Australia returns Japanese company records seized during WWII

Australia returns Japanese company records seized during WWII

Takeo Kato (C), president of the National Archives of Japan, and Sumio Kusaka (R), Japanese ambassador to Australia, hold a document box presented by David Fricker (L), during a ceremony in Canberra on Nov. 21, 2017. The box is a replica of one of the 3,300 containing Japanese wartime company records seized by the Australian government during World War II which were formally handed over to Japan the same day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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