Rescue worker points to site of 1945 sinking of naval transport ship

Rescue worker points to site of 1945 sinking of naval transport ship

Akio Tosa points to the site of the 1945 sinking of a Japanese naval transport ship in Maizuru, Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, on Aug. 2, 2015. He was involved in rescue work following the accident in which the Ukishima Maru carrying Korean laborers and their families from Japan to the Korean port of Busan following the end of World War II apparently hit a U.S. naval mine in Maizuru Bay and sank on Aug. 24, 1945, killing some 550 people. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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