Ogasawara islander tells of postwar life under U.S. occupation

Ogasawara islander tells of postwar life under U.S. occupation

Kyoko Ohira, a resident of Caucasian descent on the Ogasawara islands, talks during an interview in the village of Ogasawara, south of Tokyo, on June 3, 2015, about life during the two decades of U.S. post-World War II occupation until the territory's return to Japan in June 1968. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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