On the 8th, 80 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, a light was lit at the communication facility of the former Japanese Navy in Wakkanai City, Hokkaido, which is said to have sent a coded telegram ordering the attack to the front line troops.
On December 8, 1945, 80 years ago, the former Japanese Navy's "Makubetsu Transmission Station" in the suburbs of Wakkanai City issued a coded telegram "Niitaka Yamanobole 12 ○ 8 (Hitofutamaruhachi)" ordering an attack on Pearl Harbor. It is said that it was relayed to the front line unit.
Approximately 30 people, including members of a civic group working on conservation activities from the attack on Pearl Harbor on the 8th of 1980, gathered in the building that was a communication facility, and after offering a silent prayer, about 80 andons were lit. , I was renewing my wish for peace.
A man in his 50s who recently learned about this building in Asahikawa said, "I felt we were alive in the sad history of war. The feeling that we shouldn't go to war became stronger again. I was. "
Yoji Kumada, a member of the Wakkanai City History and Town Study Group and born in Sakhalin, said, "I don't want you to repeat the miserable feelings you experienced when you returned to Japan after the defeat. Peace. I want to continue to send my wishes to many people. "