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The Peace Memorial Museum, Peace Prayer Park, and the Cornerstone of Peace were established in 1975 on Mabuni Hill, next to the "Suicide Cliffs" where the Battle of Okinawa ended. [1] The Cornerstone of Peace is a semi-circular avenue of stones engraved with the names of all the dead from the Battle of Okinawa, organized by nationality (or by ...
Okinawa Prefectural Peace Park. The site chosen for the memorial is Mabuni Hill in Itoman City, site of the Japanese headquarters and scene of heavy fighting in late June 1945 at the end of the Battle of Okinawa. [2] [9] [10] The area forms part of the Okinawa Senseki Quasi-National Park (沖縄戦跡国定公園). [11]
Much of the heritage of the Ryūkyū Kingdom and Islands was destroyed during the Battle of Okinawa. The mausoleum complex of Tamaudun , Shuri Castle , Katsuren Castle , Nakagusuku Castle , Nakijin Castle , Zakimi Castle , Sefa-utaki , and Sonohyan-utaki all form part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the ...
Himeyuri Peace Museum (ひめゆり平和祈念資料館, Himeyuri Heiwa Kinen Shiryōkan) opened in Itoman, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan in 1989. Located within Okinawa Senseki Quasi-National Park , it is dedicated to the Himeyuri Student Corps during the Battle of Okinawa and to the ideal of Peace .
The Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum (沖縄県立博物館・美術館, Okinawa Kenritsu Hakubutsukan Bijutsukan), or Okimu for short, is a museum in the most southern prefecture of Japan. [1] The museum complex in the Omoro-machi area of Naha, the capital city of Okinawa Prefecture. It opened in November 2007, and includes art ...
Cornerstone of peace from a distance The Cornerstone of Peace, memorial to all those who died in the Battle of Okinawa. Okinawa Memorial Day (慰霊の日, Irei no Hi, lit. "the day to console the dead") is a public holiday observed in Japan's Okinawa Prefecture annually on June 23 to remember the lives lost during the Battle of Okinawa.
Google Maps Street View Trekker backpack being implemented on the sidewalk of the Hudson River Greenway in New York City. In late 2014, Google launched Google Underwater Street View, including 2,300 kilometres (1,400 mi) of the Australian Great Barrier Reef in 3D. The images are taken by special cameras which turn 360 degrees and take shots ...
Okinawa Senseki Quasi-National Park (沖縄戦跡国定公園, Okinawa Senseki Kokutei Kōen) is a Quasi-National Park around the battlefields of south Okinawa, Japan. It was established as a Prefectural Park in 1965 and redesignated with the return of Okinawa to Japanese administration in 1972.