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Okinawa References
While reading Irei no Hi news online I came across this nice archive of articles that one of the two dailies in Okinawa, Okinawa Times has digitized and posted in their “60 year since end of war web” special. It has all Irei no Hi articles they published since 1962, when it was first formally [...]
慰霊の日 (Irei no Hi, Memorial Day)
June 23 is Irei no Hi (Memorial Day) in Okinawa. This was the day in 1945 when organized resistence against U.S. forces ended in the Battle of Okinawa following the ritual suicides of Lt. Generals Ushijima Mitsuru and Cho Isamu on Mabuni Hill on the southernmost tip of the island. Some Okinawans reject this day [...]