Before the survivors stopped expecting anything like equal treatment, Okinawans used to wonder why so little attention was paid to their numbers. They felt it altogether right for mainland Japanese families to stream to the island to hold memorial services for their dead and to search for the bones of the missing. The annual expressions of international grief on the anniversary of Hiroshima's losses were also right and good — but how to explain the scant interest in the larger Okinawan ones?* While the atomic victims were categorized in minute detail by age, sex, occupation, distance from the
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