SWORD GOES HOME
(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) TOKYO, May 20 An official of Yasukum Shrine in Tokyo today received a Japanese warrior’s sword from a New Zealander who felt a “heavy weight on his conscience.”
The captain of a Japanese freighter delivered the sword to be enshrined in Yasukum —a memorial to about 2.400.000 Japanese, including nurses, killed in war since 1853. The shrine was established in 18&). The New Zealander took the sword from a Japanese officer he killed in Hong Kong at the end of World War H. It was delivered to Mr Sadao Sakamoto, chief of the general affairs section of the shrine, aboard the freighter.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30137, 22 May 1963, Page 16
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