Absolutely Cupkakes....did you - per chance - catch the Japanese series about Hateruma and the islanders desperation to keep their school open? It was superb.....I will drag my wife and two youngest kids there during northern Sakura (after we have done enough in Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka - (love the Osaka okonomiyaki) to this wonderful island....after a couple days on Okinawa to dwell on the suffering there during the war from all sides....They have an amazing monument to the war on the south of the island. Been there a few times. It is very poignant.
Even more poignant, and they weren't on our side - is these young ladies who tried their best and died valiantly under terrible circumstances:
Himeyuri students
They have a graphic monument not far from the main Okinawa WWII memorial....ten minute drive. Park across the street in the supermarket car-park....
It is a really tough slog to walk thru it.....
