Page 1
^kpi
fork & Odditis (Mother of Br. Ohta, mass-murdered family, suicide
11 IdVl JClVld W yUllIllCv
CRUZ. — Aiko his wife.
wife, two„
two sons and ’ a the killings?
killings: Her death was
SANTA CRUZ
■ Ohta, mother of. a victim of secretary at his Soquel not the first tragedy to
By TOYO TAKATA
beset the remaining Ohta .
a 1970 mass murder in this home in October 1970.
family members since the
area, apparently committed
|‘true- count of Nisei.
John ' Lindley ^ Frazier, bizarre murders.
by hanging herself who thew the bodies into
When he gulped his first
Now, jumping to the 1951 suicide
breath 90 years ago, Katsu ji figure, this is further dis in a nursing home recently-: a swimming pool and. set A daughter, Taura who
was away from home the
Oya became a footnote in- torted by two factors. First She was 78.
fire to Ohta’s rambling night the mass murder
Mrs. Ohta, described by home, was convicted of the
Canadian ethnic history. in 1947, more’ than 2,000
His birth in Vancouver in Nisei were “repatriated” to the coroner’s office as being murder is serving a life Frazier struck also took
1889 ranks him ichi-ban, Japan, mainly/ who accom “despondent over personal sentence for them in state her own life in 1977.
She reportedly Thad never
C anada’s premier Nisei.
panied their parents. And- matters.” was the mother of prison.
been able to come to terms
By definition, a Canadian second, after 1941, most of Dr. Victor Ohta, the weal Aiko Ohta was living in with what had happened to
thy Santa Crus optometrist
Nisei is; an offsprings of the Canadiari-born Japanese who- was killed along with Santa Curz at the time of her family.
immigrant Japanese paren coining into the world were
ts born in this country. As not Nisei, but Sansei child-, ■iniiiiiinjiiiiiitiiMmwjiiiHHiiiiiiiiiimiiiimmiiimiHmiiiiHitmminiHiuiinuiiiim^
such, the term is applicable ren of Nisei parents.
today to the Canadian-born
Therefore, to obtain a
children of postwar arrivals reasonably; accurate count
from Japan who are no less of how ^many Nisei were
Nisei than Katsuji Oya and born to prewar Issei parents
Ah Independent Org^n for Csnsdiows d J@poi^ese Origin
other of prewar vintage.
the starting point would
However,?; it’s ? conceded be the 1941 figure of 13,087. Vol. 44 - No. 2
TORONTO, ONTARIO
FRIDAY, JAN. 11, 1980
that when Nisei is mention Tor that add 1,500 to ac niiiiiiiiiiiiH.HiimiuiiirmninniimiHiininiHhHniiHmiHiHiHiiUHUjHmHiiiiiiiHinininiisiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiHHLii
ed, it generally refers to count for Nisei who \^ere in
the progeny oL those who Japan at the time of Pearl High gostsforceAnnexconsh^
.were established in Canada Harbour, giving an overall
before the great upheaval. total of more than 15,000
And it is in this context Then if we were to assume
that we offer some facts and that possibly 10-15% of them
'
Annex
we’ve devised a day for an 16th). Patron cards for; $5
observations about this par passed away in their in
ticular, and really, a rare fancy or youth, the overall
auction, a party, and a draw or more, $3 or more for
TORONTO.
—
The
Annex
breed of Canadians.
for 2 dinners for' two at senior citizens, tax receipts'
total of Canadian Nisei/
Party, Auction, and Draw
for those who: request them.
It was not until 1901, that living or dead, ’ born to will be held on Saturday, a Japanese restaurant.
We’re only -what you x
Ottawa decided totally the pioneer' or prewar Issei January 19th from 1:30 to
To be eligible for the
number of' Japanese living families to- no more than 3:30 p.m.
draw you must become an make us! .
Top priori ti
in Canada. And among 17-18,000. Thus, despite the
Annex Patron
between
have
forced
High
costs
them, according to the claims of those erstwhile the Annex to consider January 1st and January in 1980 are:
a) Sansei involvement,
decennial census 'taken that B C. racists, we could never moving to .a smaller, less 19th—the day of the draw.
encouraging
on
year, out of 4,738 Japanese have inundated the West expensive location, and (Mail contributions will focus
residents, a mere 64 Cana Coast. Indeed, we are in excess furniture, and goods only be considered if re leadership.
truth, a rare species, whose
b) Seniors, both in' helpdian-born were counted.
ceived on or before January
must
therefore
be
sold.
So
ing senior citizens of the
average age today, must, be
The number of Nisei for in the early 50’s.
Annex and others.
the 50-year period from 1901,
c) Community communi
Getting back to the early Senator Kennedy takes a poke at S.I
with the 10-year increase in
cation, both J.C. and Sansei
era of the Nisei, before the
brackets, were:
turn of the century, there Hayakawqzs sleeping bag and pillow leadership will be promoted,
community _ posting of act
1901—64
were five Japanese commu
1911----642 (578 increase) nities, Vancouver which
WASHINGTON. — Mass “Sen: .Cranston and I ivities, promoting communi
1921 — 4,218-(3,576) _ consisted really of three or achusetts Sen. Edward M. serve in the Senate with cation
and
awareness
1931 _ 11,018 (6,863)
four separate settlements, Kennedy, campaign in San your other senator, Sam between groups and indivi
1941 — 13,687 (2,606)
Steveston, Victoria, Cum Francisjco for fellow Demo Hayakawa. My desk is right duals of the community
1951 — 15,424 (1,737)
berland and Skeena. A sixth crat Sen. Alan Cranston, next to his sleping bag and through the newsletter and
Kennedy
said, oral and visual means.
It should be pointed out may have been New West poked fun recently at pillow”,
d) Your Project. other
senator, laughing.
that these figures show only minster but there is no Calif.’s
Questions
about
the
the number of Canadian- solid evidence. In each of Republican S. I. Hayakawa.
Annex and the draw on how
born Japanese in .Canada at these communities there,
to become involved may be
the time the census was were early Nisei births in
American
who
aided
Jpnz.
passes
answered by any one of .
taken, and does not. reflect dicating the presence of
those listed below. The
thb actual total of Canadian families In Victoria, for
TOKYO. — Paul Fred Kentucky, . first came to people of the Annex come
Nisei. For instance, in the instance, was the family of erick Rusch, an American Japan in 1923 and taught at
from varied backgrounds,
1901 count of 64 Nisei, it pro Manzo, Canada’s first Issei,, who lived with Japanese the Univ, of Tokyo.
bably does not include whose son, George, was born farmers for more than 30 He returned to Japan in as are their interests, so
Katsuji Oya nor his brother in 1890. Incidentally, he years to help reconstruct 1945 at the end of World don’t hesitate to call:
Jiro, born 1890, because at passed away in November, Japanese agriculture, died War II and worked for im Dennis Madokoro, Janet
Margaret
Mrs.
the time, they were believed last year, in Los Angeles. zof lung cancer at a Tokyo provement of the Japanese Ogaki,
to be at school in Japan.
There were the individual hospital recently. He was farm life through the Kiyo Nagai, Bruce Tatemichi,
Sakauye,
Yosh
Randy
A proper education for .families such as that* of 82
—~
' sato Education Experiment Inouye, Karie Shiozaki,
Rusch, born in Louisville, Project.
their developing children SKuzo Uyehara who came to
Gordon Mizuyabu, Mrs. Mae
was the chief concern of Canada by way of San
Ogaki,
Ron
Shimizu,
struggling Issei parents.-To Francisco to farm and log
Lorraine Naruse,
them, proper education on Salt Spring Island bullet -train" breaks speed record
Please leave a message
meant Japanese school, around 1892 At least three
this month for one of them
TOKYO. — The super Railways said.
since most Issei planned to of their children were born
return to Japan after saving there before 1900 and one express “bullet train” set a The bullet train now runs to call on our answering
a sufficient stake As many of them, a daughter, lives in new Japanese rail speed at speeds up to 210 kph line 463-7441. Hope to hear
record of 293 kilometers per (130 mph) between Tokyo from you soon!
as one-third of all Nisei New Jersey.
hour (182 miles. per hour) and Hakata on the island of NOTE: activities of the
born before 1911 may have
By 1911, when the Nisei on an experimental track Kyushu 900 kilometers (560 seniors include go, shogi
been sent to Japan, thus the
and craft. — Annex
recently the Japan Nationa! miles) to the west.
^ont. on page 2
census figures are not the
THE NEW CANADIAN
Annex party, auction& draw on Jan. 19
9
fork & Odditis (Mother of Br. Ohta, mass-murdered family, suicide
11 IdVl JClVld W yUllIllCv
CRUZ. — Aiko his wife.
wife, two„
two sons and ’ a the killings?
killings: Her death was
SANTA CRUZ
■ Ohta, mother of. a victim of secretary at his Soquel not the first tragedy to
By TOYO TAKATA
beset the remaining Ohta .
a 1970 mass murder in this home in October 1970.
family members since the
area, apparently committed
|‘true- count of Nisei.
John ' Lindley ^ Frazier, bizarre murders.
by hanging herself who thew the bodies into
When he gulped his first
Now, jumping to the 1951 suicide
breath 90 years ago, Katsu ji figure, this is further dis in a nursing home recently-: a swimming pool and. set A daughter, Taura who
was away from home the
Oya became a footnote in- torted by two factors. First She was 78.
fire to Ohta’s rambling night the mass murder
Mrs. Ohta, described by home, was convicted of the
Canadian ethnic history. in 1947, more’ than 2,000
His birth in Vancouver in Nisei were “repatriated” to the coroner’s office as being murder is serving a life Frazier struck also took
1889 ranks him ichi-ban, Japan, mainly/ who accom “despondent over personal sentence for them in state her own life in 1977.
She reportedly Thad never
C anada’s premier Nisei.
panied their parents. And- matters.” was the mother of prison.
been able to come to terms
By definition, a Canadian second, after 1941, most of Dr. Victor Ohta, the weal Aiko Ohta was living in with what had happened to
thy Santa Crus optometrist
Nisei is; an offsprings of the Canadiari-born Japanese who- was killed along with Santa Curz at the time of her family.
immigrant Japanese paren coining into the world were
ts born in this country. As not Nisei, but Sansei child-, ■iniiiiiinjiiiiiitiiMmwjiiiHHiiiiiiiiiimiiiimmiiimiHmiiiiHitmminiHiuiinuiiiim^
such, the term is applicable ren of Nisei parents.
today to the Canadian-born
Therefore, to obtain a
children of postwar arrivals reasonably; accurate count
from Japan who are no less of how ^many Nisei were
Nisei than Katsuji Oya and born to prewar Issei parents
Ah Independent Org^n for Csnsdiows d J@poi^ese Origin
other of prewar vintage.
the starting point would
However,?; it’s ? conceded be the 1941 figure of 13,087. Vol. 44 - No. 2
TORONTO, ONTARIO
FRIDAY, JAN. 11, 1980
that when Nisei is mention Tor that add 1,500 to ac niiiiiiiiiiiiH.HiimiuiiirmninniimiHiininiHhHniiHmiHiHiHiiUHUjHmHiiiiiiiHinininiisiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiHHLii
ed, it generally refers to count for Nisei who \^ere in
the progeny oL those who Japan at the time of Pearl High gostsforceAnnexconsh^
.were established in Canada Harbour, giving an overall
before the great upheaval. total of more than 15,000
And it is in this context Then if we were to assume
that we offer some facts and that possibly 10-15% of them
'
Annex
we’ve devised a day for an 16th). Patron cards for; $5
observations about this par passed away in their in
ticular, and really, a rare fancy or youth, the overall
auction, a party, and a draw or more, $3 or more for
TORONTO.
—
The
Annex
breed of Canadians.
for 2 dinners for' two at senior citizens, tax receipts'
total of Canadian Nisei/
Party, Auction, and Draw
for those who: request them.
It was not until 1901, that living or dead, ’ born to will be held on Saturday, a Japanese restaurant.
We’re only -what you x
Ottawa decided totally the pioneer' or prewar Issei January 19th from 1:30 to
To be eligible for the
number of' Japanese living families to- no more than 3:30 p.m.
draw you must become an make us! .
Top priori ti
in Canada. And among 17-18,000. Thus, despite the
Annex Patron
between
have
forced
High
costs
them, according to the claims of those erstwhile the Annex to consider January 1st and January in 1980 are:
a) Sansei involvement,
decennial census 'taken that B C. racists, we could never moving to .a smaller, less 19th—the day of the draw.
encouraging
on
year, out of 4,738 Japanese have inundated the West expensive location, and (Mail contributions will focus
residents, a mere 64 Cana Coast. Indeed, we are in excess furniture, and goods only be considered if re leadership.
truth, a rare species, whose
b) Seniors, both in' helpdian-born were counted.
ceived on or before January
must
therefore
be
sold.
So
ing senior citizens of the
average age today, must, be
The number of Nisei for in the early 50’s.
Annex and others.
the 50-year period from 1901,
c) Community communi
Getting back to the early Senator Kennedy takes a poke at S.I
with the 10-year increase in
cation, both J.C. and Sansei
era of the Nisei, before the
brackets, were:
turn of the century, there Hayakawqzs sleeping bag and pillow leadership will be promoted,
community _ posting of act
1901—64
were five Japanese commu
1911----642 (578 increase) nities, Vancouver which
WASHINGTON. — Mass “Sen: .Cranston and I ivities, promoting communi
1921 — 4,218-(3,576) _ consisted really of three or achusetts Sen. Edward M. serve in the Senate with cation
and
awareness
1931 _ 11,018 (6,863)
four separate settlements, Kennedy, campaign in San your other senator, Sam between groups and indivi
1941 — 13,687 (2,606)
Steveston, Victoria, Cum Francisjco for fellow Demo Hayakawa. My desk is right duals of the community
1951 — 15,424 (1,737)
berland and Skeena. A sixth crat Sen. Alan Cranston, next to his sleping bag and through the newsletter and
Kennedy
said, oral and visual means.
It should be pointed out may have been New West poked fun recently at pillow”,
d) Your Project. other
senator, laughing.
that these figures show only minster but there is no Calif.’s
Questions
about
the
the number of Canadian- solid evidence. In each of Republican S. I. Hayakawa.
Annex and the draw on how
born Japanese in .Canada at these communities there,
to become involved may be
the time the census was were early Nisei births in
American
who
aided
Jpnz.
passes
answered by any one of .
taken, and does not. reflect dicating the presence of
those listed below. The
thb actual total of Canadian families In Victoria, for
TOKYO. — Paul Fred Kentucky, . first came to people of the Annex come
Nisei. For instance, in the instance, was the family of erick Rusch, an American Japan in 1923 and taught at
from varied backgrounds,
1901 count of 64 Nisei, it pro Manzo, Canada’s first Issei,, who lived with Japanese the Univ, of Tokyo.
bably does not include whose son, George, was born farmers for more than 30 He returned to Japan in as are their interests, so
Katsuji Oya nor his brother in 1890. Incidentally, he years to help reconstruct 1945 at the end of World don’t hesitate to call:
Jiro, born 1890, because at passed away in November, Japanese agriculture, died War II and worked for im Dennis Madokoro, Janet
Margaret
Mrs.
the time, they were believed last year, in Los Angeles. zof lung cancer at a Tokyo provement of the Japanese Ogaki,
to be at school in Japan.
There were the individual hospital recently. He was farm life through the Kiyo Nagai, Bruce Tatemichi,
Sakauye,
Yosh
Randy
A proper education for .families such as that* of 82
—~
' sato Education Experiment Inouye, Karie Shiozaki,
Rusch, born in Louisville, Project.
their developing children SKuzo Uyehara who came to
Gordon Mizuyabu, Mrs. Mae
was the chief concern of Canada by way of San
Ogaki,
Ron
Shimizu,
struggling Issei parents.-To Francisco to farm and log
Lorraine Naruse,
them, proper education on Salt Spring Island bullet -train" breaks speed record
Please leave a message
meant Japanese school, around 1892 At least three
this month for one of them
TOKYO. — The super Railways said.
since most Issei planned to of their children were born
return to Japan after saving there before 1900 and one express “bullet train” set a The bullet train now runs to call on our answering
a sufficient stake As many of them, a daughter, lives in new Japanese rail speed at speeds up to 210 kph line 463-7441. Hope to hear
record of 293 kilometers per (130 mph) between Tokyo from you soon!
as one-third of all Nisei New Jersey.
hour (182 miles. per hour) and Hakata on the island of NOTE: activities of the
born before 1911 may have
By 1911, when the Nisei on an experimental track Kyushu 900 kilometers (560 seniors include go, shogi
been sent to Japan, thus the
and craft. — Annex
recently the Japan Nationa! miles) to the west.
^ont. on page 2
census figures are not the
THE NEW CANADIAN
Annex party, auction& draw on Jan. 19
9
Page 2
Friday- Jan. 11, 1980
PAGE 4
Only wish to die in clean clothes
Execution of Hideki Tojo & other war criminals over 30 years ago recalled
j
wan were shrine where the nation’s
By KAY TATEISHI, I the trials were in progress.
Asked if there was anyth- s^nsferad* fa”* U.S. Army war dead
deadsince
since 1879 are
J;^ .Aa. ^i„« ing the priest could do for transferred n___
honored.
TOKYO — Third-one
Five died while serving him, Tojo said , “Yes, please truck to a crematorium in honored.
years ago, shortly after prison terms and other were take care of my glasses and Yokohama, a part of the Their names were ihscibed
ashes
were . -reportedly on tiny tablets and placed
11:30 p.m. on Dec. 23, 1948, Paroled after serving part dentures.”
seven Japanese wartime lea- of their sentences. They mTojo, Matsui, Doihara scooped up by a Japanese in the shrine’s inner sanc
ders mounted the gallows at eluded one legged Mamoru and Muto were the first to defense lawyer who happen tum aloiig with the “souls”
. Sugamo gallows and were Shigematsu, who later serv- enter the execution cham ed to live close by. The some 2.45 million soldiers
. s ,
ed as foreign minister in ber. Before mounting the occupation authorities .had
hanged.
I
~
and civilians.
rejected
a
request
from
the
The seven had been found
. final 13 steps Matsui led seven families for the ashes A shrine priest told the
guilty of conspiracy to wage
The Japanese war crimi- them in three bapzai cheers
aggressive war and neglige- nals were sentenced on Nov for the emperor andthe which the U.S. military press “No one was notified.
said, were dumped into the The names were recorded
■ nee in preventing'war 12, 1948 and returned to Japanese- empire.
They were followed by sea from a U.S. military at our own discretion.”
crimes and crimes against Sugamo Prison where they
humanity by a tribunal of had been he d since their Hirota, Itagaki and Kimura aircraft.
On April 22, 1965, the
Allied Powers, including the arrest shortly after the who heard “banzai” cheers
United States, China, Bri- Allied Occupation of Japan as they headed for the lawyer % formally turned
unn kashiho
over the ashes to the seven
tain, Australia and the began in September 1945^ chapel.
AND ASSOCIATES
Hirota asked Hanayama families.
Soviet Un
hardlyknewwhatlhejsenCHARTERED
Two years later they were
if the men were doing
ACCOUNTANTS
The trial began on May 3, tences meant
“mazai,” a kind of comic buried near Atami' where a
523 THE QUEEN SWAY
cenotaph was placed with
dialogue
popular
in
the
o- »«■'US
«
the words “Grave of Seven TORONTO, ONT. M8Y 1J7
Japanese,
variety
houses
:
Tojo, who bungled a suicide mandant of Sukarno Prison
PHONE 255-7341
Gentlemen,” written by the
“
Manai
?
”
Hanayama
ask
attempt when he was about received an orded to execute ed. Then he realized it was Prime Minister Shigeru
to be arrested; Saisho the seven condemned men, Hirota’s last wry joke. “You YoshiSa, the man Tojo
Itagaki, Kenji Doihara, who had been kept'under mean ‘banzai.’ Yes, they humiliated during the war. 1
Say it
Heitaro Kimura, Iwane close watch, at 0001 hours did. If you want to do the A controversy arose last
with Flowers
as
Matsui and
and Akira'
Akira Muto;
Muto; or
^ as
»= soon
— thereafter
-~April when it was learned SHARON'S FLORIST
and Koki Hirota, the only | practicable on Dec. 23, 1948. sapie, go ahead.” But Hirota that on Oct. 17, 1978, the
942 PAPE AVE.
shook his head. Itagaki led
At 11:30 p.m., Tojo apTORONTO. ONT,
civilian. '
three “banzai” seven major war criminals
them,
in
TEL: 425-2122
Their deaths came two peared in the prison chapel. cheers ,but Hirota did not and seven others were sec
City wide delivery
retly enshined in . Yasuni
years after 10 major Nazi Buddhist priest Shinso join in.
Peter Sasaki
After the bodies of the Jinja, Japan’s top Shinto
German leaders were sent Hanayama who served as
enced and hangedin the chaplain, ^attended To jo’s
early hours of Oct. 16, 1946, last Buddhist service following the Nuremberg Tojo was dressed in drab
khaki clothing, his feet in
trials.
Among the remaining 21 socks fitted to ~ wooden
^©^0^11,
defendants, Shumei Okawa prison clogs and handcuff
was declared insane. The ed He gave a slight smile
U.S. educated former forei- And he said he. wished he
gn minister, Yosuke Mats-, had something clean to
uoka, and Adm. Osami Na- wear, He said Japanese
gano died of illness while like to die in clean clothes
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PAGE 4
Only wish to die in clean clothes
Execution of Hideki Tojo & other war criminals over 30 years ago recalled
j
wan were shrine where the nation’s
By KAY TATEISHI, I the trials were in progress.
Asked if there was anyth- s^nsferad* fa”* U.S. Army war dead
deadsince
since 1879 are
J;^ .Aa. ^i„« ing the priest could do for transferred n___
honored.
TOKYO — Third-one
Five died while serving him, Tojo said , “Yes, please truck to a crematorium in honored.
years ago, shortly after prison terms and other were take care of my glasses and Yokohama, a part of the Their names were ihscibed
ashes
were . -reportedly on tiny tablets and placed
11:30 p.m. on Dec. 23, 1948, Paroled after serving part dentures.”
seven Japanese wartime lea- of their sentences. They mTojo, Matsui, Doihara scooped up by a Japanese in the shrine’s inner sanc
ders mounted the gallows at eluded one legged Mamoru and Muto were the first to defense lawyer who happen tum aloiig with the “souls”
. Sugamo gallows and were Shigematsu, who later serv- enter the execution cham ed to live close by. The some 2.45 million soldiers
. s ,
ed as foreign minister in ber. Before mounting the occupation authorities .had
hanged.
I
~
and civilians.
rejected
a
request
from
the
The seven had been found
. final 13 steps Matsui led seven families for the ashes A shrine priest told the
guilty of conspiracy to wage
The Japanese war crimi- them in three bapzai cheers
aggressive war and neglige- nals were sentenced on Nov for the emperor andthe which the U.S. military press “No one was notified.
said, were dumped into the The names were recorded
■ nee in preventing'war 12, 1948 and returned to Japanese- empire.
They were followed by sea from a U.S. military at our own discretion.”
crimes and crimes against Sugamo Prison where they
humanity by a tribunal of had been he d since their Hirota, Itagaki and Kimura aircraft.
On April 22, 1965, the
Allied Powers, including the arrest shortly after the who heard “banzai” cheers
United States, China, Bri- Allied Occupation of Japan as they headed for the lawyer % formally turned
unn kashiho
over the ashes to the seven
tain, Australia and the began in September 1945^ chapel.
AND ASSOCIATES
Hirota asked Hanayama families.
Soviet Un
hardlyknewwhatlhejsenCHARTERED
Two years later they were
if the men were doing
ACCOUNTANTS
The trial began on May 3, tences meant
“mazai,” a kind of comic buried near Atami' where a
523 THE QUEEN SWAY
cenotaph was placed with
dialogue
popular
in
the
o- »«■'US
«
the words “Grave of Seven TORONTO, ONT. M8Y 1J7
Japanese,
variety
houses
:
Tojo, who bungled a suicide mandant of Sukarno Prison
PHONE 255-7341
Gentlemen,” written by the
“
Manai
?
”
Hanayama
ask
attempt when he was about received an orded to execute ed. Then he realized it was Prime Minister Shigeru
to be arrested; Saisho the seven condemned men, Hirota’s last wry joke. “You YoshiSa, the man Tojo
Itagaki, Kenji Doihara, who had been kept'under mean ‘banzai.’ Yes, they humiliated during the war. 1
Say it
Heitaro Kimura, Iwane close watch, at 0001 hours did. If you want to do the A controversy arose last
with Flowers
as
Matsui and
and Akira'
Akira Muto;
Muto; or
^ as
»= soon
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