[100 years ago today] August 9, 1926 - A prison photo of Korean youth Park Yeol topples a Tokyo judge

1. On August 9, 1926, Tatematsu Kaisei, a preliminary hearing judge at the Tokyo District Court, resigned in the aftermath of the "scandalous photo case" involving Park Yeol and his wife.
2. Tatematsu had secretly photographed Park Yeol and Kaneko Fumiko in the preliminary examination room in May 1925, and the photos leaked to a newspaper in July 1926.
3. The case shook Japan's judiciary and political circles, and Korean newspapers cautiously covered it under pre-publication censorship by the Government-General of Korea.

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