Citizens' groups have been working since mid-June to read out the names of victims such as the Battle of Okinawa engraved on the "Cornerstone of Peace" in Itoman City, Okinawa Prefecture, one by one online. I moved to "Peace Memorial Park" and read the name aloud all night.
The "Cornerstone of Peace" in Mabuni, Itoman City, Okinawa Prefecture, is engraved with the names of 241686 victims of the Battle of Okinawa.
Efforts to read all these names have been carried out online for 22 hours daily since June 12, with more than 1,500 participants.
From noon on the 22nd, the place was moved to the "Peace Memorial Park" and read aloud overnight, and on the morning of the 23rd, participants quietly spoke out the names of each victim.
A woman in her 40s who visited from Tokyo to learn about the Battle of Okinawa and participated in the reading aloud said, "Reading the name gave me a better idea that each victim might have had various things." I was talking.
Chie Miyagi, one of the members of the civic group that sponsored the event, said, "I want to send peace from Okinawa while feeling the weight of those lives and the loss of many lives in the Battle of Okinawa."