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The Japan News/Yomiuri
The Japan News/Yomiuri
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The Yomiuri Shimbun

Victims of 1985 JAL crash into mountain remembered

A climber on the Osutaka ridge in Ueno, Gunma Prefecture, on Friday offers prayers for the victims of the 1985 crash of a Japan Airlines jumbo jet. (Credit: The Yomiuri Shimbun)

UENO, Gunma -- Friday marked the 37th anniversary of the Japan Airlines jumbo jet crash into Mt. Osutaka in Ueno, Gunma Prefecture, in which 520 passengers and crew died.

Family members of the victims climbed to the crash site on the Osutaka ridge, about 1,500 meters above sea level, where the cenotaph for the deceased is situated.

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