Ceremony held on Iwoto Island in memory of WWII war dead

Ceremony held on Iwoto Island in memory of WWII war dead

Tokyo Gov. Yoichi Masuzoe (C) joins other guests including Junko Ikeda (R), representative for relatives of those who died on Iwojima in World War II, during a memorial service for the war dead on Iwoto Island on Oct. 15, 2015. More than 20,000 Japanese soldiers died on the island, now called Iwoto, in one of the fiercest battles toward the end of WWII. (Pool photo by Mainichi Shimbun)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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