Never forget: Akihito and Michiko bowing at an altar during a moment of silence to the war dead at a ceremony marking the 73rd anniversary of Japan’s surrender at Budokan Hall in Tokyo. — Reuters
TOKYO: Japan’s Emperor Akihito expressed “deep remorse” about his nation’s wartime acts, as Tokyo marked the 73rd anniversary of the end of World War II.
The carefully choreographed annual ceremony is the last Akihito and his wife Empress Michiko will attend before the emperor abdicates in April.
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