By KEIKO YASUDA/ Staff Writer
August 12, 2020 at 17:15 JST
Nothing remains of Naha's Shuri-jo castle in this May 1945 photo after heavy fighting in the Battle of Okinawa. (Provided by Okinawa Prefectural Archives)
Calls are growing again in Okinawa Prefecture to open a command post constructed under Shuri-jo castle in Naha used by the Imperial Japanese Army during the ferocious Battle of Okinawa against U.S. forces that raged from March to June 1945. [Read More]
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