U.S. scoffs at accusation of treating Japan like colony in Fischer case
By Marvin Feltcher, Mainichi Daily News, Jan. 19, 2005
"Japan is on a high speed bullet train to colonization under Koizumi," Bosnitch said.
Bosnitch said he had met Fischer in detention. "He looks unwell and this is the direct result of mistreatment received at the Japanese ...government's hands,"....
Watai, the president of the Japan Chess Federation and a chess champion herself, said the grandmaster complains of the noise in the detention center and often suffers from headaches and dizziness. His supporters said Fischer abhors Western medicine and does not want to consider availing himself of the medical care available at the center, which they said is widely regarded as being inadequate.
Fischer's fiance also slammed the government's handling of the case. "I want to protest the Japanese government for obeying the U.S. government," she said.
Earlier, Watai told the Mainichi Daily News that Fischer's hair had grown so long during the almost seven months he has spent being detained by immigration authorities that he has come to resemble another genius from a different era. "He looks like Leonardo da Vinci," she said.
