WWII survivor keeps wartime memory alive with ink drawings

Kazuo Inamura explains his "sumie" black-ink drawing of a girl in Sapporo in the northernmost Japanese prefecture of Hokkaido on Aug. 14, 2015. The girl died along with about 1,700 others when Soviet submarines attacked three ships carrying Japanese evacuees from the Russian Far East island of Sakhalin on Aug. 22, 1945. Inamura survived the tragedy. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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