Japan Marks War’s End

[Devildogg4ever]

Japan has marked the 58th anniversary of the end of World War Two with a Tokyo memorial service for the more than 3.1 million civilians and soldiers who were killed.

More than 6,000 people, mostly relatives of those who died, attended the government-sponsored ceremony.

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said he would do his best to uphold Japan's pledge never to fight a war again. He also said Japan would do its best to contribute more to establishing a lasting global peace.

Emperor Akihito said he hopes the ravages of war will never again be repeated. He also expressed his condolences for the war dead and prayed for world peace and Japan's further development.

About 10 percent of those who attended the ceremony were over the age of 80. There were fewer widows of the war dead present at the ceremony and more children and grandchildren.

http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworldnews/region.php?id=66326&region=2

[Lock-n-Load]

:marine: To the keen observer every year Japan reveres her WW2 dead at the Yaka-kuni National Shrine, Nippon historians seem to have a blind eye to all the atrocities attributed to that brutal and beastial war machine of the 1930s and 1940s...their "Code of Busihdo"...to read their history books, that young Japan reads... hardly alludes there was a WW2 in her past...that is the inscrutable Japanese characteristic of memory loss...true, it is has been a quiet and peaceful 58 yrs between the USA and Japan...for all those history buffs, just review the "Victory at Sea" documentaries and get the true assessment to Japan's "Co-Prosperity Sphere in the Pacific" [Banzai] during the early 1940s...compare both documentaries and you tell me!! Semper Fidelis :marine: