Michiko Tanaka, a 71-year-old from Hokkaido, says she comes here almost every summer to pray for the soul of her uncle, who starved to death on Woleai Atoll in the Pacific islands, now part of Micronesia, in 1944 while fighting for Japan.
“His family received only the tip of what was claimed to be his little finger as his remains, so I believe the rest of his body is here,” she said.
