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Charnel house of A-bomb mound in Hiroshima shown to press

HIROSHIMA, Japan, July 16 Kyodo - The charnel house beneath the Atomic Bomb Memorial Mound in Hiroshima is shown to the press on July 16, 2025, ahead of the 80th anniversary of the bombing of the western Japan city on Aug. 6, 1945. The vault stores the ashes of about 70,000 atomic bomb victims, with many of them unclaimed. (Kyodo)

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Charnel house of A-bomb mound in Hiroshima shown to press

The charnel house beneath the Atomic Bomb Memorial Mound in Hiroshima is shown to the press on July 16, 2025, ahead of the 80th anniversary of the bombing of the western Japan city on Aug. 6, 1945. The vault stores the ashes of about 70,000 atomic bomb victims, with many of them unclaimed.

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Charnel house of A-bomb mound in Hiroshima shown to press

The charnel house beneath the Atomic Bomb Memorial Mound in Hiroshima is shown to the press on July 16, 2025, ahead of the 80th anniversary of the bombing of the western Japan city on Aug. 6, 1945. The vault stores the ashes of about 70,000 atomic bomb victims, with many of them unclaimed.

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Charnel house of A-bomb mound in Hiroshima shown to press

The charnel house beneath the Atomic Bomb Memorial Mound in Hiroshima is shown to the press on July 16, 2025, ahead of the 80th anniversary of the bombing of the western Japan city on Aug. 6, 1945. The vault stores the ashes of about 70,000 atomic bomb victims, with many of them unclaimed.

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Charnel house of A-bomb mound in Hiroshima shown to press

The charnel house beneath the Atomic Bomb Memorial Mound in Hiroshima is shown to the press on July 16, 2025, ahead of the 80th anniversary of the bombing of the western Japan city on Aug. 6, 1945. The vault stores the ashes of about 70,000 atomic bomb victims, with many of them unclaimed.

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Japanese crown princess visits leprosy sanatorium

Japanese Crown Princess Kiko offers flowers at the charnel house of a national leprosy sanatorium in Koshi in Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Feb. 15, 2023. (Pool photo)

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Japanese crown princess visits leprosy sanatorium

Japanese Crown Princess Kiko offers flowers at the charnel house of a national leprosy sanatorium in Koshi in Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Feb. 15, 2023. (Pool photo)

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Locker-style charnel house gaining popularity in China

BEIJING, China - A man prays at a locker-style charnel house in Beijing, China, on July 21, 2014, amid their rising popularity as an alternative to increasingly expensive cemetery graves.

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Emperor, Empress visit sanatorium for leprosy sufferers

TOME, Japan - Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko offer flowers at the charnel house of a national sanatorium for leprosy sufferers in Tome, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on July 22, 2014.

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Welfare minister visits leprosy sanatorium

Welfare minister Yasuhisa Shiozaki (R) offers flowers at the charnel house of a leprosy sanatorium in Tokyo on Sept. 7, 2015. After meeting with the residents, Shiozaki said the government will do its utmost to improve their living conditions. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Charnel house of A-bomb mound in Hiroshima shown to press

The charnel house beneath the Atomic Bomb Memorial Mound in Hiroshima, western Japan, is shown to the press on July 9, 2015. The vault mainly stores unclaimed ashes of victims of the atomic bomb. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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St. Ignatius Church in Tokyo

Photo taken Oct. 21, 2019, shows a charnel house set up at St. Ignatius Church in Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Memorial service for Japan's war dead

People visit a charnel house at the Chidorigafuchi National Cemetery for the war dead in Tokyo on May 27, 2019, to pray at a memorial service. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese emperor's visit to Okinawa

Japanese Emperor Akihito (R) and Empress Michiko bow after laying flowers at the charnel house of those who lost their lives during World War II at the Peace Memorial Park in Itoman, Okinawa Prefecture, on March 27, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Indigenous Ainu people hold memorial service

Indigenous Ainu people hold a memorial service for their ancestors in front of a charnel house at Hokkaido University in the northern Japan city of Sapporo on Aug. 4, 2017. The people held the ceremony to mark the internment there of an Ainu person's remains returned by a German academic association. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo