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Awaya took the mayoralty in July 1943. Militarists held bad feelings toward him, but among citizens, his popularity was high due to his righteousness. The hardest job that he had to do in
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at the ruin of the mayoral residence. On 9 August, Awaya's chief secretary, Kazumasa
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in commemoration of Awaya's death where the mayoral residence used to stand. Tsuneo
Kanazawa, the minister of the Independent Church of Sapporo, wrote an epitaph to commemorate his 51-year-long life.
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of the Army, demanded an official apology from the Osaka police, insisting that the policeman had unfairly injured the Army's prestige. Awaya, however, refused to apologize because he believed that
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Kakomachi district of Hiroshima, apart from his family at first. Still he decided to invite his family after the
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from an anonymous donor who turned out to be an
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which appeared to be Ayako's, they carried out the unburnt parts of the bodies to cremate them at the park near the city hall.
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1233:(in Japanese), Tokyo: Taishindō
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1145:(in Japanese), Tokyo: Bunshun,
1044:Dōmen, Masaaki (16 July 2009),
1047:被爆死の粟屋元広島市長の次女 康子さんの評伝 日記を基に刊行
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1301:Shigetada Morishita
1273:"Ruin From The Air"
1173:on 25 February 2012
592:Shigetada Morishita
481:Japanese militarism
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126:Shigetada Morishita
1336:People from Sendai
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331:Christianity
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296:Inoue Masaru
286:Awaya Eisuke
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191:Sachiyo Andō
166:(1945-08-06)
121:Succeeded by
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1331:1945 deaths
1326:1893 births
1143:康子十九歳 戦渦の日記
987:Kadota 2009
963:Kadota 2009
951:Kadota 2009
790:Kadota 2009
704:Sakama 1995
657:scholarship
304:high school
109:Preceded by
89:Hideki Tōjō
1320:Categories
678:References
535:firebreaks
362:black belt
351:teetotaler
316:German law
263:Early life
197:Alma mater
147:1893-11-07
1231:粟屋仙吉の人と信仰
1014:Barr 1995
831:Tobe 1998
569:treasurer
560:When the
516:Hiroshima
465:civilians
447:policeman
306:years in
253:Christian
171:Hiroshima
61:In office
51:17th
1258:5 August
716:ゴーストップ事件
643:monument
578:skeleton
500:Setagaya
473:governor
419:governor
392:Hokkaidō
341:to read
339:minister
335:religion
293:Viscount
247:and the
74:Hirohito
1241:広島原爆戦災誌
1203:24 July
1177:24 July
1106:24 July
1087:24 July
1058:24 July
1025:"坂間家",
735:無教会史研究会
573:corpses
518:by his
439:soldier
413:of the
400:Sapporo
173:, Japan
156:, Japan
70:Monarch
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629:Legacy
611:eulogy
520:senpai
445:and a
300:Sendai
188:Spouse
154:Sendai
1252:(PDF)
1245:(PDF)
1213:日本の近代
1134:北国の理想
598:, as
548:Death
504:Tokyo
488:Aichi
477:Hyogo
415:Kōchi
280:粟屋 頴祐
241:mayor
220:粟屋 仙吉
32:粟屋 仙吉
1260:2011
1217:ISBN
1205:2009
1179:2009
1147:ISBN
1120:ISBN
1108:2009
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851:ISBN
492:Oita
358:judo
161:Died
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