Welfare minister visits Battle of Okinawa memorial

Welfare minister visits Battle of Okinawa memorial

NAHA, Japan - Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Chikara Sakaguchi touches the Cornerstone of Peace in the Peace Memorial Park in Itoman, Okinawa on July 11. Sakaguchi paid special tribute to the leprosy patients at state-run sanitariums who were killed in the 1945 Battle of Okinawa.

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