A Buddhist priest who was drafted by the Japanese military and endured horrendous conditions, including witnessing the deaths of many compatriots, while detained in a Soviet internment camp near the end of World War II died recently at 99 years of age.After being repatriated following the war, Shudo Yokoyama did not speak about this dark period of his life for several decades before deciding to open up when he saw the anguish of a Japanese woman who had lost her detainee husband in the war.But he was later stunned to learn what had happened in an earlier conflict -- a "forgotten war" that r…READ FULL ARTICLE
