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Except the Okinawan people were caught in the middle. They were only fully colonized by the Japanese 70 years before. The battle of Okinawa was planned by the Japanese imperial army as a way to earn time to prepare for the defense of the main Japanese islands. Okinawan people had developed a culture of being a peaceful bridge between nations for centuries before. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_of_Nations_Bell
There are many other nightmarish stories about what they had to go through.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himeyuri_students
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsushima_Maru