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Descendant of last native leader of Alaska island demands Japanese reparations for 1942 invasion
Helena Pagano’s great-grandfather was the last Alaska Native chief of a remote island in the Bering Sea, closer to Russia ...
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Descendant of last Native leader of Attu Island demands Japanese reparations for 1942 invasion
Japan invaded the most westerly of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands and took 41 residents as prisoners of war. Twenty-two of them ...
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Descendant of last native leader of Alaska island demands Japanese reparations for 1942 invasion
Japan had set up funds for the women in 1995 and 2015 as exceptions. Pagano says the 1951 treaty would not bar additional restitution. The island is part of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife ...