Former Kamikaze pilot Toshio Yoshitake , 82, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Funabashi, east of Tokyo, June 16, 2005. Yoshitake, who lost all other17 pilots and flight instructors in the "Special Assault Corps" unit who took off with him from the Imperial Army airstrip just east of Tokyo in November, 1944, shrugs off Yasukuni Shrine's political baggage."We have a right to pay our respects," he said. (AP Photo/Katsumi Kasahara)

• Contributor: Associated Press / Alamy Stock Photo
• Image ID: 2PE1M1R
• File size: 8 MB (200.8 KB Compressed download)
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• Dimensions: 1400 x 2000 px | 23.7 x 33.9 cm | 9.3 x 13.3 inches | 150dpi
• Date taken: 30 June 2005
• Photographer: KATSUMI KASAHARA

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