Memorial to victims of ship sunk by U.S.

Memorial to victims of ship sunk by U.S.

NAHA, Japan - Emperor Akihito (C) and Empress Michiko (R) look at photos of the victims of the 1944 Tsushima Maru incident, on display at the Tsushima Maru Memorial Museum in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on June 27, 2014. Over 1,400 people, half of them school children, were killed following a U.S. submarine torpedo attack on a Japanese ship during World War II. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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