“Try to imagine”–Okinawa Shogaku students teach Hiroshima high school students about the Battle of Okinawa, show them the footsteps of the Shiraume students
Okinawa Shogaku Senior High School Regional Laboratory students (right) tell Hiroshima Jogakuin Senior High School students (left) about the paths walked by the Shiraume students, on March 16 at the Shiraume Memorial Tower in Maezato, Itoman
April 2, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Sanenori Kinjo
“Please try to imagine: girls just ten years old going to sleep only to be soon awoken and forced to work all day long under harsh conditions.”
On March 16, the Okinawa Shogaku Senior High School Regional Laboratory guided high school students visiting Okinawa for a school trip on a tour of the paths walked by the Shiraume students mobilized as nursing personnel during the Battle of Okinawa.