A Trip to Okinawa 4: The Island of the Bases and Trip for Memorials

This is Kaoru Hayahi's Okinawa forth photo book, "A Trip to Okinawa 4: The Island of the Bases and Trip for Memorials".

This work is not a guide book that goes over all of Okinawa, but using "The Island of Bases and Trip for Memorial" as a theme. As a personal response to the largest far-eastern air force base Kadena, and the relocation issue of Futenma, the post war reality of Okinawa along side with US military force, and to the trip to the memorial sites of the Battle Of Okinawa which is said to have killed 200,000 people. As a response to this theme, Hayashi has recollected the 54 photographs he has taken in the trip and has written short comments to each photographs.

Hopefully this book will be an opportunity for you to think about the Battle of Okinawa that involved many civilians.