80 Years On: Overseas Memorial Services for Japanese Families to End

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Tokyo, Aug. 13 (Jiji Press)–A program that allows families of Japanese nationals who died in overseas battlefields during World War II to visit memorial sites and hold commemorative ceremonies abroad will end this fiscal year due to the aging of participants. With this year marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the war, Nippon Izokukai, a bereaved families organization for the war dea…

Tokyo, Aug. 13 (Jiji Press)–A program that allows families of Japanese nationals who died in overseas battlefields during World War II to visit memorial sites and hold commemorative ceremonies abroad will end this fiscal year due to the aging of participants. With this year marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the war, Nippon Izokukai, a bereaved families organization for the war dea…