On the 80th anniversary of the end of the war on the 15th, bereaved families in Hokkaido reflected on the weight of those eight decades. Kikuo Sakaguchi (84) from Atsubetsu Ward, Sapporo, lost his father on the New Guinea front on August 11, 1945, just four days before the war ended. “If the war had ended sooner, I might have met my father. I hope we can build a society where no more war orphans are created,” he said…
