Memorial remembers suicides of 9 women before Soviet invasion

Memorial remembers suicides of 9 women before Soviet invasion

WAKKANAI, Japan - A memorial service is held in Wakkanai in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido on Aug. 20, 2014, for nine female postal office workers who killed themselves on the same day in 1945 in a town in the southern half of the Russian Far East island of Sakhalin, then controlled by Japan, in the face of an invasion by Soviet troops during the closing days of World War II. The town, then known as Maoka, is called Kholmsk today.

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