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“Banzai!” The Compulsory Mass Suicide of Kerama Islanders in the Battle of Okinawa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Michael Bradley
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This is the text of an interview with Kinjo Shigeaki (85) about his experience as a survivor of the compulsory mass suicides which occurred on Tokashiki Island, Okinawa in late March 1945. The interview took place on April 23rd 2014.

I am from the Kerama Islands, about 30 km off the coast of Naha, the capital of Okinawa. There are about 10 islands in the group.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 11 , Issue 22 , June 2013 , e5
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