A memorial outside reads ... pictures of warplanes and tanks. No place on Okinawa brings that tragedy home more than the Himeyuri Peace Museum, which tells the story of the Himeyuri Student ...

An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the scars remain, allowing visitors to get up close and touch history.

Takara heads a group that operates the Tsushima-maru Memorial Museum in Naha ... He said he has hoped that Okinawa would be a source of world peace, but in reality, U.S. bases are everywhere ...

People mourn at the Memorial ... Atomic Bomb Museum, urging the inclusion of Japan's wartime atrocities in its exhibits. Yutaka Yonemura, head of the Nagasaki Prefectural Peace Movement Center ...

He studied the history of Japan’s aggression of his own volition, visiting battle sites in Okinawa and the Pearl Harbor National Memorial ... to the Himeyuri Peace Museum in Itoman, which ...

Its Peace Memorial Museum is a top attraction due to its stark ... as opposed to the more pancake batter-style take on the dish found in Osaka. Okinawa is a two-hour flight away from Tokyo ...

Harumi Miyagi’s mother was a village employee on the small island of Zamami in Okinawa ... a memorial service for mass suicide victims was held in front of the “Heiwa no tou” peace tower ...

Minomaki Tomoyuki, President of the Hiroshima Prefectural Confederation of A-bomb Sufferers ... will visit Hiroshima and the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum so they can learn about the reality of ...