land ownership

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...
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