"Proof My Sister Lived. I Want to Tell My Parents From the Altar" "Mom, I'll Go Every Year" Family Members without Remains Express Deep Emotion at New Inscription on "Cornerstone of Peace"

[80 years since the end of the war] This year, 342 names will be added to the Cornerstone of Peace in Mabuni, Itoman, which commemorates the victims of the Battle of Okinawa and other battles. Families who applied for inscriptions to leave living testimony of the war dead whose remains are no longer there, and whose wishes were granted, feel a firm presence in the memory of their deceased, saying, "Now we can go and meet them."