By SHOGO MITSUZUMI/ Staff Writer
June 24, 2022 at 18:00 JST
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, foreground, and Denny Tamaki, governor of Okinawa, left, attend the memorial service in Itoman, Okinawa Prefecture, for the lives lost in the Battle of Okinawa on June 23. (Jun Kaneko)
ITOMAN, Okinawa Prefecture--People in Japan’s southernmost prefecture paid tribute on June 23, Okinawa Memorial Day, to the victims of the bloody ground battles that stained the soil here in the final months of World War II. [Read More]
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