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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">>>You can't take two steps without running in to a memorial to someone...especially war dead. There was something odd and sad about how much of the town is about soldiers who've died in the service of their country.<<</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">Don't tour Okinawa, if this sort of thing bothers you.... Except for the fully booked golf and other Japanese resorts (some owned by big Japanese corporations-- for use by their employees), most of the tourist attractions are some sort of war memorial, and in case you somehow avoid these, there are smaller tributes at other sorts of tourist attractions. And family tombs are just about everywhere (whole hillsides sometimes ... look like small cities, except the horizon seems to be too close).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">Mind you, these are not memorials just for dead politicians or soldiers, but also for schoolgirls ("Cave of Virgins") and the underground bunkers, etc., where the Imperial Japanese forces more or less directed their last campaigns against Allied forces (and the hillside where their officers committed suicide after the surrender). </FONT></DIV>
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