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Kazuko was living alone with her second husband, Kikuichiro, on tiny (2 mi. by 5 mi.) Anatahan Island in the Marianas when the survivors of three bombed Japanese ships swam ashore in 1945. For three years the couple lived with the castaways, until one day Kazuko's husband was murdered. "I felt lonely," says Kazuko, and she took up with one of the castaways. After 20 days of bliss, her lover was drowned. She went to live with another, the man who had killed her husband. "At first I repelled him coldly, but a weak woman is no match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Island Paradise | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

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