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The unprecedented meeting is claimed as a victory by the interventor and Shindō Renmei alike. The killings temporarily abate, but the Brazilian press derides it as a fiasco. The American consulate decides to get involved with their own countermeasure, “Operation Truth,” which airmails vast quantities of newspapers and canisters of film directly from Japan to show the country’s defeat and scale of destruction. It is dismissed as mere propaganda. On July 31, 1946 the killing of a black Brazilian truck driver by a Japanese youth triggers a pogrom-like scapegoating of the entire Japanese community in the town of Osvaldo Cruz. No one is killed, but thousands are beaten and humiliated.
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Morais, F. (2021). Chapter 6: Japanese Are Hunted and Dragged Through the Streets of the City: The “Day of Reckoning” Has Arrived. In: Dirty Hearts. Historical and Cultural Interconnections between Latin America and Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70562-6_7
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