On the 10th, 77 years after the bombing of Tokyo, which killed about 100,000 people, a memorial service was held in Sumida Ward, Tokyo, praying to the victims of the bereaved families and praying to Ukraine in Russia. I was indignant at the military invasion.
At the end of the Pacific War, Tokyo received more than 100 air raids, but especially in the air raids before dawn on March 10, 1945, the current downtown area such as Sumida Ward was devastated and about 100,000. A person was sacrificed.
On the 10th, 77 years after this air raid, a memorial service was held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Memorial Hall.
The memorial service was carried out on a reduced scale to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, and about 30 people, including Governor Koike of Tokyo and representatives of the bereaved families, attended and burned incense to commemorate the victims. Did.
Outside the venue, people who lost their families in the air raids visited one after another and prayed.
An 85-year-old woman who lost her mother and sister after experiencing an air raid said, "I thought this was the last time because I had a bad leg, but I will never forget it for many years, and it is still difficult to remember. There is a war in Ukraine, but like the air raids on Tokyo, the general public is sacrificed. Killing or destroying people in the war does nothing, and nothing should be done. I don't think it is. "
An 87-year-old man said, "I was 10 years old at the time, and I was evacuated to a relative's house in Niigata prefecture, so I was safe, but my parents, my younger brother, and my sister who remained in Tokyo were sacrificed. Where did I die? I don't know the bones, and I go there every year. I feel sorry for my little brother in Ukraine, and I wonder why he is going to war, "he said with tears.