Following is the full text of Emperor Akihito’s speech delivered at the annual memorial Saturday to mark the end of the war:
On this day to commemorate the war dead and pray for peace, my thoughts are with the people who lost their precious lives in the last war and their bereaved families, as I attend this memorial ceremony with a deep and renewed sense of sorrow.
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