[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)

Memorial ceremony for over 1,000 kamikaze pilots

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.

Memorial ceremony for over 1,000 kamikaze pilots

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.

City to file kamikaze pilots' mementos for world memory

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.

Kamikaze pilots' mementos for world memory

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.

Priests of different faiths forming groups across Japan

Priests of different faiths forming groups across Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken March 29, 2014, shows a member (standing) of a group of religious practitioners in Kagoshima Prefecture telling a symposium in the prefectural city of Minamikyushu, held by an academic society of religious scholars in western Japan, about the importance of dialogue among priests of different faiths.

H-2A rocket launched from Japan, carrying British satellite

H-2A rocket launched from Japan, carrying British satellite

This four-minute exposure photo taken from Minamikyushu in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, shows the light trail left by an H-2A rocket carrying a British communications satellite following its launch from Tanegashima Space Center in the prefecture in the early hours of Dec. 23, 2021.

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

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

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

"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

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

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

Japanese visitors commemorate WWII suicide pilots in Pearl Harbor

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

Priests of different faiths forming groups across Japan

Priests of different faiths forming groups across Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken March 29, 2014, shows a member (standing) of a group of religious practitioners in Kagoshima Prefecture telling a symposium in the prefectural city of Minamikyushu, held by an academic society of religious scholars in western Japan, about the importance of dialogue among priests of different faiths. (Kyodo)

Unmanned tea-picking machine

Unmanned tea-picking machine

An unmanned machine outfitted with sensors and artificial intelligence harvests green tea at a farm in Minamikyushu in Kagoshima Prefecture on May 10, 2019. The southwestern Japan prefecture has developed the machine jointly with local companies in response to a labor shortage amid the aging of farmers. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Unmanned tea-picking machine

Unmanned tea-picking machine

An unmanned machine outfitted with sensors and artificial intelligence harvests green tea at a farm in Minamikyushu in Kagoshima Prefecture on May 10, 2019. The southwestern Japan prefecture has developed the machine jointly with local companies in response to a labor shortage amid the aging of farmers. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo