By KEI YOSHIDA/ Staff Writer
June 22, 2021 at 18:55 JST
Katsuya Toji, the son of an Imperial Japanese Army officer who took part in the executions of U.S. POWs in 1945, offers incense at a memorial service in Fukuoka on June 20. (Kei Yoshida)
FUKUOKA--Buddhist sutras were chanted and incense smoldered during a memorial service here for 43 U.S. soldiers executed while being detained as prisoners of war by the Imperial Japanese Army or who died during horrific surgical experiments performed by army doctors at Kyushu University. [Read More]
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