{"id":1146,"date":"2025-06-23T07:10:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T07:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/battle-of-okinawa-1945-memories-of-fire-flight-and-loss\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T07:10:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T07:10:45","slug":"battle-of-okinawa-1945-memories-of-fire-flight-and-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/battle-of-okinawa-1945-memories-of-fire-flight-and-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle of Okinawa 1945: Memories of fire, flight and loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The town of Nishihara, at the center of Okinawa Island, lost half of its residents in the 1945 Battle of Okinawa.<\/p>\n<p>Yoshiko Goya, 88, who was born in the town&rsquo;s Kohatsu area &mdash; the site of fierce fighting between Japanese and U.S. forces during World War II &mdash; has never forgotten the days when she desperately tried to flee the ravages of war with her family and relatives.<\/p>\n<p>Then age 8, Goya saw her younger sister killed by the bombings right before her. Her other sister, who was a baby, died in her mother&rsquo;s arms while they were trying to get away from the carnage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Battle of Okinawa 1945: Memories of fire, flight and loss<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The town of Nishihara, at the center of Okinawa Island, lost half of its residents in the 1945 Battle of Okinawa. Yoshiko Goya, 88, who was born in the town&rsquo;s Kohatsu area &mdash; the site of fierce fighting between Japanese and U.S. forces during World War II &mdash; has never forgotten the days when she&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/battle-of-okinawa-1945-memories-of-fire-flight-and-loss\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Battle of Okinawa 1945: Memories of fire, flight and loss&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}