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Memorial and Prayer for Peace for Friends and Foes Alike
In 1904, the Imperial Japanese Army-requisitioned ship the Hitachi Maru was shelled and sunk by a Russian warship in the Genkai Sea while heading for China. Courteously, the village of Kayoi in Nagato City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, buried the bodies that washed ashore. The following year, Russia’s Baltic Fleet engaged in hostilities with the Japanese Navy’s combined fleet off the coast of Tsushima island and was almost completely destroyed. Again the bodies of Russian soldiers that washed ashore were courteously buried. In modern times, on June 15, the day the Hitachi Maru was sunk, local people hold a memorial service for the dead from both sides of the conflicts.
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Gravestone of Japanese and Russian Soldiers
On Ogoshinohama Beach in Kayoi, Nagato City, there are gravestones of the victims of the sinking of the Hitachi Maru (right) and of soldiers of the Russian warship (left).
Location: Kayoi, Nagato-shi, Yamaguchi
PH: 0837-23-1137 (Nagato City Tourism Division)
Website: Nagato City (Graves of Japanese and Russian Soldiers)
https://www.city.nagato.yamaguchi.jp/uploaded/attachment/8457.pdf
Transportation: Approx. 60 min from Chugoku Expressway Mine-nishi Interchange by car