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- GRAPEVINE, Page 17FOR THE RECORDBy JANICE CASTRO
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- In every culture, some atrocities linger generation after
- generation, needing closure. Nearly 400 years after the fact,
- Japan is preparing to return 20,000 noses that its army
- amputated from Korean soldiers and civilians. The noses, as well
- as the heads of Korean generals, were taken as spoils of war
- during an invasion in 1597. Protected until now in a special
- memorial, they will probably be buried in the Cholla province
- of South Korea. That region suffered the worst of the
- long-remembered brutalities.
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