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The Himeyuri students (ひめゆり学徒隊, Himeyuri Gakutotai, Lily Princesses Student Corps), sometimes called "Lily Corps" in English, was a group of 222 students and 18 teachers of the Okinawa Daiichi (First) Girls' High School [] and Okinawa Shihan Women's School [] formed into a nursing unit for the Imperial Japanese Army during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945.
Pages in category "World War II memorials in Japan" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. ... National Memorial Service for War Dead; R.
Chidorigafuchi National Cemetery (千鳥ケ淵戦没者墓苑, Chidorigafuchi Senbotsusha Boen) is a national Japanese cemetery and memorial for 352,297 unidentified war dead of the Second World War, located near the inner moat of the Imperial Palace and Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, Japan.
It was built on the site of a former comfort station run by the invading Japanese troops during World War II. [267] The memorial hall stands next to the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders. In June 2016, the Research Center for Chinese Comfort Women was established at Shanghai Normal University. [268]
The National Memorial Service for War Dead (全国戦没者追悼式, Zenkoku Senbotsusha Tsuitōshiki') is an official, secular ceremony conducted annually on August 15 by the Japanese government at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, Japan. The ceremony is held to commemorate the victims of World War II. The first memorial ceremony was held on May 2 ...
The Statue of Peace (Korean: 평화의 소녀상; RR: Pyeonghwaui sonyeosang; Japanese: 平和の少女像, Heiwano shōjo-zō), often shortened to Sonyeosang in Korean or Shōjo-zō in Japanese (literally "statue of girl") [1] and sometimes called the Comfort Woman Statue (慰安婦像, Ianfu-zō), [2] is a symbol of the victims of sexual slavery, known euphemistically as comfort women, by ...
Japanese women involved in warfare. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. ...
Memorial to the Unknown Soldier of World War II. The shrine beneath the statue contains an image of Bodhisattva Ekādaśamukha and images of the god of wind and god of thunder. Memorial tablets of 2 million Japanese who died in World War II are also stored here. Four times a day services are conducted in their memory.