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毎日新聞が滋賀県甲賀にて執り行われました【前川雪夫】命日章旗返還式について記事を掲載してくださいました。

ー「関心深めること必要」県戦没者追悼式　遺族ら350人参列　甲賀　ー

平和祈念県戦没者追悼式と戦争遺留品返還式が1日、甲賀市水口町の甲賀市あいこうか市民ホールで営まれた。当初は8月31日に開催予定だったが、台風10号の影響で延期されていた。県内各市町の遺族代表ら約350人が参列。戦争の悲惨さを思い、戦没者を悼んだ。

 

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→デジタル有料版　https://mainichi.jp/articles/20241202/ddl/k25/040/109000c

OBON SOCIETY extends our heartfelt thanks to Christina and her colleagues at The Mining and Rollo Jamison Museum in Platteville, Wisconsin, for their generous donation of two flags. We are deeply grateful for the care and respect they showed, from the thoughtful packaging to the send-off. What an incredible team the museum has—thank you for your kindness and dedication!

捜索班の工藤です。令和６年１１月２２日に「曹洞宗」の北海道管区内の婦人会研修会にて講演をさせて頂きました。聴衆は皆さま所謂お坊さんでした。

昨年の７月に北海道松前町にて行った【鈴木秀二命日章旗返還式】に参列頂いた同町【法幢時】の御住職より「研修会の講師として日章旗返還活動についてお話して欲しい」とご縁を頂きました。約５０名ほどのお坊さんを前に９０分間、ＯＢＯＮの活動について、「寄せ書き日の丸」について、遺霊品の返還を依頼される米国側の想いなど、動画と写真を使いお話致しました。

実際の日章旗を皆様に見て頂いたり、北海道で行われた捜索、返還についてお話すると皆様身を乗り出して関心を示されていました。

 

日章旗の返還を通したくさんのご縁を頂き、とても感謝しております。

より多くの方々にこの活動を知って頂き、そして一枚でも多く、一日でも早く遺霊品の返還をして行きたいと強く思いました。

Please click the link below to read our latest newsletter about flag #1 from the USS Missouri. 

 

 

Please click the link below for our latest newsletter featuring the USS Missouri and the three flags they generously donated to OBON SOCIETY.

 

Please join us for a special Zoom presentation on Thursday, October 24th hosted by the USS Missouri. We recently received three Yosegaki Hinomaru during a Flag Transfer Ceremony held in the Captain's cabin on board USS Missouri in October 3rd.

 

We hope to share our on going efforts to further deepen the people-to-people exchanges that form the unwavering foundation of the Japan-US relationship.

 

For more information and register the Zoom, please click below link:

 

We look forward to meeting you via Zoom!

WWII Japanese flags given to group for return to soldiers' families
Three Japanese flags kept at the Battleship Missouri Memorial in Hawaii have been donated to a group working to return World War Two relics to families of Japanese servicemen.
The flags were entrusted to the memorial at Pearl Harbor by former US servicemen and their families. A ceremony to transfer the flags to the OBON SOCIETY, a US based organization that returns war relics to families, was held at the memorial on Thursday.
The Japanese flags were inscribed with signatures and messages by family and friends, then given to departing servicemen. Men carried such flags into battle as good luck amulets.
The president of the Battleship Missouri Memorial, Michael Carr, referred to next year as the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two.
Carr said, "This flag transfer becomes a symbol of our continued commitment to ensuring that the lessons of World War Two are never forgotten, that we strive for a future built on peace, mutual respect and understanding."
The co-founder of OBON SOCIETY, Rex Ziak, said: "This is the ship that's going around the world as the vessel that brought Japan to its knees." He went on to say, "now their thoughts have changed their feelings, and it is a simple unconditional friendship, the unconditional peace between US and Japan."