By TOMOYA ISHIKAWA/ Staff Writer
September 22, 2023 at 07:00 JST
Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako offer a minute of silent prayer to pay tribute to the nation's war dead during a ceremony held Aug. 15 at the Nippon Budokan hall in Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward. (Shigetaka Kodama)
In Japan, the annual wartime commemoration is cynically and critically referred to as "August journalism," in which media outlets bombard the public with much of the same coverage year after year. [Read More]
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