Yoi Hasegawa still remembers when armed Soviet soldiers burst into her house just days after Japan’s World War II surrender and tried to drag away her teenaged sister. At gunpoint, her father shielded his daughters at their home on an island north of Japan’s Hokkaido. “Only after y...
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