Granddaughter of "war orphan" watches cherry blossoms with daughter

Hitomi Shibazaki, born and raised in China before coming to Japan as an elementary schoolgirl, watches cherry blossoms with her 2-year-old daughter in the compound of an apartment complex in Yokohama southwest of Tokyo, as pictured in March 2015. She lived there with her Japanese grandmother who, left behind in China at the end of World War II, died in 1995 after being repatriated to Japan a decade before. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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