On the 18th, a ceremony was held to commemorate the victims of the 78th anniversary of the street fighting between the former Japanese and American forces in Manila, the capital of the Philippines, at the end of the Pacific War.
In February 1945, at the end of the Pacific War, Manila was occupied by the former Japanese army and the American army. It has been.
On the 18th, about 40 people, including the bereaved families of the victims, gathered in the center of Manila to hold a memorial service in front of the cenotaph.
At the ceremony, the bereaved families laid wreaths at the memorial monument and offered prayers to the victims, and 78 years after the end of the war, the number of survivors who experienced street fighting is decreasing. I was.
A woman who lost her grandparents and cousin when she was six years old said, "It was a really terrible war. I hope that such a war will never happen again."
In a building near the venue where the ceremony was held, a documentary film was screened that collected the testimonies of citizens during the war, and bereaved families participated in an effort to convey the history.