Japanese families commemorate victims of battles on Pacific islands

Japanese families commemorate victims of battles on Pacific islands

SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands - Members of Japanese families who survived battles on Pacific islands during World War II lay flowers and foods in commemoration of lost members of their families in a ceremony on Saipan on June 1. Participants said this will be their last such meeting on the western Pacific islan due to their advanced ages.

  • Product Code
  • ILEA001109355
  • Registered date
  • 2005/6/01 00:00:00
  • Credit
  • Kyodo / Kyodo News Images
  • Media source
  • 2005 Kyodo News
  • Media size
  • 1864 × 1228 pixel
  • Resolution
  • dpi
  • Deployment size
  • 883.87(KB)*
  • Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos
    80th A-bomb anniversary

    80th A-bomb anniversary

    A woman throws a flower into the sea during a ceremony on the Pacific island of Tinian on Aug. 6, 2025, to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The island, part of the U.S. territory of the Northern Mariana Islands, was the launching point for the U.S. bombers that dropped the bombs on the Japanese cities.
      80th A-bomb anniversary

      80th A-bomb anniversary

      Tinian Mayor Edwin Aldan delivers a speech during a ceremony on the Pacific island of Tinian on Aug. 6, 2025, to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The island, part of the U.S. territory of the Northern Mariana Islands, served as the launching point for the U.S. bombers that dropped the bombs on the Japanese cities.
        80th A-bomb anniversary

        80th A-bomb anniversary

        A ceremony is held on the Pacific island of Tinian on Aug. 6, 2025, to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with a model of the "Little Boy" bomb on Hiroshima on display. The island, part of the U.S. territory of the Northern Mariana Islands, was the launching point for the U.S. bombers that dropped the bombs on the Japanese cities.
          80th A-bomb anniversary

          80th A-bomb anniversary

          Tinian Mayor Edwin Aldan (L) offers a wreath during a ceremony on the Pacific island of Tinian on Aug. 6, 2025, to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The island, part of the U.S. territory of the Northern Mariana Islands, was the launching point for the U.S. bombers that dropped the bombs on the Japanese cities.
            80th A-bomb anniversary

            80th A-bomb anniversary

            Japanese Consul to Saipan Akiko Tejima delivers a speech during a ceremony on the Pacific island of Tinian on Aug. 6, 2025, to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The island, part of the U.S. territory of the Northern Mariana Islands, served as the launching point for the U.S. bombers that dropped the bombs on the Japanese cities.
              80th A-bomb anniversary

              80th A-bomb anniversary

              Tinian Mayor Edwin Aldan (L) offers a wreath during a ceremony on the Pacific island of Tinian on Aug. 6, 2025, to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The island, part of the U.S. territory of the Northern Mariana Islands, was the launching point for the U.S. bombers that dropped the bombs on the Japanese cities.
                80th anniversary of WWII ground battle in Okinawa

                80th anniversary of WWII ground battle in Okinawa

                Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is pictured after laying flowers during a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Okinawa in World War II, held at the Peace Memorial Park in Itoman on the southern Japanese island on June 23, 2025.
                  Memorial unveiled in Wales for sunken Japanese ship victims

                  Memorial unveiled in Wales for sunken Japanese ship victims

                  Yoshiko Nakamura (C) offers flowers to a new memorial dedicated to those who died in the sinking of the Japanese merchant ship Hirano Maru in the final days of World War I during an unveiling ceremony in Angle, western Wales, Oct. 4, 2018. Nakamura's grandfather, who was an officer of the old Imperial Japanese Navy, died in the attack by a German submarine in the Irish Sea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
                    Japanese visitors to Russian-held islands

                    Japanese visitors to Russian-held islands

                    Japanese participants on a visa-free trip visit a sports facility on Kunashiri Island on Aug. 24, 2018, that opened the previous year. Soviet troops seized Kunashiri and three other islands at the end of World War II and the Russian government has allowed a limited number of Japanese to make visa-free visits to the area. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
                      Memorial to victims of ship sunk by U.S.

                      Memorial to victims of ship sunk by U.S.

                      NAHA, Japan - Emperor Akihito (L) and Empress Michiko offer bouquets of flowers in front of a cenotaph for the victims of the 1944 Tsushima Maru incident, in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on June 27, 2014. Over 1,400 people, half of them school children, were killed following a U.S. submarine torpedo attack on a Japanese ship during World War II. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)