Dance on eve of Battle of Okinawa anniversary

ITOMAN, Japan - A woman in traditional Ryukyu attire dances in Itoman, Okinawa Prefecture, on June 22, 2010, the eve of the 65th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Okinawa in which more than 200,000 people were killed in the closing days of World War II.

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