Iwojima

Abe to visit Chichijima amid treaty ceremony...
The Ogasawara island chain, with Chichijima island in the background (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
April 11, 2013
Plans by the Japanese government to hold a ceremony commemorating the San Francisco Peace Treaty on April 28 are facing criticism from islands that were forsaken in the...
High-tech radar to probe Iwojima runway for war...
Officials conduct a test with a newly developed radar system on Iwojima island. (Provided by the government’s team dedicated to collecting the remains of Japanese soldiers on the island)
August 22, 2012
With the remains of some 10,000 Imperial Japanese soldiers still unaccounted for on Iwojima island, one seemingly impenetrable final resting site is beneath a runway still in...
Letters of Olympian who perished on Iwojima find...
This letter, which Tatsugo Kawaishi sent to his wife Teruko from Iwojima island in December 1944, says he wants his son Tatsuo to be a shipbuilder. (Provided by Tatsuo Kawaishi)
July 15, 2012
ETAJIMA, Hiroshima Prefecture--Letters that an Olympic medalist sent to his wife from Iwojima island, where he perished during the final days of World War II, will soon be used ...
PHOTO/ Japanese, Americans honor war dead on Iwojima
Chairmen of Iwojima associations of Japan and the United States show a Japanese national flag together on Iwojima island on March 14. The flag was offered by a bereaved family member of a U.S. soldier. (Ai Matsumura)
March 15, 2012
A memorial service was held on Iwojima island on March 14 for Japanese and American soldiers who died in the celebrated 1945 battle there during World War II.
Search lives on for Japan's 1 million missing war...
Takamatsu Gushiken preserves the remains of three people who died during World War II found in a bunker in Naha. (The Asahi Shimbun)
August 16, 2011
Sixty-six years after the end of World War II, Chuji Inoue and many others are fighting their own private little wars, trying to repatriate the remains of some 1.13 million...
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