Juanita Cruz was only 8 years old when she saw her mother being raped by Japanese soldiers. At 10, she saw her 5-year-old brother killed.

Cruz is a 70-year-old Chamorro, a native of the Mariana Islands, and one of the few witnesses still alive to tell of the tragedies that occurred in Guam under Japan's rule from 1941 to 1944 during World War II.

For the first time in her life, Cruz came to Japan to talk about her experiences at a meeting in Tokyo hosted by Asia Forum on Friday.