天皇ご
一家は、4
日から2
日間の
日程で
沖縄県を
訪問し、
戦後80
年にあたって
戦没者を
慰霊されます。
The Imperial Family will visit Okinawa Prefecture for two days starting on the 4th, to pay their respects to the war dead on the 80th anniversary since the end of the war.
沖縄では、太平洋戦争末期の昭和20年3月から6月にかけて住民を巻き込んで激しい地上戦が行われ、20万人以上が犠牲になりました。
In Okinawa, from March to June of 1945 during the final stages of World War II, fierce ground battles involving local residents took place, resulting in over 200,000 casualties.
それから80年。
天皇皇后両陛下は、初めて沖縄を訪問される長女の愛子さまとともに、4日午後、特別機で那覇空港に到着し、まず、沖縄戦最後の激戦地、糸満市を訪問して、「国立沖縄戦没者墓苑」にある18万人以上の遺骨が納められた納骨堂の前に花を供えて犠牲者の霊を慰められます。
Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress, together with their eldest daughter Princess Aiko, who is visiting Okinawa for the first time, arrived at Naha Airport on the afternoon of the 4th on a special plane. First, they visited Itoman City, the site of the last fierce battle of the Battle of Okinawa, and offered flowers in front of the ossuary at the National Okinawa War Dead Cemetery, where the remains of over 180,000 people are enshrined, to console the spirits of the victims.
続いて、24万人を超える戦没者の名前が刻まれた石碑「平和の礎（いしじ）」や平和祈念資料館を訪ね、沖縄戦の体験者などと懇談されます。
Next, they will visit the Cornerstone of Peace, a monument inscribed with the names of over 240,000 war dead, as well as the Peace Memorial Museum, and have a discussion with Okinawa battle survivors and others.
天皇陛下の沖縄訪問は、本土復帰50年の年に皇后さまとともに訪ねられて以来2年7か月ぶりで、皇太子になる前の昭和62年の初訪問以来、7回目です。
His Majesty the Emperors visit to Okinawa is his first in two years and seven months since he visited with the Empress in the year marking the 50th anniversary of Okinawas reversion to Japan. It is his seventh visit since his first trip in 1987, before becoming Crown Prince.
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