It is told that the Choutoku temple in Iwanuma city,Miyagi prefecture was built in 1657. When constructing on the road in front of the temple, small 28000 stones that copied the Buddhism sutra were excavated.
This is the stone monument built to hold a funeral for 1 killed in action of Russo-Japanese War and 26 killed in action of the Daitoa War(The World War ��). Killed in action in the Philippines is occupying 1/3 of them.
