"Kamikaze" pilot museum to seek again UNESCO listing as world memory

Kampei Shimoide, mayor of Minamikyushu, Kagoshima Prefecture, speaks during a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on May 13, 2015. He said the southwestern Japanese city will once again seek this year UNESCO recognition as a "Memory of the World" for a collection of materials related to World War II "kamikaze" suicide pilots kept at a peace museum in the city where their base was located during the war. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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