By MAMORU TAKATSU/ Staff Writer
April 20, 2020 at 07:00 JST
Eisaku Saeki, foreground, holds a spear and Fusashige Saeki aims a gun at a target in a photo taken by Asahi Shimbun photographer Giichi Hasegawa in April 1936, which accompanied an article in the Osaka edition of The Asahi Shimbun. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
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