80 Years On, Okinawa Fierce Ground Battle Victims Remembered
Itoman, Okinawa Pref., June 23 (Jiji Press)--A memorial ceremony was held Monday in Okinawa Prefecture to mourn over 200,000 people who lost their lives in a fierce ground battle in the southernmost Japan prefecture 80 years ago in the final phase of the Pacific War, part of World War II. In the ceremony, sponsored by the Okinawa prefectural government and held at the Peace Memorial Park in...
Tomas Kauer - News Moderator 
Itoman, Okinawa Pref., June 23 (Jiji Press)--A memorial ceremony was held Monday in Okinawa Prefecture to mourn over 200,000 people who lost their lives in a fierce ground battle in the southernmost Japan prefecture 80 years ago in the final phase of the Pacific War, part of World War II. In the ceremony, sponsored by the Okinawa prefectural government and held at the Peace Memorial Park in...
