Japanese people assemble to pay their respects at a memorial ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the WWII Battle of Okinawa at Cornerstone of Peace Park in Itoman, on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa, June 23, 2005. (China Daily/Reuters Photo)
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi folds his hands in prayer for the victims of the WWII Battle of Okinawa at a memorial ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the battle in Itoman, on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa, June 23, 2005. Sixty years after the war's last great land battle left some 200,000 dead, survivors worry that lessons of the horrors of the war are fading. (China Daily/Reuters Photo)
