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Tokyo Homes May Sit on World War II Mass Grave

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Yamaguchi Mari
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Tokyo - The Toyama No. 5 apartment block is quiet at midday - laundry flapping from balconies, old people taking an after-lunch stroll. But the building and its nearby park may be sitting on a gruesome World War II secret.

A wartime nurse has broken more than 60 years of silence to reveal her part in burying dozens, perhaps hundreds, of bodies there as American forces occupied the Japanese capital.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 4 , Issue 10 , October 2006 , e10
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