The annual worship ceremony held at the Chidorigafuchi War Dead Cemetery to comfort the spirits of those who died in overseas battlefields will be canceled following last year due to the influence of the new coronavirus. became.
The Chidorigafuchi War Dead Memorial in Tokyo contains the remains of about 370,000 people who died in battlefields overseas during World War II. The bereaved family is attending to comfort the spirits of the war dead.
Last year, due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection, it was canceled since 1967, and the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare was preparing for the implementation on May 31st.
However, in addition to the state of emergency being declared, the bereaved family is also aging, so it is necessary to reduce the risk of infection as much as possible, so it was decided to cancel it.
This is the first time that the worship ceremony has been canceled for the second consecutive year.
Regarding the project to collect the remains of the war dead, the problem that they had mistaken for the remains of non-Japanese people became clear, and last year the bones were not delivered to the graveyard, but this was done in the past from Russia and Iwo Jima. It is said that the remains of 274 people brought back were confirmed to be Japanese and were delivered in May.