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3 unusual facts about Ryō Kurusu


Ryō Kurusu

In 1944, he was transferred to Tama Airfield (now Yokota Air Base) in Fussa, Tokyo.

Kurusu was born on January 8, 1919 in Chicago, Illinois, United States, to Saburō Kurusu (a career diplomat) and Alice Jay Little (an American who adopted Japanese citizenship after their marriage in 1914) .

His father chose the following English inscription, by Herodotus, for Ryō's headstone: "In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons."



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