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Mitsubishi Grandmothers

Gwangju News November 1, 2011

This is the story of Yang Kum-deok, one of many Korean middle-schoolers taken during the 1940s to work in the Mitsubishi factories in Japan. What was presented to be the opportunity of a lifetime soon tragically turned into a living nightmare for her and many others, in which the battle for justice still rages on to this day.

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