Honolulu newspapers (24 Oct 94, Honolulu Star Bulletin) carried a New York
Times story datelined Winter Park, Florida.  The story tells about a
bronze statue of Kinjiro Ninomiya (described as a Japanese Horatio Alger)
now held at Rollins College.  The statue is described as "taken" from
Okinawa by an American in 1946 during or just-after Battle of Okinawa. The
American officer who took it, then donated it to the college. An Okinawan
group is asking for the return of the statue.  The college is refusing. I
would like to here from Museum people in Florida with DIRECT knowledge of
the events involved. It is my experience that news stories so compress
information that what comes out in the news, often is not quite what is
happening.
 
 
 
 
 
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