64 years -- now that’s snail mail
A postcard that a Japanese soldier mailed from Burma during World War II has reached a recipient in Japan 64 years later, said a university whose student helped deliver it.
Shizuo Nagano, 80, of the southwestern prefecture of Kochi, received the card Friday, a statement from Mukogawa Women’s University said.
The sender, Nobuchika Yamashita, died in the war in 1944. A U.S. soldier got the card in Nagasaki. It passed to his son, then to student Yuko Kojima, who met the son in Maui and spent two years looking for Nagano.
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