Memorial service held for Commonwealth POWs

YOKOHAMA, Japan - A memorial service for prisoners of war from the British Commonwealth who died at detention camps in Japan during World War II took place on Aug. 7 in Yokohama. About 100 people, including diplomats from Australia and New Zealand as well as Japanese students and citizens, attended the Christian service at the British Commonwealth War Cemetery in the city's Hodogaya Ward.

Sample
PDF Preview

Product Code
ILEA001079060

Registered date
1999/8/07 00:00:00

Credit
Kyodo / Kyodo News Images

Media source
1999 Kyodo News

Media size
1864 × 1713 pixel

Resolution
dpi

Deployment size
1.05(MB)*

Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos

Memorial service for Japan's war dead

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida lays flowers at the Chidorigafuchi National Cemetery in Tokyo during a memorial service to commemorate unidentified Japanese nationals who died overseas during World War II on Aug. 15, 2023, the 78th anniversary of Japan's surrender in the war.

Memorial service for Japan's war dead

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida bows at the Chidorigafuchi National Cemetery in Tokyo during a memorial service to commemorate unidentified Japanese nationals who died overseas during World War II on Aug. 15, 2023, the 78th anniversary of Japan's surrender in the war.

Memorial service for Japan's war dead

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida prepares to lay flowers at the Chidorigafuchi National Cemetery in Tokyo during a memorial service to commemorate unidentified Japanese nationals who died overseas during World War II on Aug. 15, 2023, the 78th anniversary of Japan's surrender in the war.

77th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida carries a wreath at the Peace Park in Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 2022, during a ceremony marking the 77th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the southwestern Japan city in the closing days of World War II.

77th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (R) carries a wreath at the Peace Park in Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 2022, during a ceremony marking the 77th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the southwestern Japan city in the closing days of World War II.

Japan's wartime foreign minister mulled ending China war

TOKYO, Japan - A page from among classified telegrams circulated among Japanese diplomats during World War II is photographed on Aug. 14, 2014. The documents newly discovered by a relative of a former Japanese ambassador showed that then Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu in May 1944 considered asking the Soviet Union to broker an agreement to end war with China.

Japan lawmaker pushes for WW II disclosure

LOS ANGELES, United States - Ko Tanaka (L), a Japanese opposition lawmaker, sits with Rabbi Cooper (C), associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, at a conference held in Los Angeles on Aug. 16. The meeting was attended by U.S. activists, politicians and former prisoners of war (POWs). ''The Japanese people have not demanded their Japanese government to clarify the facts of World War II and seem willing to move ahead to the next century without doing so,'' Tanaka said.

Service held for Commonwealth POWs who died in Japan

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Some 90 people, including diplomats from Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand as well as a group of Japanese citizens, hold a service Aug. 5 for Commonwealth soldiers who died in detention in Japan during World War II, at the British Commonwealth War Cemetery in Yokohama. About 1,800 people are buried in the cemetery.

Exhibition honors diplomats who saved Jews from Nazis

NEW YORK, United States - A visitor looks at photos dating from the Holocaust at an exhibition entitled, ''Visas for Life: the Righteous Diplomats,'' that opened at the United Nations in New York on April 3. The exhibit honors some 80 diplomats from more than 20 countries who saved hundreds of thousands of Jews from Nazi persecution during World War II by issuing them visas. On the far left is the photo of Chiune Sugihara, a former Japanese consul who served in Lithuania and is credited with saving the lives of about 6,000 Jews.