Japanese teacher keeps alive
memories of atrocities

Story and photography by Stephen J. Thorne
For three decades, now-retired schoolteacher Tamaki Matsuoka has waged a campaign to bring
truth and reconciliation to the story of Japanese atrocities during the Second World War.

At the risk of her livelihood and personal safety, the woman the Chinese have dubbed The Conscience of Japan has interviewed some 250 Japanese veterans and more than 300 survivors of the Nanking Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanking, one of the most notorious episodes of the Second Sino-Japaneses War, from 1937 to 1945. Matsuoka was recently in Toronto to address members of the Chinese-Canadian community and granted Legion Magazine this rare interview.
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The last PoW

Story by Don Gillmor
On Dec. 5, 1952, Andrew Robert MacKenzie was flying over North Korea
in his F-86 Sabre jet when he experienced hydraulic problems. He was at
42,000 feet, in a firefight with enemy MiG jets when he was hit.
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December 16, 1941

HMCS Calgary is commissioned in Sorel, Que.

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