Mitsuhirato

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Mitsuhirato is a character from The Adventures of Tintin series of classic comic books drawn and written by Hergé. He is a sadistic Japanese double agent who appears in The Blue Lotus. He owns a women's clothing shop in the big, quiet street (direct Danish translation) in Shanghai, but is also involved in a drug trafficking cabale with Rastapopoulos and is also working for the Japanese government. Mitsuhirato is, along with the other Japanese principal characters, characterized as an evil, scheming person, exploiting political turmoil in China to his and his country's advantage. He is also a Japanese government agent, and as witnessed by Tintin, a prominent agent in the Mukden Incident, as the events are portrayed in the The Blue Lotus.

Mitsuhirato attempts several covert assassinations of Tintin, and finally tries to turn Tintin insane by injecting him with the fictional "Rajaijah" juice, which induces madness (see Cigars of the Pharaoh). After this fails, he tries to kill Tintin with his knife, then discovers that is has been substituted with a tin knife and the poison replaced by water, by order of Wang Yen-Chi.

After his plots are ultimately foiled, he commits hara-kiri.

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