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  • Ugui Royal Portraits not seen since Battle of Okinawa, Recovered and Returned

  • Travis Seifman
  • Journal:
    Asia-Pacific Journal / Volume 22 / Issue 8 / August 2024
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    14 March 2025, e3
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  • Four ugui portraits of kings of the Okinawan kingdom of Lūchū (Ryūkyū) were returned to Okinawa in March 2024 along with sixteen other artifacts stolen by American soldiers during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa. These are the first such royal portraits to be confirmed extant, and the first such royal treasures to be recovered since 1953. This essay describes the repatriated portraits, as well as the theft and search for the royal treasures looted in 1945 and their cultural and emotional significance for a people who lost a great volume of their tangible heritage in World War II.

  • Chapter 11 - Yamato and the Specter of History

  • Brett L. Walker, Montana State University
  • Book:
    Yukikaze's War
    Published online:
    06 June 2024
    Print publication:
    06 June 2024, pp 234-253

  • Summary

    Chapter 11 explores Operation Ten-Go, the battleship Yamato’s suicide mission to defend Okinawa from Allied invasion. Yukikaze escorted Yamato and witnessed her destruction. By this juncture, a kamikaze spirit permeated the Imperial Japanese Navy, which had become consumed by its legacies in the eyes of history, rather than strategic successes.