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Shattering Jewels: 110,000 Okinawans Protest Japanese State Censorship of Compulsory Group Suicides

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

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“I'm over by the gym,” my friend Kinjo Minoru told me on his cell phone. I'd been standing at the entrance to Ginowan Seashore Park, site of the “Okinawa Citizens' Protest Demanding Cancellation of Textbook Revisions.” The crowd was so big I got tired of looking for him. I'd arrived late, so Asai Mayumi, an editor at Labor Report magazine who had come earlier with Mr. Kinjo, made her way through the crowd to find me.

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