A spokesman for a newly-formed organisation set up to protect World War two monuments in and around the Solomon islands capital, Honiara, says these important sites will soon have 24 hours-a-day protection.
Masao Yamagata says the monuments erected by Japanese and American veterans will be watched over by the group's youth members.
Funds will be sought to fence the sites which Mr Yamagata says attract thousands of tourists to the country every year.
Many of those visitors are veterans or their relatives who come to pay homage to those who died during the Battle of Guadalcanal.
Twenty thousand Japanese and five thousand Americans lost their lives in the fierce fighting for control of the island.
