People pray for victims of Battle of Okinawa

ITOMAN, Japan - A number of people visit a cenotaph in Itoman, Okinawa Prefecture, to pray for war victims on June 23 as people in the prefecture marked the 63rd anniversary of the end of the Battle of Okinawa in 1945. More than 200,000 Japanese and U.S. combatants and Japanese civilians died in the battle.

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