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The names of the deceased are often but not always engraved on the front of the monument. When a married person dies before his or her spouse, the name of the spouse may also be engraved on the stone, with the letters painted red. After the death and the burial of the spouse, the red ink is removed from the stone.
The Japan War-Bereaved Families Association (日本遺族会, nippon izokukai) is an association in Japan that was set up to represent the interests of relatives of deceased war veterans in the Second World War. Its headquarters are in Kudanminami, Tokyo. The group supports visits to Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo to pay respects to Japan's war dead.
The first ceremony, held on May 2, 1952. Shūsen-kinenbi (Japanese: 終戦記念日, lit. "memorial day for the end of the war") or Haisen-kinennbi (Japanese: 敗戦記念日, "surrender memorial day") [1] also written as shūsen-no-hi (Japanese: 終戦の日) or haisen-no-hi (Japanese: 敗戦の日) [2] [1] is an informal reference used by the public, for August 15 and related to the ...
Guests paying respect to the deceased at a Japanese funeral. In a traditional Buddhist funeral in Japan, it is customary for the guests to mourn the deceased by burning powdered incense (お焼香, O-shōkō), once during the wake (通夜, Tsuya) and later again during the farewell ceremony (告別式, Kokubetsu-shiki).
The Japanese language makes use of a system of honorific speech, called keishō (敬称), which includes honorific suffixes and prefixes when talking to, or referring to others in a conversation. Suffixes are often gender-specific at the end of names, while prefixes are attached to the beginning of many nouns.
This is a list of Japanese anniversaries and memorial days or kinenbi (記念日). Many dates have been selected because of a special relationship with the anniversary, but some are the product of Japanese wordplay (語呂合わせ, goroawase). These are listed by month in date order. Those excluded from the list are as follows:
Serving in the U.S. military can be both exhilarating and terrifying for military families, particularly if their loved one is sent to an area of combat or into other dangerous situations. While ...
Japanese Army and Navy personnel killed by enemy action during the Second World War, (1937-1945) Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.