Kamikaze pilot's last diary on display

Kamikaze pilot's last diary on display

FUKUOKA, Japan - The last diary written by 17-year-old kamikaze pilot Yukio Araki is shown in this file photo taken on Oct. 9, 2014, at the Bansei Tokko Peace Museum in Minamisatsuma, Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan. Araki went on a suicide mission on May 27, 1945, a week after the diary was written.

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