Progress from the War YearsVideos Testimonies of War Survivors During and After World War II

List of testimonies

My Post-War Experience: Living with a Hungry Spirit

Ms. Michiko Uehara

Birth year:1935

Birth place:Itoman City

Road to International Peace from Mabuni

Mr. Zenichi Yoshimine

Birth year:1932

Birth place:Naha City

Unchike sabira ( “Do not worry, I will show you the way.”)

Ms. Yasuko Onaga

Birth year:1929

Birth place:Naha City

My Post-War Years as an Educator: Instilling a New Ideas

Mr. Touroku Oshiro

Birth year:1930

Birth place:Itoman City

My Post-War Years and the Sea

Mr. Hideo Nakamura

Birth year:1929

Birth place:Motobu Town

American Internment and My Post-War Life

Mr. Shotoku Asato

Birth year:1930

Birth place:Peru

A Better Life Through Ladies’ Groups After the War

Ms. Keiko Matsuda

Birth year:1927

Birth place:Yomitan Village

Rebuilding the Hometown School

Mr. Kanyu Iha

Birth year:1928

Birth place:Yomitan Village

Henza City and My Life After the War

Mr. Shokou Okudara

Birth year:1929

Birth place:Henza, Uruma City

The Changing Life of the Islands and Treasures to Preserve

Ms. Tomi Ito

Birth year:1928

Birth place:Henza, Uruma City

My Life during Yonaguni’s Prosperous Era

Ms. Chieko Nagahama

Birth year:1933

Birth place:Yonaguni Town

A Fisherman’s Wife and her Vital Role as a Homemaker

Ms. Hatsuko Otomo

Birth year:1935

Birth place:Yonaguni Town

Crossing the Manchurian Deadline

Mr. Keisei Kawamitsu

Birth year:1933

Birth place:Miyakojima City

Me, a Sashiba (Grey-faced Buzzard), and an Octopus Trap

Mr. Keikichi Yamazato

Birth year:1943

Birth place:Miyakojima City

My Post-War Life in Taira

Mr. Tokujiro Shimabukuro

Birth year:1936

Birth place:Nago City

Life in Yanbaru in Wartime

Ms. Hatsuko Higa

Birth year:1929

Birth place:Nago City

Becoming a Dressmaker: My Life After the War

Ms. Tomiko Nakamura

Birth year:1934

Birth place:Haebaru City

The Judicial Path: Towards Human Rights

Mr. Saneyoshi Furugen

Birth year:1929

Birth place:Kunigaimi Village

Ie Island: A Battered Island

Mr. Seitoku Shimabukuro

Birth year:1937

Birth place:Ie Village

Ie Island During and After the War

Mr. Kamekichi Uchima

Birth year:1937

Birth place:Ie Village

Hardships of the Taiwanese Immigrants Who Pioneered the Yaeyama Islands

Mr. Nagamasa Shimada

Birth year:1944

Birth place:Ishigaki City

Armistice, Defeat, the End of War, and My Post-war Years

Mr. Yuzuru Masaki

Birth year:1934

Birth place:Ishigaki City

The War in Yaeyama Islands through Pictures

Mr. Masamichi Shiohira

Birth year:1933

Birth place:Ishigaki City

Two Faces of America: Land Requisition and Agricultural Advancement in Hawaii

Mr. Zenyu Shimabukuro

Birth year:1936

Birth place:Okinawa City

Repatriation from Saipan

Mr. Masao Arime

Birth year:1931

Birth place:Saipan

Crossing the Faraway Ocean: My Life After the War

Mr. Kinzo Sunagawa

Birth year:1928

Birth place:Miyakojima City

Okinawa Airakuen: Keeping Alive the Lights and Shadows

Mr. Jinyu Taira

Birth year:1939

Birth place:Kumejima Town

A Life Working With Bashofu

Ms. Toshiko Taira

Birth year:1920

Birth place:Ogimi Village

My Post-war Experience as a Tsushima-maru Survivor

Ms. Keiko Taira

Birth year:1934

Birth place:Kunigami Village

Left Behind on the Battlefield

Mr. Satoshige Kuba

Birth year:1935

Birth place:Naha City