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08/19/2026

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A 12-year-old sixth-grader from Geoje, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea, has won the top honor at the 2026 Youth Invention Festival for creating a smartphone grip that can transform into an emergency breathing aid during fires.

Kim Ji On developed the idea after learning how smoke and toxic gases can incapacitate people before flames reach them. With help from her teachers, she designed the grip with activated carbon fiber and a nonwoven filter to reduce exposure to harmful gases and fine particles.

Her invention earned the Presidential Award, beating entries from older middle and high school students. She plans to donate her ₩3 million prize to people in developing countries. Of 6,959 entries, only 183 received honors.

07/31/2026

Two elderly Japanese immigrants were murdered during a forced march to a prison camp. It happened in the United States of America.

On July 27, 1942, Hirota Isomura and Toshio Kobata were among hundreds of Japanese immigrants being transferred to Camp Lordsburg, a military internment camp operated by the U.S. Army in New Mexico.

After a long train journey, the prisoners were ordered to march several miles to the camp in the middle of the night. Isomura and Kobata, both in their late-50s and poor health, fell behind.

Frustrated, Army Private Clarence Burleson fired at close range, killing both men.

The killings triggered a military investigation that uncovered far more than a single act of violence. Authorities found that Japanese internees at Lordsburg had been subjected to treatment that violated the Geneva Convention. The Army ultimately forced the camp’s commander Colonel Clyde Lundy into retirement, shut down the internment operation and transferred the remaining prisoners to other camps.

Burleson was convicted of manslaughter, but the Lordsburg Killings soon faded from public memory.

Today, they remain one of the least-known tragedies of America’s wartime incarceration of Japanese immigrants.

Learn more at:
quietamericans.com/lordsburg-killings

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