Tokuro Inokuma, 86, a former Imperial Japanese Army soldier, looks on during an interview with Reuters at his home in Yokosuka, south of Tokyo July 30, 2014. REUTERS/Yuya Shino
TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokuro Inokuma, a former Imperial Japanese Army soldier, got his first taste of the horrors of war in 1945 when he scrambled to gather up the scattered limbs of his fellow servicemen, blown apart by a U.S. air raid in Japan. He was 16.
One of a dwindling number of World War Two veterans, Inokuma now finds troubling echoes in Tokyo's policy shift away from the pacifist ideals adhered to after 1945.
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