November 6, 2011 Ryukyu Shimpo
On November 5, at the Mawashi branch of JA-Okinawa in Naha, a public lecture entitled “Following mental trauma from the Battle of Okinawa” was held by the Society for Research on Mental Health in the Battle of Okinawa. Ryoji Aritsuka, a doctor of psychosomatic medicine at the Okinawa Kyodo Hospital, explained the realities of late-onset post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) triggered by an experience in the Battle of Okinawa. PTSD can manifest itself...
October 25, 2011 Ryukyu Shimpo
By October 24, a worker carrying out a magnetic survey in farmland in Kuniyoshi Ward in Itoman City as part of the nation’s broad-scale excavation project had found approximately 100 items of unexploded ordnance thought to be from the former Imperial Japanese...
October 5, 2011 Ryukyu Shimpo
Mark Ealey, a 54 year-old translator and researcher who resides in Christchurch, New Zealand, arrived in Okinawa on September 30 on the Japan Foundation’s Research Fellowship Program. He is translating the series of articles published under the title of Senka...
August 26, 2011 Yukiyo Zaha of Ryukyu Shimpo
On August 21, in conjunction with the Urasoe Board of Education, the Urasoe City Guides (headed by Hiromasa Awamori), a nonprofit organization that runs tours of the historical sites and cultural assets of Urasoe City, carried out a tour around Urasoe...
August 18, 2011 by Kenyu Uchima and Wakako Oshiro of Ryukyu Shimpo
Papers of the United States National Archives recently revealed that during the 1960s, the period of the Vietnam War, the U.S. military carried out training with small nuclear weapons at Camp Hague, located in what was then...
July 20, 2011 Eriko Tamaki of Ryukyu Shimpo
Two picture books have been published that tell the story of female high school students who joined nursing units in the Imperial Japanese Army during the Battle of Okinawa. They are the Himeyuri Picture Book (Himeyuri Alumnae Incorporated...
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