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{{Infobox holiday
|holiday_name = National Memorial War Service for War Dead
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|image = Yasuo Fukuda 20080815 2.jpg
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|caption =The Japanese Prime Minister addressing the attendees on August 15, 2008
|official_name = 全国戦没者追悼式
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|date = August 15
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|observances = Memorial service aired by
|relatedto = [[National Liberation Day of Korea]], [[Victory over Japan Day]]
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[[File:Yasuo Fukuda 20080815 3.jpg|thumb|right| The ''National Memorial Service for War Dead'', at the indoor arena of the Nippon Budokan, Chiyoda ward, Tokyo, August 15, 2008]]
The {{nihongo|'''National Memorial Service for War Dead'''|全国戦没者追悼式|Zenkoku Senbotsusha Tsuitōshiki'}} is an official, [[secular]] ceremony conducted annually on August 15
==Shūsen-kinenbi==
{{Nihongo||終戦記念日|'''Shūsen-kinenbi'''|lit. "memorial day for the end
The official name for the day, however, is {{nihongo|"the day for mourning of war dead and praying for peace"|戦没者を追悼し平和を祈念する日|Senbotsusha o tsuitōshi heiwa o kinensuru hi}}. This official name was adopted in 1982 by an [[Decree|ordinance]] issued by the [[government of Japan|Japanese government]].<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.mhlw.go.jp/houdou/2007/08/h0808-1.html |script-title = ja:厚生労働省:全国戦没者追悼式について |language = ja |access-date = February 16, 2008 |date = August 8, 2007 |publisher = [[Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (Japan)|Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare]] |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080321222154/http://www.mhlw.go.jp/houdou/2007/08/h0808-1.html |archive-date = March 21, 2008 |url-status = live }}</ref>
Those events were:
*14 August 1945, the Imperial Japanese government gave notice to the [[Allies of World War II]] accepting the conditions of the [[Potsdam Declaration]],
*15August
*2September
*28April
▲*September 2, 1945, the official signing of the [[Japanese Instrument of Surrender]] aboard the {{USS|Missouri|BB-63|6}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXLASDG14H0H_V10C14A8MM0000/|script-title=ja:平和への誓い新た 69回目終戦の日、6000人参列 全国戦没者追悼式|trans-title=Renewed vow of peace. The sixty-ninth memorial day for the end of the war. 6000 attend nationwide memorial for those who died in battle|publisher=[[Nihon Keizai Shimbun]]|date=August 15, 2014|accessdate=August 18, 2014|language=Japanese}}</ref>
▲*April 28, 1952, the [[Treaty of San Francisco|San Francisco peace treaty with Japan]] came into force which under [[international law]] ended the state war with the Allied nations, and returned independence to Japan,
It is not an [[Public holidays in Japan|official holiday]] under Japanese law.{{citation needed|date=November 2014}}
==Overview==
By decision of the
[[File:1952 Memorial Ceremony for the War Dead.jpg|thumb|right|The first ceremony, held on May 2, 1952]]
In the following year, the service was held at [[Yasukuni Shrine]], and in 1965 it was moved to the Budokan where it is still held today. In 1982 the [[National Diet]] enacted a law fixing the date of the ceremony
The event is organized by the [[Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare]]. The Emperor and Empress are always in attendance, as well as representatives of business, labor, political, and religious organisations, and bereaved families. Roughly 6,000 attendees were recorded in 2007.
The service is scheduled at 11:
No invited leader has ever absented himself from the memorial, including those who have criticized visits to Yasukuni Shrine. There has never been a protest from foreign powers about the memorial.{{citation needed|date=May 2017}}
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==Order of service==
# Opening
# Entrance of
# Anthem: ''[[Kimigayo]]''
# Address by [[Prime Minister of Japan]]
# [[
# Address by [[Emperor of Japan|
# Addresses by [[Speaker of the House of Representatives (Japan)|Speaker of the House of Representatives]], [[President of the House of Councillors
# Exit of
# Offering of Flowers
# Closing
==Notable events==
* 1988:
* 2006: During the Speaker of the House of Representatives [[Yōhei Kōno]]'s speech, an exceptionally clear reference was made to war responsibility.
* 2007: Last ceremony with a surviving parent of a war victim in attendance.
* 2009: Due to an irregular dissolution of the
* 2011: The moment of silence was accidentally delayed by 26 seconds due to a long speech of Prime Miniter [[Naoto Kan]].
==References==
{{reflist}}
== See also ==
*[[Surrender of Japan]]
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