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The School Was Used for Various Purposes, From Requests for Agricultural Product Donations to Student Information. the Diary of the Head of a Prefectural Agricultural and Forestry School Records the Military's Use of the School.

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The diary of Hideo Shibuya (74 years old at the time of his death), the last principal of the Prefectural Agriculture and Forestry School, has been made public 80 years after the end of the war. It records that personnel connected to the Japanese military visited the school more than 40 times between August 1944 and March 1945, highlighting the circumstances under which the military conveniently used the school. It also reveals the hectic pace o…
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A wartime diary written by Hideo Shibuya (1893-1967), the last principal of the Okinawa Prefectural Agricultural and Forestry School, which was closed during the Battle of Okinawa, has recently been discovered. The diary records the situation when the school was taken over by the Japanese military in the summer of 1944 and was drawn into the wartime regime.

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沖縄タイムス+プラス broke the news in on Sunday, February 15, 2026.
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