVEN FROM HIS COUNTRY.
HIS LIFE IN PERIL.
TOSIO. Aug. 5.
Believing his life to be endangered, Sessue Hayakawa, the well-known Japanese cinematograph actor, sailed for America by ' the Tenyo Maru to-day t same months ahead of his original plans. Since his arrival in Japan Hayakawa has been guarded by five police, who protected him from the super-patriots, who denounced the roles he played as antiJapanese. A few days ago Hayakawa disappeared from Tokio, and his wife refused to see any callers. . It is now known that he went to Kobe disguised, and boarded the Tenyo Manx. He had received numerous threatening letters. The police also adv*ed him to return to America.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18169, 15 August 1922, Page 7
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