Memorial service for 3 sunken ships off Hokkaido after WWII

A memorial service is held before a cenotaph in Obira, northeastern Hokkaido, on Aug. 21, 2015, for about 1,700 victims in the 1945 sinking of three Japanese refugee transport ships by Soviet submarines near the northernmost Japanese main island a week after the end of World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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