Former Japanese Navy Underground Headquarters
Concrete-lined wartime tunnel complex twenty meters underground, its walls still scarred by grenade blasts from a nineteen forty-five mass suicide.
This guide to the Former Japanese Navy Underground Headquarters in Okinawa starts in the grenade-scarred room where Imperial Navy staff officers gathered as American troops closed in on the Oroku Peninsula in June nineteen forty-five. It traces the tunnels three thousand navy engineers carved a year earlier, four hundred fifty meters of concrete-reinforced passage built to shelter four thousand people, and follows Rear Admiral Minoru Ota as the wounded and dying filled the complex. On the sixth of June, Ota sent Tokyo a telegram praising the Okinawan islanders conscripted into a fight that was never theirs.
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