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Emperor, empress, Princess Aiko to visit Okinawa WWII sites

May 8 06:35 am JST 4 Comments

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Bobby Franks
May 8 07:09 am JST

The following day, they will lay flowers at a memorial in Naha for the Tsushima Maru incident, in which about 1,500 people, including hundreds of schoolchildren, were killed in the August 1944 sinking of a Japanese ship in a U.S. submarine torpedo attack.

Informative account of this sinking at the link below.

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https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20230621/p2a/00m/0na/011000c

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YeahRight
May 8 08:54 am JST

At taxpayers' expense, of course.

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Cephus
May 8 09:35 am JST

Great!! Peace by all means.

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mountainpear
May 8 01:04 pm JST

How about visiting Harbin sometime!

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Emperor, empress, Princess Aiko to visit Okinawa WWII sites