Word: torasaburo
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...certainly had not accomplished it. All they had to show for their efforts was a dead female fellow conspirator, accidentally killed by her own hand grenade at the start of the skyjacking and an obliterated $29 million airplane. "It was the most hopelessly baffling case," said Japanese Transportation Minister Torasaburo Shintani, who was ready to offer as much as $5,000,000 in ransom. "From start to finish we never knew what they wanted. Money we were prepared to pay and political asylum too. We're still in the dark...