Ex-schoolgirl's picture diary shows life at WWII munitions factory

Ex-schoolgirl's picture diary shows life at WWII munitions factory

Photo taken on July 21, 2015, shows a picture diary drawn by Setsu Ogawa as a student of a now-defunct girls' senior high school in Kisarazu, Chiba Prefecture, southeast of Tokyo, in December 1945, four months after the end of World War II. It depicts life at a munitions factory where Ogawa was dispatched during the war. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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