, at Okinawa Peace Memorial Park in Itoman, Okinawa Prefecture, on June 22, 2021.... The torch is seen

.... Children pray in front of the" Peace of Fire" at the Peace Memorial Park in Itoman, Okinawa, Japan

A Japanese prisoner of war stands at the grave of Lt.... Question: When did the Battle of Okinawa, which started in late March 1945, end?... Answer: Following the landing of U.S. forces on the main island of Okinawa on April 1, 1945, and the subsequence advance across the island, Japan's 32nd Imperial Army abandoned its encampment under Shuri Castle, now in the city of Naha, at the end of May....

But during that time, the Japanese government went forward with construction to relocate U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in the central Okinawa prefectural city of Ginowan to the Henoko district of Nago in the northern part of the prefecture, reclaiming the coastal waters.... Day after day, large trucks go into Shiokawa Port in the northern prefectural town of Motobu, unloading soil onto ships inside the port, soil that is headed to Henoko to be used to reclaim the coastal waters.... 9,