By SHINICHI FUJIWARA/ Staff Writer
June 23, 2020 at 18:57 JST
Third-year Shuri High School student Akane Takara recites her “peace poem” at the annual Memorial Service for All the Fallen in the Battle of Okinawa 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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