80 Years On: Woman Who Escaped Death on Tinian Island Pleads for Peace

HEADLINES

Nakagusuku, Okinawa Pref., Aug. 15 (Jiji Press)–In 1944, at the height of the fighting on Tinian Island during World War II, schoolgirl Mitsuko Arakaki and her family resolved to die rather than be killed. At the last moment, fear drove her to flee–an impulse that ultimately saved her family. Having watched B-29 bombers take to the sky from Tinian, the same island from which the aircra…

Nakagusuku, Okinawa Pref., Aug. 15 (Jiji Press)–In 1944, at the height of the fighting on Tinian Island during World War II, schoolgirl Mitsuko Arakaki and her family resolved to die rather than be killed. At the last moment, fear drove her to flee–an impulse that ultimately saved her family. Having watched B-29 bombers take to the sky from Tinian, the same island from which the aircra…