It all began with a letter from a condemned killer.
"I am pretty scared. I am about to lose heart. There are days when I tremble (with fear). I want to go to sleep in someone's arms," the man wrote from the Hiroshima Detention Center.
"That aside, I am looking forward to meeting you."
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