{"id":30042,"date":"2021-03-22T15:47:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T06:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/22\/okinawa-us-airbase-soil-war-dead-soldiers-japan"},"modified":"2021-03-22T15:47:07","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T06:47:07","slug":"soil-to-build-new-us-airbase-on-okinawa-contains-remains-of-war-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30042","title":{"rendered":"Soil to build new US airbase on Okinawa &#8216;contains remains of war dead&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Volunteers searching for the remains of those killed in the 1945 Battle of Okinawa demand Japan\u2019s defence ministry call a halt to work<\/p>\n<p>Millions of cubic metres of soil due to be used to build a controversial US airbase on the Japanese island of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/apr\/17\/okinawa-musicians-focus-japanese-protest-military-bases\">Okinawa<\/a> contains the remains of Japanese and Americans who died in one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific war, according to citizen excavators.<\/p>\n<p>The volunteers, who search for the bones of people killed or who killed themselves during the 1945 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2007\/jul\/06\/japan.schoolsworldwide\">Battle of Okinawa<\/a>, have demanded that Japan\u2019s defence ministry end work to clear the land, calling it an affront to the dignity of the war dead.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/22\/okinawa-us-airbase-soil-war-dead-soldiers-japan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volunteers searching for the remains of those killed in the 1945 Battle of Okinawa demand Japan\u2019s defence ministry call a halt to workMillions of cubic metres of soil due to be used to build a controversial US airbase on the Japanese island of Okinawa &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,220,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-second-world-war","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30043,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30042\/revisions\/30043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}