Okinawa

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• 3/6/2020
  

  A Price to Be Paid

  by Col. Arthur Shaw (Ret.) and Robert L. Wise

  None of us had any idea how terrible the cost would be before we finished taking Okinawa. The casual observer might have concluded that the landing was so easy, war must be a walk in the park.

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• 3/6/2020
  

  Kamikazes at the Battle of Okinawa

  by Joseph Wheelan

  On May 6, 1945, a twin-engine kamikaze plane’s bomb exploded beside the destroyer Luce, part of the radar picket ship screen surrounding Okinawa, and ripped her starboard side “like a sardine can.” 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  11/10/19
  

  Navy Submarine, Missing for 75 Years, Is Found Off Okinawa

  Private explorers found the U.S.S. Grayback beneath 1,400 feet of water after realizing that a mistranslated Japanese war record had pointed searchers in the wrong direction.    

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• SOURCE: CNN
  12-6-16
  

  US returning land to Japan on Okinawa it's controlled since World War II

  The return follows years of protests of US presence in Okinawa.

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  2-19-16
  

  We knew it but now it's confirmed: Nuclear Weapons on Okinawa Declassified

  Photographs of nukes have been available since 1990. 

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• SOURCE: The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
  1-18-16
  

  Battle Stations—Okinawa in 2016

  by Gavan McCormack

  The year 2016 might turn out to be a decisive one in the long-running contest between the Japanese state and Okinawa prefecture over the construction of a new base for the US.

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• SOURCE: The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
  3-16-15
  

  Japan’s Abe Shinzo’s Plan to Dominate Okinawa

  by Gavan McCormack

  A grand, and massively unequal, struggle over the future of Japan is underway. It’s Okinawa’s protesters against the weight of Abe’s government.

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• 1-5-15
  

  This Is Why We Should Remember the Battle of Okinawa

  by Ota Masahide

  The Battle of Okinawa was distinct from all other battles in the Pacific War in that it was fought in one of the 47 prefectures of Japan, with the majority of the resident civilian population still present.

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• SOURCE: NY Review of Books
  10-23-14
  

  Okinawa: Why They Chose Death

  by Jonathan Mirsky

  The huge US offensive in Okinawa—the only part of Japan where US forces fought on the ground—lasted eighty-two days in the spring of 1945 and cost about as many lives altogether as the atom bombs themselves.

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• SOURCE: The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
  8-11-14
  

  All Agent Orange Ingredients Unearthed at U.S. Military Dumpsite on Okinawa

  This is the first time that all three ingredients have been discovered on ex-Pentagon property on Okinawa.

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• 6-13-14
  

  The Most Haunting Interview You'll Ever Read: When Japanese Islanders Were Ordered to Commit Mass Suicide

  by Kinjo Shigeaki (Interviewed by Michael Bradley)

  "I don’t remember exactly how we killed our mother, maybe we tried to use rope at first, but in the end we hit her over the head with stones."

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• 3-10-14
  

  Why the U.S. Has So Many Bases on Okinawa

  by John W. Dower

  The establishment of a U.S. military fiefdom on Okinawa was part of the Cold War practice of dividing nations.

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• SOURCE: The Mainichi
  10-30-13
  

  Japan pressed U.S. in 1957 summit for deadline on Okinawa's return

  But the Japanese prime minister endorsed the continuing presence of U.S. forces in Okinawa.