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‘Do we have peace now?’ poem by Okinawa teen Chinen Masaru

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Roger Pulvers
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Chinen Masaru, 17, a third-year student at Okinawa Prefectural Yokatsu Senior High School, recited his poem, “Miruku yu ga yayura” (Do we have peace now?), at an Okinawa Memorial Day ceremony on the seventieth anniversary of the end of the Battle of Okinawa at Peace Memorial Park in Itoman on June 23. He expressed his desire to let neither his great aunt's memories nor the misery of war be forgotten. The following is a translation of the poem's full text.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 13 , Issue 27 , July 2015 , e1
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