Former WWII soldier recalls life on war island

Former WWII soldier recalls life on war island

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Hiroshi Iguchi talks about his experience as a solider of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II stationed on Okinoshima, one a cluster of four islands in the Inland Sea, off Wakayama, western Japan, in an interview in Kyoto on July 29, 2014. A gun battery and other military facilities were built on the island to counter foreign warships.

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