Role of telling war experience passed on to younger generation

Role of telling war experience passed on to younger generation

Hiromi Onabe, who works at the Himeyuri Peace Museum in Itoman, Okinawa Prefecture, southwestern Japan, explains exhibits at the facility to high schoolers on an excursion on June 2, 2015. She assumes the role of a "storyteller" about the experiences of surviving "Himeyuri students" mobilized as nursing aides in the closing days of World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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