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80th anniv. of U.S. forces landing on Okinawan island

A photo exhibition is held on Zamami Island in the southern Japan prefecture of Okinawa on March 26, 2025, the 80th anniversary of the landing of the U.S. forces on the Kerama Islands during the closing days of World War II.

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80th anniv. of U.S. forces landing on Okinawan island

A photo exhibition is held on Zamami Island in the southern Japan prefecture of Okinawa on March 26, 2025, the 80th anniversary of the landing of the U.S. forces on the Kerama Islands during the closing days of World War II.

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Memorial ceremony in Okinawa

A memorial ceremony is held on March 26, 2025, on Zamami Island in the southern Japan prefecture of Okinawa to mark the 80th anniversary of the landing of the U.S. forces on the Kerama Islands during the closing days of World War II.

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Nobel laureate Oe believes military order behind mass suicides

OSAKA, Japan - Nobel Prize-winning novelist Kenzaburo Oe arrives at the Osaka District Court on Nov. 9 to testify in a hearing on a suit filed against him. Yutaka Umezawa, 90, who was the garrison commander on Zamami Island in the Okinawa island chain during World War II, is seeking to halt the publication of three books by Oe which Umezawa argues wrongly state that military officers on Zamami and Tokashiki islands in Okinawa Prefecture ordered civilians to commit mass suicide in 1945 during the Battle of Okinawa.

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Kerama Islands haunted by wartime mass suicides

ZAMAMI, Japan - Hideo Higa, a guide for the Battle of Okinawa, stands in front of Yamatomma Trench on Zamami Island on March 8, where mass suicides took place under pressure from Japanese soldiers. The island in the village of Zamami, Okinawa Prefecture, is one of Kerama Islands, some 40 kilometers west of Naha on the main island of Okinawa.

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Underwater ruins in Okinawa

TOKYO, Japan - Divers swim above giant stones that were arranged in a circle off Aka island, in the Kerama group of islets in Zamami, Okinawa Prefecture. The photo was taken on Nov. 29, 1996. (Kyodo)

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70th anniv. of U.S. landing on Kerama Islands in WWII

Fumio Hirata, a survivor of World War II, speaks on March 26, 2015, on Zamami Island, Okinawa Prefecture, at a memorial service held on the 70th anniversary of the 1945 landing of U.S. troops on the Kerama Islands during the Second World War. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Memorial ceremony on Zamami

A memorial ceremony is held March 26, 2015, on Zamami Island, Okinawa Prefecture in southwestern Japan, to mark the 70th anniversary of the landing of the U.S. forces on the Kerama Islands including Zamami during the closing days of World War II, to mourn for the victims and renew a pledge not to fight a war again. The U.S. forces launched ground fighting in the area in the early morning on March 26, 1945. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Memorial ceremony on Zamami

A memorial ceremony is held March 26, 2015, on Zamami Island, Okinawa Prefecture in southwestern Japan, to mark the 70th anniversary of the landing of the U.S. forces on the Kerama Islands including Zamami during the closing days of World War II, to mourn for the victims and renew a pledge not to fight a war again. The U.S. forces launched ground fighting in the area in the early morning on March 26, 1945. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kerama Islands haunted by wartime mass suicides

ZAMAMI, Japan - Hideo Higa, a guide for the Battle of Okinawa, stands in front of Yamatomma Trench on Zamami Island on March 8, where mass suicides took place under pressure from Japanese soldiers. The island in the village of Zamami, Okinawa Prefecture, is one of Kerama Islands, some 40 kilometers west of Naha on the main island of Okinawa. (Kyodo)

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Nobel laureate Oe believes military order behind mass suicides

OSAKA, Japan - Nobel Prize-winning novelist Kenzaburo Oe arrives at the Osaka District Court on Nov. 9 to testify in a hearing on a suit filed against him. Yutaka Umezawa, 90, who was the garrison commander on Zamami Island in the Okinawa island chain during World War II, is seeking to halt the publication of three books by Oe which Umezawa argues wrongly state that military officers on Zamami and Tokashiki islands in Okinawa Prefecture ordered civilians to commit mass suicide in 1945 during the Battle of Okinawa. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

People wait for the arrival of a Tokyo Olympic torch relay runner on May 2, 2021, in Zamami in Japan's southernmost island prefecture of Okinawa.

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

A Tokyo Olympic torch relay participant raises the Olympic flame on a traditional rowboat on May 2, 2021, off Zamami in Japan's southernmost island prefecture of Okinawa. (Pool photo)

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

The Tokyo Olympic flame is passed from torch to torch by relay participants on traditional rowboats on May 2, 2021, off Zamami in Japan's southernmost island prefecture of Okinawa. (Pool photo)

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

The Tokyo Olympic flame is passed from torch to torch by relay participants on traditional rowboats on May 2, 2021, off Zamami in Japan's southernmost island prefecture of Okinawa. (Pool photo)

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

Model and actor Shogen carries the Olympic flame on a traditional rowboat during the Tokyo Olympic torch relay on May 2, 2021, off Zamami in Japan's southernmost island prefecture of Okinawa.