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Japan wanted Manchukuo to become what India was to Britain or what Algeria was to France – a crown jewel of the empire – and sent a million immigrants (800,000 of whom died there after post-war Manchukuo was taken over by Russia) while investing huge sums to develop heavy industry.

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And the stories that were captured of his life make up one of the crown jewels of histories, of human-lived experiences filled with ex-slaves.

And although I didn't capture the crown, that experience opened so many doors for me.

So at his last chemo, we sang him the song and we put the crown on his head and we blew the bubbles, and then I asked him, I said, "So what are you going to do now?"

In 2000, the Indian Supreme Court held that the holy books of the Sikh religion was a legal person, and in 2012, just recently, there was a treaty between the indigenous peoples of New Zealand and the crown, in which it was agreed that a river was a legal person who owned its own riverbed.

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