He went back to record the meltdown of Chernobyl, and his friends say he just disappeared. This man was trying to record the disaster, but it was still the Soviet Union, and I'm sure many of them did not want him doing this.

This was the wisdom of a woman with little education. It gave me carte blanche in a house with no books.

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They were among the few surviving comfort women -- an estimated 90 percent had been killed while imprisoned. During that emotional lecture I thought of the girl who had disappeared in Shanghai and wanted to explore the possibility that this might have been her fate.

One of the most shameful, unacknowledged horrors of the war in the Pacific was the kidnapping of hundreds of thousands of women and girls, some as young as 10 years old, of all nationalities, by the Japanese armies.

We don't have enough Hawaiian voices. I go to the universities, schools, even grade schools and I beg them to write down their family stories. We're such an oral society that if we don't they will disappear.