Prime Minister Abe offers flowers at Chidorigafuchi

Prime Minister Abe offers flowers at Chidorigafuchi

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe offers flowers at the Chidorigafuchi National Cemetery in Tokyo on Aug. 15, the 62nd anniversary of the end of World War II. The cemetery, built by the state in 1959, is dedicated to unknown soldiers who died abroad in World War II.

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