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Tony Takitani's real name was...
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It really was Tony Takitani
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Tony's father
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was Takitani Shozaburo,
a jazz musician
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Right before the Pacific War began,
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Shozaburo caused some trouble
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and made his way from Tokyo to China.
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Takitani passed the violent war years,
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breezily playing trombone
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in a Shanghai night club.
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And when the war ended,
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his longstanding ties with
shady characters caught up with him,
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and thy locked him up
in prison for long time.
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Most of his fellow prisoners
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were executed, one after another,
with hardly any benefit of a trial.
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The executions always took place
at two in the afternoon.
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One day, without warning,
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they'd drag him to the courtyard, too,