Richard Sorge was a Soviet Union's spy who worked as a journalist and arrested and executed in Japan. Sorge was a genius spy. He collected lots of exact information for Soviet, whereas Stalin didn't believe it and even did no effort when Sorge was arrested. Sorge was hanged at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, the place where 7 Japanese Class A war criminals was hanged, in 1944, 3 years after the arrest. His Japanese lover Hanako Ishii buried him in Tama Cemetery and had been buried with him in 2000.
Because there was no sign about Sorge's grave, I found it not that easy. However, I knew the gravestone that I've seen in the TV, so I was confident that I could recognize it immediately. Sorge and Hanako's names was inscribed on a black gravestone with Russian and Japanese respectively. There is also a natural stone beneath it, on which Sorge's name was written in Japanese and English. I supposed it was the original one Hanako settled for him, since Soviet Union refused to admit that Sorge worked for it until 1964.
I wanted to bring a bunch of flower for him, but there was no flower shop around the gate I entered. Glad to see it, someone has come with flowers though they've withered now.
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