Ex-Himeyuri student relates experience of Battle of Okinawa

Momoko Yonaha, a former member of the Himeyuri Student Corps that consisted of female high school students mobilized as nursing personnel during World War II, talks about her experience of the 1945 Battle of Okinawa on a bus during a tour on July 11, 2015, in the town of Haebaru, Okinawa Prefecture. The tour visiting battlefield sites with surviving former Himeyuri students was held for the first time in 20 years in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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