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A young student comes to visit the observation point on Hokkaido’s northern coast. From here, you can see the former Japanese islands of the Northern Territories (as drawn on the map on the pavement).
For 2,000 years Japan had never been defeated. There was no word for "surrender" in the Japanese dictionary. And although the Japanese government never believed it could defeat the United States, it ...