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Survivor's Memories Keep Lost Manchurian Settlement Alive

Eighty-one years after the end of World War II, a newly donated book and the testimony of a man who moved to Manchuria as a child are preserving the history of a Japanese settlement known as Hamamatsu…

  • Kosuke Shibata recounts fleeing Hamamatsu Village in August 1945.
  • Shibata's book details Hamamatsu pioneer group's history in Manchuria.
  • Students study book to connect wartime past with present landscape.

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