By SHINICHI FUJIWARA/ Staff Writer
June 23, 2020 at 18:57 JST
Mourners gather at the memorial tower that commemorates those who died in the battle but were never identified. Flowers were offered to console the souls of the war dead at the site in Itoman, Okinawa Prefecture, on June 23. (Jun Kaneko)
ITOMAN, Okinawa Prefecture--A scaled-down memorial service was held here June 23 to remember victims of the 1945 Battle of Okinawa, which claimed one in four lives of the civilian population. [Read More]
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