Suicides of Japanese women after WWII surrender remembered

Chieko Kuriyama puts her palms together on Aug. 20, 2015, in front of a cenotaph in Wakkanai, Hokkaido, northern Japan, dedicated to nine female telephone operators at a Japanese post office in Maoka, now Kholmsk, on the southern portion of the island of Sakhalin, who committed suicide on Aug. 20, 1945, during a Soviet attack in the area after Japan's surrender in World War II. Kuriyama was a coworker of the nine. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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