By KOHEI MORIOKA/ Staff Writer
August 12, 2020 at 18:55 JST
Junko Miyazawa, right, offers a prayer to her father, one of the 520 victims of the 1985 plane crash, on the ridge of Mount Osutakayama on Aug. 12. (Toshiyuki Hayashi)
UENO, Gunma Prefecture--The intensity of the desire of mourners to “reunite” with loved ones who perished in the world’s deadliest single-aircraft accident here remains undiminished, despite a scaled-back annual memorial ceremony this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [Read More]
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