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People who view the memorial service from the outside without entering the memorial hall to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus infection.
On the 10th, 76 years after the Tokyo bombing, a spring memorial service was held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Memorial Hall in the Sumida district, Tokyo, and some 30 bereaved families in attendance renewed their desire for peace. . To prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, the scale was reduced like last year.
At a memorial service, Governor Yuriko Koike said, “We have a responsibility to pass on the memories of wars and disasters to the next generation without fading them.”
Kenji Ishizaka (71), the representative of the grieving family, has lost seven relatives who lived in Sumida Ward, Ushiku city, Ibaraki prefecture. In an interview after the memorial service, he thought about the victim’s remorse and said, “Some people have lost their young children and couldn’t even find their remains.”
According to the Tokyo Commemorative Association, which sponsored the event, the request to attend the imperial family was withdrawn, just like last year, due to the contagion status of the new crown earlier in the year. After the memorial service, the memorial hall accepted incense from the general public, and measures were taken such as temperature measurement upon admission, hand disinfection, and ventilation.
It is said that in the pre-dawn bombing of Tokyo on March 10, 1945, incendiary bombs dropped by US military aircraft indiscriminately dropped 100,000 people in downtown areas such as Sumida, Koto, and Taito Wards. (Hiroshi Matsuo)
