Keiko Tatsumi, 66, has made several trips to eastern Papua New Guinea, where fellow veterans say her father, Tatsuo, was last seen alive 62 years ago. The search also brought Tatsumi to grips with Japan's wartime past. Villagers angrily told her how Japanese troops murdered their relatives.
But after repeated visits they have become friends, she said.
"I just want to be where my father spent his final days," Tatsumi said. "I promised my father that I'll come back and look for him."
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