The Assassination of the Japanese

Three months after the assassination of the regent, two russian sailors were brutally murdered in the port city of yokohama. As a british foreign official observed, the manner in which the murdered men were slashed and nearly dismembered indicated more than a mere desire to disable or kill. The assassins were not content with simply killing. They must have taken pleasure in cutting them to pieces. In the following months, foreigners start getting murdered all over japan. Just a few months after the russians were killed, a french interpreter was murdered by the rhonan. The following month, two dutch merchants were cut down in the middle of the street. Shortly after,