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Okinawa Marks 80th Anniversary of Fierce WWII Battle; Names of Yamato Battleship Crew Added to Peace Memorial
ITOMAN, Okinawa — Okinawa Prefecture marked Okinawa Memorial Day on Monday, remembering the Battle of Okinawa that took the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in the final days of World War II.
[NHK] On the 23rd, Okinawa celebrates Memorial Day, 80 years after the Battle of Okinawa, in which more than 200,000 people died, and prayers for peace are being offered all over the country.
On the 23rd, Okinawa celebrated Memorial Day, a day to mourn the victims of the Battle of Okinawa at the end of World War II. The Okinawa Prefectural and Prefectural Assembly hosted a Memorial Ceremony for All Okinawa War Dead at the Peace Memorial Park in Mabuni, Itoman City, Okinawa Prefecture, the site of the last fierce battle, and UN Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs, Nakamitsu Izumi, gave a speech. The full text of her speech…
Okinawa vows to pass on lessons on 80th anniv. of WWII battle end
Okinawa on Monday vowed to pass on history's lessons in a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the end of a fierce World War II ground battle between Japan and the United States that took over 200,000 military and civilian lives.
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