Takamatsu runs his fingers through the gravel until two pieces of bone emerge - parts of the skulls, he says, of an infant ...

has made the people of Okinawa deeply anxious,” Tamaki said at an annual memorial ceremony held at the Peace Memorial Park here. The nearly three-month Battle of Okinawa raged from March 26 ...

On Okinawa Memorial Day, a public holiday in this southernmost prefecture, people were seen visiting the Cornerstone of Peace here from early in the morning on June 23. Despite the rain ...

created in memory of those who died in the Battle of Okinawa, at the Peace Memorial Park in Itoman, on the main island of the Okinawa archipelago, southern Japan, Friday, Feb. 14, 2025.

Izabela heads to the office of the Okinawa Prefecture Peace Memorial Foundation. 10:43 The organization conducts investigations on the war dead and manages their remains and belongings.

NAHA CITY, Okinawa — A woman opposed to U.S. military ... in protest again June 23 during the Irei No Hi ceremony at Peace Memorial Park in Itoman city, earning another conviction under the ...

Currently, there is no memorial monument to commemorate the victims of the Great Tokyo Air Raid similar to the "Cornerstone of Peace" (Heiwa no Ishiji) in Itoman, Okinawa Prefecture, where the ...