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Kamikaze pilot's watch kept as memento

FUKUOKA, Japan - A watch given to kamikaze pilot Yukio Araki by Tachiarai Army Flight School in Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, upon graduation and handed to his father before his suicide mission in May 1945 is shown in this file photo taken on Oct. 9, 2014. The watch is kept at the Bansei Tokko Peace Museum in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan.

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WWII suicide pilot's last postcard to mother

TOKYO, Japan - The last postcard sent by World War II pilot Masatatsu Yamashita to his mother before he was killed on a suicide mission is displayed along with a notebook kept by her at the Tachiarai Peace Memorial Museum in Chikuzen, Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, as seen in this file photo taken on May 25, 2014.

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WWII suicide pilot's brother looks at mementos

TOKYO, Japan - Akira Yamashita looks at mementos of his elder brother Masatatsu, a World War II pilot killed on a suicide mission, exhibited at the Tachiarai Peace Memorial Museum in Chikuzen, Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, in this file photo taken on May 25, 2014.

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WWII Japanese soldier's flag brought back to wife

FUKUOKA, Japan - A Rising Sun flag, carried by former Japanese Imperial Army soldier Tokujiro Ogura during World War II, is given back to his wife Fumi (L) by Paul Parrott (C), a former British soldier's grandson, at the Tachiarai Peace Memorial Museum in Chikuzen, Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on April 21, 2014.

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Textbooks used at Tachiarai flying school for WWII pilots

These are textbooks used at the Imperial Japanese Army's Tachiarai flying school in Fukuoka Prefecture, photographed on July 12, 2015, at a museum in Minamisatsuma, Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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WWII Japanese suicide attack unit pilot's emblem

This is the emblem of the No. 72 "Shinbutai" squadron which Japanese suicide attack unit pilot Yukio Araki wore on the left sleeve of his flight suit, photographed at Tachiarai Peace Memorial Museum in the town of Chikuzen, Fukuoka Prefecture, on July 17, 2015. Araki sent the emblem to his father before his flight mission in World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kamikaze pilot's watch kept as memento

FUKUOKA, Japan - A watch given to kamikaze pilot Yukio Araki by Tachiarai Army Flight School in Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, upon graduation and handed to his father before his suicide mission in May 1945 is shown in this file photo taken on Oct. 9, 2014. The watch is kept at the Bansei Tokko Peace Museum in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan. (Kyodo)

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WWII suicide pilot's brother looks at mementos

TOKYO, Japan - Akira Yamashita looks at mementos of his elder brother Masatatsu, a World War II pilot killed on a suicide mission, exhibited at the Tachiarai Peace Memorial Museum in Chikuzen, Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, in this file photo taken on May 25, 2014. (Kyodo)

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WWII suicide pilot's last postcard to mother

TOKYO, Japan - The last postcard sent by World War II pilot Masatatsu Yamashita to his mother before he was killed on a suicide mission is displayed along with a notebook kept by her at the Tachiarai Peace Memorial Museum in Chikuzen, Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, as seen in this file photo taken on May 25, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Kamikaze mission survivor

Kunitake Toriya, who was assigned to an Imperial Japanese Army kamikaze suicide mission during World War II, looks at photos of his flight school classmates killed in the mission at Tachiarai Peace Memorial Museum in Chikukzen, Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 3, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kamikaze mission survivor

Kunitake Toriya, who was assigned to an Imperial Japanese Army kamikaze suicide mission during World War II, looks at photos of his flight school classmates killed in the mission at Tachiarai Peace Memorial Museum in Chikukzen, Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 3, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Heavy rain in southwestern Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the town of Tachiarai in Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, after heavy rain on July 21, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Heavy rain in southwestern Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the town of Tachiarai in Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, after heavy rain on July 21, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Heavy rain in southwestern Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the town of Tachiarai in Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, after heavy rain on July 21, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Heavy rain in southwestern Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows flooded parking lots in Tachiarai in Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, after heavy rain on July 21, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Heavy rain in southwestern Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows flooded parking lots in Tachiarai in Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, after heavy rain on July 21, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Heavy rain in southwestern Japan

The Tachiarai River is swollen and rice fields and roads are submerged in Tachiarai in Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, due to heavy rain on July 21, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Heavy rain in southwestern Japan

A road in Tachiarai in Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, is submerged as a river is swollen due to heavy rain on July 21, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Heavy rain in southwestern Japan

A road in Tachiarai in Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, is submerged due to heavy rain on July 21, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Heavy rain in southwestern Japan

Cars are overturned in rice fields in Tachiarai in Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, due to flooding from the Tachiarai River in Fukuoka Prefecture on July 21, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Heavy rain in southwestern Japan

Cars are overturned in rice fields in Tachiarai in Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, due to flooding from the Tachiarai River in Fukuoka Prefecture on July 21, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo