Japan Marks 80th Anniversary Of WWII Surrender

Tokyo (AP) – Japan He pays tribute to more than 3 million wars for the country pointing out surrender 80 years ago, II.

Prime minister Shigeru Ishiba Through the war, a Japanese leader relieved the former Premier Shinzo Abe’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for the first time, which a Japanese leader restored the word at August 15.

However, Ishiba did not mention Japan’s aggression in Asia or apologizing.

“We will never repeat the tragedy of the war. We will never go wrong, Ish Ishiba said. “Once again, we have to keep the course deeply and regret this war.”

He promised to transfer the tragedy of war and peace to future generations.

At a national ceremony at the Budokan Hall of Tokyo on Friday, approximately 4,500 authorized and old families and their grandchildren from all over the country observed a moment of silence that the Empon’s surrender speech began on 15 August 1945.

Only one block is far away Yasukuni TempleDuzines came to pray to Japanese right -wing politicians and supporters.

The temple honors Japan’s 2.5 million war, including convicted war criminals. The victims of Japanese aggression, especially China and Korea, see the temple visits as a lack of regret about Japan’s war time.

Ishiba stayed away from Yasukuni and sent a religious ornament as a personal gesture instead of praying in the controversial temple.

However Shinjiro koizumiThe Minister of Agriculture was accepted as a senior candidate to replace the besieged prime minister and prayed in the temple. Koizumi, son of former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi, who visited Yasukuni as a service leader in 2001, is regular at the Temple.

When he returned to his ministry, Koizumi told journalists that he had promised the souls without war. “It is important not to forget those who sacrificed their lives for their countries,” he said.

Former Economic Security Ministers Sanae Takaichi and Takayuki Kobayashi, including the liberal democratic party, the temple, which directed heavy Koichi Haguda, visited Friday.

Liberal Democrat Ichiro Ichiro Aisawa, led by 87 parliamentarians, a non-partisan group also prayed in Yasukuni and promised to “protect peace” in Japan and Indo-Pacific region. Aisawa promised to “transfer the historical realities of war to future generations”.

Separately, populist far -right Sanseito President Sohi Kamiya came from his party with 17 parliamentary and 70 local councilors and said he was praying for war. He told reporters that the Prime Minister should visit Yasukuni.

The emperor shows ‘deep regret’ and emphasizes the importance to continue to explain the tragedy of the war

The Japanese emperors stopped visiting Yasukuni since the concealment of the best war criminals in 1978.

Emperor NaruhitoAt his address at the Budokan Monument on Friday, while expressing the hope that the collapse of the war would never be repeated, “reflecting our past and keeping in mind the feelings of deep regret”.

Naruhito reiterated the importance of describing the tragic history of the war and the strawberries encountered during and after conflicts with young generations as iz We continue to look for the peace and happiness of the people in the future ”.

As part of its 80th anniversary, Iwo Jima– Okinaawa And HiroshimaAnd in September he is expected to visit his daughter Princess Aiko and Nagasaki.

When his ship was shot by a mine, Hajime Eda, who died on his way home from Korea, said that he would not forget his father and others who never brought him home. In his speech, which represents the mourning families, Eda said that sharing the lesson is Japan’s responsibility – the void of conflict, the difficulty of restructuring and the value of peace.

There was a little hope at the ceremony, a series of young people attended after learning their grandfather who died on the battlefields.

Among them, a 15 -year -old high school student from Hiroshima Ami Tashiro said that after reading a letter sent by his grandfather from the island, he added a monument to the end of the war in Iwo Jima last year. He also hopes to join the remnants.

As the generation of generation of wart time decreases rapidly, Japan faces serious questions about how it should be transferred to the next generation. The country has already met Revisionist returns Since the 2010s, Japan has since the scope of ABE, who has said that Japan should correct the history of war in the history of war and to regain its national pride.

Japanese prime ministers have stopped since 2013 Apologizing to Asian victimsUnder the precedent determined by ABE.

Some MPs reject Japan’s military role Great Civil Deaths in Okinaawa or Nanking Massacre It led to controversy.

Naoya Endo, 64, came to Yasukuni instead of the deceased father, who was among the 50 members of the unit returning from Taiwan. He said he was worried about growing global tension and hoped that there would be no war in his life. He said that many Japanese has lost his love for pride and his homeland.

On Friday, an editorial called the Mainichi newspaper that Japan’s pacifist principle was mostly about staying away from global conflict, rather than thinking about peace, and called the country to work as equal partners with Asian neighbors.

Mainichi said, “It is time to show a vision for a ‘war without war’ based on the course of his own history,” Mainichi said.

Associated Press journalists Mayuko Ono, McGill and Reeno Hashimoto contributed to the foot.