Okinawa divers pray for soul of WWII suicide fighter pilot

Okinawa divers pray for soul of WWII suicide fighter pilot

Takeshi Sugiura (foreground) and another diver place flowers on the engine of what appears to be a Japanese World War II suicide fighter plane and pray for the soul of its pilot at a depth of 40 meters in the sea 3 km off Kouri, an island in Okinawa Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 15, 2015, the 70th anniversary of the war's end. ==Kyodo

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