Forty-one names added to Cornerstone of Peace, total of 241,632 names

Forty-one names added to Cornerstone of Peace, total of 241,632 names

A worker engraves the names of individuals killed in action that are being newly added to the Cornerstone of Peace (morning of June 15, Nanjo City Stone Carvers’ Union of Okinawa)


June 16, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo

 

Engraving work to add the names of individuals killed in action to the Cornerstone of Peace has begun for this year. The Cornerstone of Peace has the names of people sacrificed in battles, like the Battle of Okinawa, engraved on it. On June 15, the lettering work was shared with the press at the Nanjo City workshop of the Stone Carvers’ Union of Okinawa. Forty-one names were engraved in stone.

 

Among the 41 names, 38 are Okinawans, while three individuals are from other parts of Jap

an. Two duplicate names were discovered and removed, leaving a total of 241,632 names. The newly added Okinawans included people from Naha, Motobu, and Taketomi. From the rest of Japan, two individuals from Tokyo were added, and one person from Nagasaki. The names include eleven children who were under six years old.

Junko Henzan is head of the peace promotion team of the section for women’s empowerment and promotion of peace in the Department of Child Care and Social Welfare. She says that eleven more names were added this year than in 2020, saying “we respond flexibly to all inquiries, so we want people to apply.”

 

(English translation by T&CT and Ellen Huntley)

 

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