The Japan Times |
Mourners mark WWII Sakhalin post office suicides
The Japan Times 20, 1945, at a post office in Maoka (modern-day Kholmsk, Russia) in Japanese-controlled Sakhalin, then called Karafuto, when Soviet forces seized the town. They were the members of a 12-person team of female phone operators who took cyanide because … |
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