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長谷部秀邦氏

　世界無名戦士之墓は、第二次世界大戦後、埼玉県庁の一室に安置されていた遺族の行方のわからない方、また受け取る方のいない御遺骨など2百余柱のほか、世界無名戦士之霊をはじめ、世界民族の霊、萬國萬霊、ビルマ戦没霊、フィリッピン戦没霊、埼玉県戦士之霊、東京都無名戦士之霊、神奈川県無名戦士の霊、石川縣戦士之霊、越生町戦没者之霊などの位牌、英霊名簿などが納められた霊廟で、越生町の医師で埼玉県議会副議長でありました長谷部秀邦氏の発願により、県内の英霊をはじめ世界の英霊たちをお祀りし、世界平和祈願の殿堂として国、埼玉県または多くの篤志家のご支援を得て6年の歳月をかけ挙町体制のもと、特定の宗教宗派に属さない施設として昭和30年8月に完成いたしました。「無名戦士」とは、名前のわからないという意味ではなく、位階を超越し、一切無名平等にお祀りするという意味でこの名称になりました。

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1. Outline

World Unknown Soldiers Tomb was built to place the ashes of the dead people, around 200 and more, whose bereaved family were not identified and no one had received the ashes. They were once temporally put in a room of Saitama prefectural office. And Buddhist memorial tablet and dead people’s list of world unknown soldiers were also placed in the tomb,where included were the Burmese war dead, Philippine war dead, war dead in Saitama pref., in Tokyo metropolis, in Kanagawa pref., in Ishikawa pref., and in OGOSE town and other war dead of races and nations.

First proposal to build this tomb was suggested by Mr. Hidekuni HASEBE who was a doctor in OGOSE town and vice chairman of Saitama Prefectural Assembly. He hoped to build the tomb in order to mourn for the numerous war dead and to pray for the world peace. He got to work on Japanese Government and Saitama prefecture and got many charitable supporters. And six years later from his proposal, this tomb was completed in August of 1955. This tomb is not belonged to specific religion. And the understanding of the word "unknown" is not unidentifying the each name, but mourning as the sense of equal ,nevertheless they had various dignity, orders and degrees in this world.

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