FEATURE: Memorial forging bonds between Japanese town, WWII pilot's family

A memorial dedicated to a Canadian naval pilot who died while leading an air raid against Japan in the waning days of World War II stands in the northeastern town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, one of the communities most severely damaged in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.There are, in fact, two memorials erected in the Pacific coast town -- one commemorating the area's Japanese war dead and the other Lt. Robert Hampton Gray, a recipient of the Victoria Cross for whom a cenotaph was erected on the shores of Onagawa Bay.Today, there is hope that a friendship forged between the two countries…READ FULL ARTICLE