The Japanese memorial to the country’s war dead on Iwo Jima’s Mount Suribachi. Photo: SCMP
The Japanese memorial to the country’s war dead on Iwo Jima’s Mount Suribachi. Photo: SCMP
This Week in Asia /  Geopolitics

Return to Iwo Jima: 75 years after US-Japan battle, what is the island like today?

  • With human remains still being found, the Japanese island is covered in sobering reminders of its bloody past
  • US marines regularly make the pilgrimage to the top of Mount Suribachi to remember their fallen countrymen

Julian Ryall
Julian Ryall

Updated: 11:27am, 3 Jun, 2019

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The Japanese memorial to the country’s war dead on Iwo Jima’s Mount Suribachi. Photo: SCMP
The Japanese memorial to the country’s war dead on Iwo Jima’s Mount Suribachi. Photo: SCMP
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