THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
June 22, 2020 at 18:58 JST
Kiyoshi Higa stands in front of U.S. military’s Camp Kinser in Urasoe, Okinawa Prefecture, on June 17. The camp’s No. 5 gate used to be the center of the Kowan settlement where he grew up. (Mika Kuniyoshi)
NAHA--For decades after the ferocious 1945 Battle of Okinawa, Katsuko Yasumoto freely shared her experiences of the carnage, but always held back on one particularly painful detail: atrocities committed by Japanese soldiers against their own countrymen. [Read More]
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