Memorial service held for WWII poison plant workers on west Japan island

Memorial service held for WWII poison plant workers on west Japan island

A memorial service is held on Okuno, an island off Takehara, Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan, on Oct. 22, 2015, for people who died from residual effects of their work at a poison gas plant operated there by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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