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Japanese island remembers 75 years since Battle of Okinawa
TOKYO – Residents on Okinawa prayed for peace and remembered their loved ones Tuesday on the 75th anniversary of the end of one of WWII's deadliest conflicts, the Battle of Okinawa, on the southern Japanese island that still has a heavy U.S. troop presence.At the ceremony held to remember more than 200,000 people, many of them civilians, who died in the fighting near the war's end, Okinawa Gov.