Memorial service for WWII female post office workers

Memorial service for WWII female post office workers

SAPPORO, Japan - Chieko Kuriyama speaks in front of the photos of her nine former colleagues at a post office in Maoka (currently Kholmsk in Sakhalin, Russia) during a memorial service held for them in Wakkanai on the northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Aug. 8, 2014. Working as telephone exchange operators, the nine young Japanese women committed suicide by taking poison on the same date in 1945 when Russian forces invaded the town. (Photo by Daisuke Suzuki)

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