A US Army cameraman filming the fierce US-Japan ground war in Okinawa did his job "filming US soldiers fighting bravely" at first. But after he witnessed the terrible suffering of Okinawans, he couldn't stand it. The cameraman started to photograph the entire war, but his film was censored by the U.S. military. NHK produced a documentary on his experience in 2011 and it will be rebroadcast tomorrow.
The U.S. military recorded the Battle of Okinawa on film in detail; however Okinawan civilian noncombatants and locations were not identified. Over 140,000 Okinawan civilians were killed. Combatant deaths were significantly lower: around 12,000 US soldiers and 70,000 Japanese soldiers.
The "One-foot Film Movement", an Okinawan postwar grassroots organization bought documentary film (one foot at a time) from U.S. government archives — to preserve the memory of these people, their families, their wartime history and to show why the Okinawan people desire peace. The nonprofit started in 1983 as the Civil Movement to Provide Children With Lessons of the Battle of Okinawa and closed its 30-year operations in 2013 at a ceremony held at the Yashio Rest House in Naha. The organization had collected 50 hours of film.
In a 2005 documentary , a NHK director searched for the real people and places in these films, the visible memory of their wartime experience. Over 240,000 people were killed during the fierce US-Japanese ground war in Okinawa. What was the truth of this war?
Schedule: http://www.nhk.or.jp/okinawa/okinawasen70/archives/
Info on broadcast and more on the ground war between the US and Japan in Okinawa via Okinawa Prefectural Peace Center (沖縄国際平和研究所):
沖縄国際平和研究所が、資料提供をさせていただいた番組および沖縄戦関連番組の放送予定をお知らせします。
＝沖縄戦関連番組＝
『戦後70年企画 NHKが見つめた沖縄戦』
http://www.nhk.or.jp/okinawa/okinawasen70/archives/
「カメラマンが見た沖縄戦 隠された戦場の事実」
(2011年6月26日放送)
■日にち：2015年4月12日(日)13:50～
■放送局：NHK沖縄
※沖縄県域での放送です。
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