Takashiki hides a darker part of the history of the Battle of Okinawa when the American forces landed on the island on March the 27th, 1945. The next day, on March the 28th, 394 inhabitants of Tokashiki, mostly from farming families, at the command of Japanese soldiers, committed a mass suicide using grenades, practice known as shūdan jikketsu. The group suicide on Tokashiki in late March was the prelude to large scale group suicides on Okinawa Island in the following months. Many historians and survivors blame Japanese military propaganda that forced to make civilians believe that they would faced rape and torture if they were captured by Americans forces. Also, the education system that taught that sacrificing their own lives for the Japanese emperor who was regarded as a living god.
Frog on the border 