AUTHORITIES FREE JAPANESE CULTIST, YOSHIKO NAGAOKA
Yoshiko Nagaoka, the 45-year-old Japanese woman who
was jailed when police ruled her Jiukyo religious cult was not in accordance
with the principles of the Potsdam Declaration, has just been released
after being diagnosed as a demen tia paranoia or grandiosemaniacimbecile,
Jiji Press reported yesterday.
Claiming to be a Sun Goddess, she preached the superiority
of the Japanese race, Kanazawa City police revealed. Her release followed
that of Futabayama, former sumo champion, who was one of her most ardent
followers. Police detained several of her "Cabinet Ministers," who were
seized when police took the goddess, also known as Jikosama, and Futabayama
into custody.
Japanese newspapers reported that high-ranking Japanese
wartime military leaders had often consulted her during the last months
of the war. Among these were Korechika Anami, late War Minister, and Gen.
Sugiyama, Army Chief of Staff, who committed suicide at the time of the
surrender.
A ten minute conversation between Jikosama and Professor
Akimoto, Kanazawa psychopathy authority, was recorded and will be broadcast
on a Japan-wide hookup, it was said.
The release of the self-styled goddess made front
page headlines in most of Tokyo's daily newspapers.