Battle of Okinawa

Kobe jazz singer recovers war remains in Okinawa
Maiko Masaki, a jazz singer in Kobe, recovers bones of the war dead from the 1945 Battle of Okinawa in a cave in Itoman, Okinawa Prefecture. (Provided by Tetsuji Hamada)
April 25, 2013
Most Japanese tourists travel to the country’s southernmost prefecture for its beautiful beaches and subtropical climate. But Maiko Masaki has spent her last nine visits...
Families of Battle of Okinawa's fallen still...
A postcard Sei Kuchikata sent to his family in Chiba Prefecture from Okinawa, his fountain pen and a photo of Sei Kuchikata, second from left (Soichiro Yamamoto)
June 24, 2012
Shohei Kuchikata died at the age of 97 in March knowing that the remains of his older brother, Sei, had at last come home.
67 years after war, Okinawa landowners remain...
Toroku Oshiro says the border marking the boundary of his land became unrecognizable after the Battle of Okinawa in Itoman, Okinawa Prefecture. (Daisuke Shimizu)
June 23, 2012
ITOMAN, Okinawa Prefecture--On Okinawa Prefecture’s map marking the plots of landowners, 2,663 parcels of land totaling 805,000 square meters remain blank, a sad legacy of...
'Peace-learning' website tells realities of Battle...
A map on the Peace Learning Archive website shows where witnesses lived or fled to during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945.
June 23, 2012
Okinawa Prefecture opened a website featuring testimonies from survivors of the Battle of Okinawa to help people around the world learn the realities of one of the bloodiest...
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