Japanese-American WWII veteran pays 1st postwar visit to Okinawa

U.S. war veteran Harold Okumura (L) reunites on April 1, 2015, with islanders who were housed in a prison camp in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, southwestern Japan, during and after the Battle of Okinawa in World War II. Okumura, a third-generation Japanese-American living in Hawaii, fought in the battle as a U.S. military interpreter and worked in Okinawa between June 1945 and fall 1946. It was his first visit to Okinawa since the war. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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