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TsukuBlog A Local Perspective on Life in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. All Doors are Open, as the Old Town of Makabe gets DOLLED UP for its annual HINA DOLL FESTIVAL (真壁の雛祭り) -until March 3rd 7 February, 2020 Nearly one hundred of the old houses and shops (including this deliciously rustic book store) will be open to the public with antique Hina Dolls and other heirlooms on display as part of the Hina Matsuri Festival in Makabe, Sakuragawa City ( just north of Tsukuba)- till March 3rd...

Residents detained at an internment camp in Yomitan, Okinawa, on April 4, 1945 (Provided by Okinawa Prefectural Archives) Even 75 years later, Yoneko Uehara can still hear her classmate disobeying an officials order to kill herself while facing enemy forces near the end of World War II. The student, whom she remembers only as Tomiko, snatched a hand grenade away from the medical team head and shouted, “If you really want to die, you should do so alone. I do not want to die.” During the Pa...