Students visit WWII internment camp in Okinawa

A group of high school students visits the site of a World War II internment camp in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, on June 13, 2015. U.S. forces set up the camp during ground battles in Japan's southernmost prefecture in the final months of the war. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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