Rally calling for U.N. world orphans day

Rally calling for U.N. world orphans day

People, including Yoon Kee (far R), the eldest son of Chizuko Tauchi, who is known as the "Japanese mother of Korean orphans," hold a rally in New York on Oct. 15, 2018, calling on the United Nations to enact a world orphans day. The initiative began in honor of the wishes of Tauchi, who raised about 3,000 orphans on the Korean Peninsula during and after World War II (Kyodo). ==Kyodo

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