THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
August 15, 2021 at 18:49 JST
Relatives of the war dead Hiroshi Kakihara, left, and Shoji Nagaya speak at a news conference prior to a government ceremony to remember the war dead in Tokyo on Aug. 15. (Hiroyuki Yamamoto)
Japan on Aug. 15 paid tribute to its war dead in a government ceremony in Tokyo marking the 76th anniversary of the country's surrender in World War II by significantly scaling back the number of attendees due to the novel coronavirus pandemic raging in the capital and elsewhere. [Read More]
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