Residents prayed for peace and remembered their loved ones on the 75th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Okinawa.
One of the bloodiest conflicts of World War II was fought on the southern Japanese island that still has a heavy U.S. troop presence.
The governor of Okinawa said the conflict must be remembered accurately for future generations at the ceremony held to remember 200,000 who died in the fighting near the war’s end.
More than half of some 50,000 U.S. troops stationed in Japan today are on Okinawa.
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