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Japan marks WWII dead as modern youth feel distance
In Tokyo's Nippon Budokan, Emperor Hirohito and war widows lead Buddhist Bon festival ceremonies honoring war dead from Manchuria to Tinian. Amid prayers, lanterns, and drum songs, crowds recall loss while younger generations face a transportation nightmare and muted emotion as postwar Japan shifts.
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Tokyo
Japan
Emperor Hirohito
Yae Ando
Hide Teruya
Hatsuko Fukumoto
Manchuria
Nippon Budokan
Muhammad Ali
Antonio Inoki
Eiichi Nishimura
Takeo Fukuda
Fukuda
Finance Ministry
China
Indochina