Heiwa no Ishiji
It carves the name of every person who died in the Battle of Okinawa, regardless of nationality, soldier or civilian.
308 entries. Some places appear in more than one collection. Confirm visits with each facility.
INSTAGRAM / 6
No posts linked to this category have been collected yet. Showing posts from the prefecture's official accounts, rotating every minute.
7 entries / page 1 of 1
It carves the name of every person who died in the Battle of Okinawa, regardless of nationality, soldier or civilian.
It began with melting down bottles the US military threw away; the bubbles the impurities caused were kept as the point.
Founded by the surviving students themselves, who gathered the testimony and wrote the wall texts in their own words.
Over 240,000 names cut into folding stone walls - carved without dividing by nationality, uniform, or side.
Planks sewn together with cord and bamboo pegs; because it can be re-sewn when it splits, it went far out to sea.