While the sinking of the Tsushima Maru by a U.S. submarine during World War II is etched in Japan's collective memory due to the many children and civilian adults who died, a similar tragedy befell another, lesser-known evacuation boat not long after.In August 1944, the Tsushima Maru was torpedoed close to the Tokara Islands in southwestern Japan en route to Nagasaki from Okinawa while complying with a government evacuation order. A little over a month later, the Bushu Maru was sunk off the same island chain as the Japanese Empire was readying for an invasion of the nearby Ryukyu Islands by…READ FULL ARTICLE
