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Okinawa Memorial Day, the Glossary

Index Okinawa Memorial Day

is a public holiday observed in Japan's Okinawa Prefecture annually on June 23 to remember the lives lost during the Battle of Okinawa.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 8 relations: Battle of Okinawa, Government of the Ryukyu Islands, Isamu Chō, Mitsuru Ushijima, Occupation of Japan, Okinawa Prefecture, Public holidays in Japan, Ryukyuan people.

  2. Culture in Okinawa Prefecture
  3. Public holidays in Japan

Battle of Okinawa

The, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Army and United States Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army.

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Government of the Ryukyu Islands

The was the self-government of native Okinawans during the American occupation of Okinawa.

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Isamu Chō

was an officer in the Imperial Japanese Army known for his support of ultranationalist politics and involvement in a number of attempted coup d'états in pre-World War II Japan.

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Mitsuru Ushijima

was a Japanese general who served during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.

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Occupation of Japan

Japan was occupied and administered by the Allies of World War II from the surrender of the Empire of Japan on September 2, 1945, at the war's end until the Treaty of San Francisco took effect on April 28, 1952.

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Okinawa Prefecture

is the southernmost and westernmost prefecture of Japan.

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Public holidays in Japan

were first established by the of 1948.

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Ryukyuan people

The Ryukyuan people (Ruuchuu minzuku or label, Ryūkyū minzoku, also Okinawans, Uchinaanchu, Lewchewan or Loochooan) are a Japonic-speaking East Asian ethnic group native to the Ryukyu Islands, which stretch between the islands of Kyushu and Taiwan.

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See also

Culture in Okinawa Prefecture

Public holidays in Japan

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawa_Memorial_Day

Also known as Irei no Hi.