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Posted by: BillyBobJoe on Jun 27, 2005 - 08:05 AM
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(Kyodo) _ Kenzo Okuzaki, known as the protagonist in the documentary "The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On" and for using a slingshot to fire steel pinballs at Emperor Showa in 1969, died in a Kobe hospital June 16, sources close to him said Sunday. He was 85. Okuzaki, a native of Hyogo Prefecture, survived the battlefields of New Guinea in World War II as a soldier in the Japanese Imperial Army. The documentary, known as "Yuki Yukite, Shingun" in Japanese covered his quest to confront his former senior army officers over the execution of fellow Japanese soldiers soon after Japan's surrender.
Okuzaki, who became a battery merchant in Kobe after the war, was jailed after using a slingshot against the emperor at a New Year's greeting gathering at the palace to protest at what he considered to be the emperor's responsibility for leading Japan into war. Okuzaki was later sentenced to 12 years in prison for attempted murder when he fired at the son of his former superior army officer in 1983. The sources did not reveal his cause of death.
Kyodo News via Yahoo! Asia News
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