Many times I have seen bodies in pieces after a plane crash. For example, someone flattened by a steamroller, and someone’s head rammed into their torso by a falling elevator. “I have seen most of the ways people can die. What he witnessed was not always pleasant. For his work he traveled widely across Japanese territory, from the Heilongjiang River in the north, to the Malay Peninsula in the South, and Chahar in Mongolia in the west. Over the next ten years, Shimada wrote for various departments, longest as social reporter, posted throughout Manchuria and for a stint in Shanghai, and as correspondent for the Kwantung Army. The Manchuria Daily News, which he joined in 1931, was owned by a subsidiary of the Southern Manchurian Railway, a semi-public enterprise at the forefront of colonial expansion. He was born in Kyoto in 1907 and raised in Dalian, on the Liaodong Peninsula in northeast China. Shimada, before he became a writer of detective fiction, was a reporter for The Manchuria Daily News, the leading newspaper in Japanese colonial Manchuria. Shimada Kazuo played a small role in the history of Japanese comics – Tatsumi Yoshihiro says he got the basic idea for Black Blizzard of two handcuffed convicts on the run from one of his stories – but not that small. Features Tatsumi Yoshihiro’s “Black Rainbow”
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