1. Village officials led a memorial service in Zamami, Okinawa on Wednesday to commemorate the beginning of ground battles there 80 years ago. US forces made their first landing there in1945. It was the first such remembrance ceremony in 10 years. Attendees mourned the victims and reaffirmed efforts for peace.
2. Wildfires continue to spread in western Japan, with no signs of being brought under control. The blazes are still expanding in Ehime and Okayama prefectures, while a new wildfire broke out in Miyazaki Prefecture on Tuesday.
3. Japan is providing medical equipment to a children’s hospital in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv that was damaged by a Russian missile attack last July. The Okhmatdyt children’s hospital is the largest state-run medical institution for children in Ukraine, with a record of performing over 10,000 surgeries in 2023.
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