Justin McCurry (@justinmmccurry.bsky.social)

Guardian photographer David Levene and I travelled to Okinawa a couple of months ago to make this video/text/photography package to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Okinawa. A real team effort that would not have been possible without colleagues in Okinawa, London and Sydney.

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Okinawa was the bloodiest battle of the Pacific war. 80 years on, are the dead being betrayed? A quarter of Okinawan civilians died during the US invasion, some after being told to kill themselves. But today the legacy of the war dead is being complicated by the presence of tens of thousands of... https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/jun/10/okinawa-was-the-bloodiest-battle-of-the-pacific-war-80-years-on-are-the-dead-being-betrayed