JAPANESE MEN SENTENCED TO PRISON FOR CUTTING DOWN AMERICAN FLAG
Tokyo, Japan (JFK+50) On November 6, 1924, The Evening Star reports Riehi Okada, who cut the American flag from the flagstaff in the grounds of the destroyed American embassy on July 1...was yesterday sentenced to six months imprisonment."
Two of Okada's accomplices were also given prison sentences.
The unlawful flag cutting was done during demonstrations held in Japan in June and July protesting American immigration laws "excluding Oriental immigrants from the United States."
SOURCE
"Cutting U.S. Flag Nets Japanese Six Months," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., November 6, 1924, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
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