Kamikaze pilots' mementos for world memory

Kamikaze pilots' mementos for world memory

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Kanpei Shimoide, mayor of Minamikyushu in Kagoshima Prefecture, meets reporters at Chiran Peace Museum in the city on Feb. 4, 2014, about the municipal government's imminent filing to have kamikaze suicide pilots' mementos registered in the UNESCO Memory of the World program.

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