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Japanese WWII Survivor Wants UNESCO Certification for Kamikaze Letters

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Japanese WWII Survivor Wants UNESCO Certification for Kamikaze Letters

Our Tokyo editors talk about controversial letters penned by Kamikaze pilots and more in this week’s podcast.

Japanese WWII Survivor Wants UNESCO Certification for Kamikaze Letters
Credit: Kamikaze via Shutterstock

This week, The Diplomat’s J.T. Quigley and Angela Erika Kubo discuss an elderly Japanese man’s push to have letters written by fallen Kamikaze pilots recognized by UNESCO, the Mt. Gox Bitcoin fiasco and a recent streak of vandalism directed at public library copies of Anne Frank’s Diary.

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