Daily Yomiuri Online :: Sunday, August 16, 2009

• Nation remembers war dead / Emperor, Aso hope for world peace in memorial service (Aug.16)
  The Yomiuri Shimbun
  Prime Minister Taro Aso and the Emperor spoke of their hopes for world peace at a national memorial service held Saturday in Tokyo to mark the 64th anniversary of the end of World War II and remember 3.1 million Japanese war dead. continued ...


• ELECTION 2009--BATTLE FOR POWER / Official campaigning period for Aug. 30 poll to start Tues. (Aug.16)
  The Yomiuri Shimbun
  Official campaigning for the Aug. 30 House of Representatives election will kick off Tuesday. continued ...


• 101-year-old war widow oldest to attend service (Aug.16)
  The Yomiuri Shimbun
  Shizue Ikehata, a 101-year-old woman from Saitama, on Saturday was the oldest person to attend the national memorial service. continued ...


• Man recalls family lost to A-bomb / Memories still strong of waiting for father to pick him up from evacuation center (Aug.16)
  The Yomiuri Shimbun
  A 74-year-old man who lost his father, brothers and sisters in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima 64 years ago while he was in a remote mountain village watched the memorial service for the war dead on TV at his home in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, on Saturday. continued ...


• Letters tell of father's love in midst of battle (Aug.16)
  Taro Nishijima / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer
  It was after she turned 70 that Matsuyo Osada learned just how much her father loved her, through about 100 letters found 60 years after his death in Okinawa. continued ...