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[100 Years Ago Today] September 1, 1926 - Bak Yeol and Kaneko Fumiko

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  1. On September 1, 1926, Japan's Ministry of Justice officially announced the full details of the 'shocking photos' scandal involving Bak Yeol and Kaneko Fumiko, including how the photos were taken and how they were leaked.
  2. Bak Yeol was sentenced to death after the 1923 Tokyo 'Great Treason Incident' but had his sentence commuted to life imprisonment; Kaneko Fumiko died at Utsunomiya Prison on July 23.
  3. The prison said her death was a suicide, but doubts about the cause of death persisted, and in Gyeongseong demands for an investigation into the truth continued.

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[100 Years Ago Today] September 1, 1926 - Bak Yeol and Kaneko Fumiko

Official translation → Read the full article (machine translation) → Original article (Korean): [100년 전 오늘] 1926년 9월 1일 – 박열·가네코 후미코

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