The government has come up with a plan to build a nondenominational cenotaph for the nation's war dead in the wake of the diplomatic furor caused by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, government sources said Saturday.
The state-run memorial facility would be modeled after the Cornerstone of Peace in Okinawa Prefecture, where the names of 238,161 victims of the 1945 Battle of Okinawa -- including Americans and Koreans -- are engraved, the sources said.
The plan is scheduled to be discussed by a private advisory panel to Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda to be set up in September, the sources said.