By KEI YOSHIDA/ Staff Writer
June 22, 2021 at 18:55 JST
John Taylor of the U.S. Consulate in Fukuoka, right, and other participants of the Jun 20 memorial service for U.S. POWs. (Kei Yoshioka)
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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