80 Years On: State Policy Victimized Manchuria Pioneers

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Nagano, Aug. 19 (Jiji Press)–Hiroyoshi Takizawa, who moved to Manchuria, in today’s northeastern China, at the age of 8 as part of a pioneer group, was forced to flee for about three weeks, after the former Soviet Union’s invasion. Along the way, he endured the harrowing ordeal of his father fatally shooting his younger brother and sister as part of a group suicide. “We were victims of nat…

Nagano, Aug. 19 (Jiji Press)–Hiroyoshi Takizawa, who moved to Manchuria, in today’s northeastern China, at the age of 8 as part of a pioneer group, was forced to flee for about three weeks, after the former Soviet Union’s invasion. Along the way, he endured the harrowing ordeal of his father fatally shooting his younger brother and sister as part of a group suicide. “We were victims of nat…