Man looks at cenotaph for 131 fishermen killed in WWII air strikes

Fisherman Masakazu Yabuki looks at a cenotaph on Feb. 13, 2015, at a Buddhist temple in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, dedicated to 131 fishermen killed by U.S. air strikes on about 30 fishing boats in Pacific waters off nearby Ibaraki Prefecture on Feb. 25, 1945. "I thought then that war should never happen again," he said. (Photo by Seiji Nakamura) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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