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[Breaking News]Memorial ceremony for over 1,000 kamikaze pilots

MINAMIKYUSHU, Japan, May 5 Kyodo - A memorial ceremony is held in Minamikyushu in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Kagoshima on May 3, 2025, for 1,036 Imperial Japanese Army kamikaze pilots who died during the World War II Battle of Okinawa in 1945. (Kyodo)

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Memorial ceremony for over 1,000 kamikaze pilots

Relatives lay flowers during a memorial ceremony held in Minamikyushu in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Kagoshima on May 3, 2025, for 1,036 Imperial Japanese Army kamikaze pilots who died during the World War II Battle of Okinawa in 1945.

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Memorial ceremony for over 1,000 kamikaze pilots

A memorial ceremony is held in Minamikyushu in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Kagoshima on May 3, 2025, for 1,036 Imperial Japanese Army kamikaze pilots who died during the World War II Battle of Okinawa in 1945.

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City to file kamikaze pilots' mementos for world memory

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Kanpei Shimoide, mayor of Minamikyushu in Kagoshima Prefecture, shows an application form at Chiran Peace Museum in the city on Feb. 4, 2014, before filing to have kamikaze suicide pilots' mementos registered in the UNESCO Memory of the World program.

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Kamikaze pilots' mementos for world memory

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Kanpei Shimoide, mayor of Minamikyushu in Kagoshima Prefecture, meets reporters at Chiran Peace Museum in the city on Feb. 4, 2014, about the municipal government's imminent filing to have kamikaze suicide pilots' mementos registered in the UNESCO Memory of the World program.

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Memories of kamikaze pilots kept alive at peace museum

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photographs and diaries of kamikaze pilots dating from the final months of World War II are shown in this photo taken on Oct. 9, 2014, at the Bansei Tokko Peace Museum, built on the site of a former air base in Minamisatsuma, Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan.

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Filipino man continues to promote "nobility" of WWII kamikaze pilots

MABALACAT CITY, Philippines - This Oct. 25, 2014 photo shows the kamikaze monument erected at the former Mabalacat East Airfield in the province of Pampanga, north of Manila, from where Japanese suicide attackers took off during World War II. An 84-year-old Filipino man, Daniel Dizon, initiated construction of kamikaze monuments in the Philippines out of the belief Japan's kamikaze pilots were noble warriors who deserve to be honored.

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Filipino man continues to promote "nobility" of WWII kamikaze pilots

MABALACAT CITY, Philippines - This Oct. 25, 2014 photo shows the kamikaze monument erected at the former Mabalacat East Airfield in the province of Pampanga, north of Manila, from where Japanese suicide attackers took off during World War II. An 84-year-old Filipino man, Daniel Dizon, initiated construction of kamikaze monuments in the Philippines out of the belief Japan's kamikaze pilots were noble warriors who deserve to be honored.

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Filipino man continues to promote "nobility" of WWII kamikaze pilots

MABALACAT CITY, Philippines - This Oct. 25, 2014 photo shows a kamikaze marker erected at the former Mabalacat West Airfield in Pampanga province, north of Manila, where Japanese suicide attackers took off from during World War II. Daniel Dizon, an 84-year-old Filipino man, initiated construction of kamikaze markers in the Philippines out of the belief Japan's kamikaze pilots were noble warriors who deserve to be honored.

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Portraits of kamikaze pilots move visitors

CHIRAN, Japan - A girl stands silently July 29 in front of portraits of special attack unit, ''kamikaze'' suicide squad, pilots at the Chiran Tokko Heiwa Kaikan (Peace Museum) in the town of Chiran, Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan. Most of those World War II pilots died around age 20. The museum has 6,000 pieces war-related articles, including portraits and notes left behind by young pilots and soldiers.

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Visitors to museum for "kamikaze" suicide pilots listen to storyteller

A storyteller recounts the tragedy of "kamikaze" suicide attacks by young Japanese pilots during World War II on Aug. 7, 2015, at the Chiran Peace Museum in Minamikyushu, southwestern Japan. Chiran had an air base for kamikaze pilots during the war. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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"Kamikaze" pilot museum to seek again UNESCO listing as world memory

Kampei Shimoide, mayor of Minamikyushu, Kagoshima Prefecture, speaks during a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on May 13, 2015. He said the southwestern Japanese city will once again seek this year UNESCO recognition as a "Memory of the World" for a collection of materials related to World War II "kamikaze" suicide pilots kept at a peace museum in the city where their base was located during the war. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese mayor views suicide pilots' photos at U.S. memorial museum

Mayor Kanpei Shimoide of Minamikyushu, Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, looks at pictures of Japanese "kamikaze" pilots at the USS Battleship Missouri Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on April 11, 2015. He visited the ship for an exhibit of mementos left by the pilots on their suicide missions. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese visitors commemorate WWII suicide pilots in Pearl Harbor

Mayor Kanpei Shimoide (2nd from L) of Minamikyushu, Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, joins other compatriots in commemorating World War II "kamikaze" pilots at the USS Battleship Missouri Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on April 11, 2015. They visited the ship for an exhibit of mementos left by the pilots on their suicide missions. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tea tribute to ward dead in eastern Japan

Tea ceremony master Sen Genshitsu offers Japanese tea in Kasama, Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, on March 25, 2015, in tribute at a memorial for fallen kamikaze pilots of a local World War II naval air unit. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Filipino man continues to promote "nobility" of WWII kamikaze pilots

MABALACAT CITY, Philippines - This Oct. 25, 2014 photo shows the kamikaze monument erected at the former Mabalacat East Airfield in the province of Pampanga, north of Manila, from where Japanese suicide attackers took off during World War II. An 84-year-old Filipino man, Daniel Dizon, initiated construction of kamikaze monuments in the Philippines out of the belief Japan's kamikaze pilots were noble warriors who deserve to be honored. (Kyodo)

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Filipino man continues to promote "nobility" of WWII kamikaze pilots

ANGELES CITY, Philippines - Daniel Dizon, 84, talks to Kyodo News at the Kamikaze Museum within his home in Angeles City, Pampanga province, north of Manila, on Oct. 5, 2014. Dizon has long praised Japan's suicide attackers during World War II, initiating the construction of memorial monuments for them in the province amid criticisms from various sectors, especially families of war victims. (Kyodo)

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Kamikaze pilot monument in Philippines

Photo taken in September 2017 in Mabalacat in the Philippines shows a monument dedicated to World War II Japanese kamikaze pilots. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kamikaze pilot statue in Philippines

Photo taken in September 2017 in Mabalacat in the Philippines shows a statue symbolizing World War II Japanese kamikaze pilots. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Portraits of kamikaze pilots move visitors

CHIRAN, Japan - A girl stands silently July 29 in front of portraits of special attack unit, ''kamikaze'' suicide squad, pilots at the Chiran Tokko Heiwa Kaikan (Peace Museum) in the town of Chiran, Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan. Most of those World War II pilots died around age 20. The museum has 6,000 pieces war-related articles, including portraits and notes left behind by young pilots and soldiers.