Search｜Photos & Images & Videos｜KYODO NEWS IMAGES INC

Memorial service for 3 sunken ships off Hokkaido in 1945

Candles are lit on a beach in Rumoi, Hokkaido, on Aug. 16, 2025, in memory of about 1,700 victims of the Aug. 22, 1945 sinking of three Japanese civilian transport ships by Soviet submarines off the northern Japan city a week after Japan's surrender in World War II.

E

Memorial service for 3 sunken ships off Hokkaido in 1945

Candles are lit on a beach in Rumoi, Hokkaido, on Aug. 16, 2025, in memory of about 1,700 victims of the Aug. 22, 1945 sinking of three Japanese civilian transport ships by Soviet submarines off the northern Japan city a week after Japan's surrender in World War II.

E

Memorial service for 3 sunken ships off Hokkaido in 1945

Candles are lit on a beach in Rumoi, Hokkaido, on Aug. 16, 2025, in memory of about 1,700 victims of the Aug. 22, 1945 sinking of three Japanese civilian transport ships by Soviet submarines off the northern Japan city a week after Japan's surrender in World War II.

E

Spotted seals in northern Japan

Wild spotted seals rest on breakwater blocks in waters off Rumoi in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on Dec. 10, 2021.

E

Spotted seals in northern Japan

A wild spotted seal rests on a breakwater block in waters off Rumoi in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on Dec. 10, 2021.

E

Spotted seals in northern Japan

A wild spotted seal rests on a breakwater block in waters off Rumoi in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on Dec. 10, 2021.

E

Seals in Hokkaido

Wild spotted seals poke their heads out in waters off Rumoi in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on Dec. 10, 2021.

E

Japan's main opposition party leader Edano

Yukio Edano, head of the largest opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, speaks to reporters in Rumoi, Hokkaido, on Nov. 3, 2020.