Memorial service on Shumshu Island
Photo taken July 19, 2017, shows a helmet of a Japanese soldier left behind on Shumshu Island, at the northeastern end of the Kurils, where a fierce battle took place between Japan and the-then Soviet Union shortly after Japan's surrender in World War II. Some 20 people from Japan visited on the same day to hold a memorial service for the Japanese soldiers who died. (Kyodo)
==Kyodo
- Product Code
- ILEA000112830
- Registered date
- 2017/7/19 23:33:52
- Credit
- Kyodo / Kyodo News Images
- Media source
- 2017 Kyodo News
- Media size
- 2741 × 3968 pixel
- Deployment size
- 1.01(MB)*
*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.