Memorial service for people who worked on WWII poison gas production

Memorial service for people who worked on WWII poison gas production

A memorial service is held on Okuno Island in the western Japan prefecture of Hiroshima on Oct. 15, 2020, for people who died from the aftereffects of working at the Imperial Japanese Army's poison gas manufacturing plant on the island during World War II.

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