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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => History => Topic started by: TomSea on January 04, 2020, 07:19:01 pm
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'The ghost of Manzanar': Japanese WW2 internee's body found in US
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Giichi Matsumura and his family were detained in Manzanar internment camp during World War Two
A skeleton found in California last October has been identified as a Japanese-American artist who was held in a World War Two internment camp.
Giichi Matsumura had gone on a hike with fellow internees from the Manzanar internment camp for people of Japanese ancestry when he died in August 1945.
He left the group to paint the scene in solitude when a freak storm hit.
Read more at: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50993884 (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50993884)