Dirty Hearts

Seth Jacobowitz is Senior Research Associate at the Dominican Studies Institute at the City University of New York, USA. He is the author of the Edogawa Rampo Reader (2008) and Writing Technology in Meiji Japan: A Media History of Modern Japanese Literature and Visual Culture (2015), which won the 2017 International Convention of Asia Scholars Book Prize in the Humanities. He has been Simon Visiting Professor at University of Manchester, UK, Asakawa Fellow at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan, an invited guest lecturer at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, and frequent Visiting Researcher to the Center of Japanese Studies at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.

1. Seven Japanese Want to Decapitate a Corporal from the Public Forces: World War II is About to Begin Again.- 2. Subjects of the Axis Powers Cannot Have Radios, Cars, or Money. They Are Not Even Allowed to Speak.- 3. A Little Old Man Terrorizes The Japanese Colony: It Is None Other Than The Wise Colonel Kikawa.- 4. Mizobe Appears to be Swimming in the Air: The First Makegumi Falls Dead.- 5. The Police Discover the Fumie, The Torture That Only Harms a Prisoner's Soul.- 6. Japanese Are Hunted and Dragged Through the Streets of the City: The "Day of Reckoning" Has Arrived.- 7. Eiiti Sakane, The Solitary R nin, Prepares a Blood Bath in Tupã.- 8. Prestes, Capanema, and Gilberto Freyre Take the Stand: The "Yellow Mafia" Splits the Constituent Assembly in Two.- 9. A Tokk tai Will Be Tortured and Killed: The End of Shind Renmei.- 10. The Final Balance: 31,000 Imprisoned, 381 Formally Charged, and 80 Expelled from Brazil, but President Kubitschek Pardons Them All.