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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.
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 ...
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.
Yasukuni Shrine (靖国神社 or 靖國神社, Yasukuni Jinja, lit. ' Peaceful Country Shrine ') is a Shinto shrine located in Chiyoda, Tokyo.It was founded by Emperor Meiji in June 1869 and commemorates those who died in service of Japan, from the Boshin War of 1868–1869, to the two Sino-Japanese Wars, 1894–1895 and 1937–1945 respectively, and the First Indochina War of 1946–1954 ...
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 "Japanese military personnel of World War II" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Cemetery in Comilla District, Chittagong Division and other locations; Search and collect the remains project learned 43 tombs are Japanese, searching since 2014. Bangladesh government granted permission to Japan for the collection of remains of war dead in July 2024, then the first collection from tomb of Cemetery in Comilla District to be scheduled for 24 war dead remains in November 2024.
The Ryōzen Kannon (霊山観音) is a war memorial commemorating the dead of the Pacific War located in Eastern Kyoto. [1] The concrete and steel statue of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara (Kannon) was built by Hirosuke Ishikawa (founder of Teisan Kanko Bus Co., Ltd.) and unveiled on 8 June 1955. The statue is 24 m (80 ft) high and weighs ...