Found on Death Row

In early twentieth-century Japan, Tokichi Ishii sat in a prison cell awaiting execution. He had been convicted of multiple murders, and guards considered him one of the most dangerous men they had ever confined. He snarled at visitors, threw things at chaplains, and refused every attempt at conversation. He was, in every sense, a man in hiding — barricaded behind fury and silence, unreachable behind walls of his own making.…