Okinawa halts research on Korean victims of 1945 battle

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NAHA — The Okinawa prefectural government has halted research into the names of Koreans killed in the 1945 Battle of Okinawa between Japanese and U.S. forces, the local government and a South Korean scholar said Thursday.


The local government had commissioned the research by Hong Jong Pil, a professor at South Korea's Myongji University, to look into the names to be inscribed on the Cornerstone of Peace monument in Itoman, Okinawa Prefecture.

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