Prince Philip to visit Yokohama War Cemetery
- Title
- Prince Philip to visit Yokohama War Cemetery
- Genre
- Interview; Special
- TX Date
- 24 Feb 1989
- Year of production
- 1989
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- Duration
- 00:02:39
- Description
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and Foreign Secretary, Geoffrey Howe are to visit the Yokohama War Cemetery in Japan where caretaker Takami Eida takes reporter Gareth Furby on a guided tour. An oasis of calm within a busy Tokyo suburb, many of the dead were prisoners of war of World War Two. Some distortion on tape. For Update programme.
- Contributors
- Gareth Furby; Takami Eida(?)
- Keywords
- Government; Prince Philip; Royal visits; Geoffrey Howe; Royal family; Second World War (1939-1945); Royalty; Japan; Prisoners of War; Tokyo; Update (radio programme); War graves
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