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Symposium on aircraft accident victims' families

Kuniko Miyajima (2nd from L), who leads an association of relatives of the victims of the 1985 Japan Airlines jumbo jet crash, speaks at a symposium on assistance for aircraft accident victims and their families organized by the International Civil Aviation Organization in Haarlem, the Netherlands, on Nov. 26, 2024. Miyajima, 77, lost her 9-year-old son in the world's worst single-aircraft accident that killed 520 passengers and crew.

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Story of boy killed in 1985 JAL crash resonates with kids, parents

Kuniko Miyajima, 71, winds up a music box at the grave marker of her son Ken at the Osutaka Ridge in Gunma Prefecture on July 21, 2018. Ken died at age 9 in the Japan Airlines jumbo jet crash there on Aug. 12, 1985. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Story of boy killed in 1985 JAL crash resonates with kids, parents

Kuniko Miyajima, 71, speaks in front of children about her son Ken, who died in the 1985 Japan Airlines jumbo jet crash, at an elementary school in Tokyo's Ota Ward on June 23, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Anniversary of 1985 Japan Airline plane crash

TOKYO, Japan - Kuniko Miyajima, head of a group of people who lost their relatives in the Aug. 12, 1985 Japan Airlines jumbo jet crash northwest of Tokyo, speaks about her book ''Osutakayama to Ikiru'' (To Live with Mt. Osutaka) in Tokyo on Aug. 5, 2010. The book details her struggle after losing her son in the accident as well as the group's efforts to make sure such accidents never happen again. (Kyodo)

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35th anniversary of 1985 JAL crash

Kuniko Miyajima (L), who lost her 9-year-old son in the 1985 Japan Airlines plane crash, plays bubbles with children on Osutaka Ridge, the crash site in the Gunma Prefecture village of Ueno, northwest of Tokyo, on Aug. 12, 2020, the 35th anniversary of the accident that claimed the lives of 520 people.

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35th anniversary of 1985 JAL crash

Kuniko Miyajima, who lost her 9-year-old son in the 1985 Japan Airlines plane crash, hikes up to Osutaka Ridge, the crash site in the Gunma Prefecture village of Ueno, northwest of Tokyo, on Aug. 12, 2020, the 35th anniversary of the accident that claimed the lives of 520 people.

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35th anniversary of 1985 JAL crash

Kuniko Miyajima (R), who lost her 9-year-old son in the 1985 Japan Airlines plane crash, plays bubbles with children on Osutaka Ridge, the crash site in the Gunma Prefecture village of Ueno, northwest of Tokyo, on Aug. 12, 2020, the 35th anniversary of the accident that claimed the lives of 520 people.

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35th anniversary of 1985 JAL crash

Kuniko Miyajima, who lost her 9-year-old son in the 1985 Japan Airlines plane crash, tolls a bell on Osutaka Ridge, the crash site in the Gunma Prefecture village of Ueno, northwest of Tokyo, on Aug. 12, 2020, the 35th anniversary of the accident that claimed the lives of 520 people.

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33rd anniversary of JAL crash

Mitsuru Hayasaka (2nd from R) and his wife Yuriko (R) blow bubbles at the site of the 1985 Japan Airlines jumbo jet crash in a mountain in Gunma Prefecture on Aug. 12, 2018, the 33rd anniversary of the deadliest single-aircraft accident in history. The Hayasakas, who lost their 18-year-old daughter Kaoru in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in northeastern Japan, climbed the mountain to visit the JAL accident site after getting acquainted with Kuniko Miyajima, whose 9-year-old son Ken was killed in the aircraft crash. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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33rd anniversary of JAL crash

Mitsuru Hayasaka (far L), his wife Yuriko (far R) and Kuniko Miyajima (center R) blow bubbles at the site of the 1985 Japan Airlines jumbo jet crash in Gunma Prefecture on Aug. 12, 2018, the 33rd anniversary of the deadliest single-aircraft accident in history. The accident claimed the lives of 520 people, including Miyajima's 9-year-old son Ken. The Hayasakas lost their 18-year-old daughter Kaoru in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in northeastern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo