By ROPPEI TSUDA/ Staff Writer
December 9, 2021 at 18:56 JST
A two-man submarine used in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. It was returned to Japan in 1961. It is now on display at a school of the Maritime Self-Defense Force in Etajima, Hiroshima Prefecture. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
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