Those killed in wartime forced labor mourned in Kumamoto at Shohoji Temple in Arao City "Peace and Friendship Together" (Kyodo News)

A joint memorial service was held on the 12th at Shohoji Temple in Arao City, Kumamoto Prefecture, where the former Mitsui Miike coal mine was located, to mourn those who were forcibly mobilized from the Korean Peninsula and China to work in Japanese coal mines during the war and died in harsh labor or accidents. This year marks 80 years since the end of the war, and attendees looked back on the past and spoke of their hopes of building peace an…