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Old 2010-06-20, 20:14   Link #11339
Oliver
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Originally Posted by Renall View Post
Well, there's a Dr. Nanjo in 1998 who claims he had a father who was also a Dr. Nanjo and that his father died on Rokkenjima. Sure, you can call 1998 into question too, but that's a long way to go to set up a lie, especially 12 years later.
There's no question that the junior Nanjo had a father who was also Dr. Nanjo, if only because that's where the junior Nanjo's practice comes from. But relatively little evidence remains that this father is the man who was on Rokkenjima during the conference and was calling himself "Nanjo Terumasa". The real Nanjo could have been swimming with the fishes by then.

There's no good hints to assume this is what in fact happened, but there is still room for the author to mess with it without upsetting much of anything.
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