Chinese table tennis players Fan Zhendong and Sun Yingsha both unfollowed Japanese table tennis player Hayata today (Aug. 14) after Hina Hayata contended that she wanted to visit Chiran Peace Museum for Kamikaze Pilots, the former airbase on the Satsuma Peninsula of Kagoshima, Japan, which served as the departure point for hundreds of Special Attack or kamikaze sorties during World War II.
When asked where she wanted to go after the Olympics in the press conference held on Aug. 13, she said, "I want to go to Anpanman Children's Museum and Chiran Peace Museum for Kamikaze Pilots. Being alive with the opportunity to play table tennis cannot be taken for granted."
Chiran Peace Museum for Kamikaze Pilots, located on the Satsuma Peninsula of Kagoshima, has a collection of about 14,000 pieces of the "relics" of members of Kamikaze, part of the Japanese Special Attack Units of military aviators who flew suicide attacks for the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II, which will serve as the materials of the application for Memory of the World Programme, according to Xinhua News Agency.
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