U.S.-born Japanese fought for both nations

U.S.-born Japanese fought for both nations

Henry Yasuda, an 86-year-old Japanese-American, shows a photograph of himself taken at the time of his enrollment in a Japanese naval training school, at his home in the suburbs of Los Angeles on Aug. 4, 2015. He served in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II and later in the U.S. army in the 1950-1953 Korean War. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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