Women and children were also killed in the Battle of Okinawa at the end of the Pacific War, falling in folds as victims of the fighting between American and Japanese forces. The corpses may have been caught up with family members who committed mass suicide.

　　Folded bodies of women and children who were killed in the Battle of Okinawa, sacrificed in the fighting between American and Japanese forces, lie on the ground. The bodies may have been caught up with family members who committed mass suicide. It was thought to be the site of a horrific mass suicide in which family members, relatives, friends, and acquaintances killed each other.

　In the Pacific War, the only ground war in Japan was fought on Okinawa. When the U.S. forces landed, mass suicides took place on the main island of Okinawa and in the Kerama Islands. On Tokashiki Island, where the largest number of people committed suicide, 329 people were wiped out and died under the order of the village chief. During the Battle of Okinawa, acts of mass suicide by ordinary residents occurred and were referred to as mass suicides. The main cases of mass suicide were about 100 people at Ahashagama and other places in Ie Village, 11 people in Onna Village, more than 121 people at Chibichirigama and other places in Yomitan Village, 33 people in Misato, Okinawa City, 14 people in Gushigawa, Uruma City, 7 people in Tamaki, Yaese Town, 80 people at Kamintou shelter in Itoman City, 234 people on Zamami Island, 53 people on Keruma Island, 329 people on Tokashiki Island On Tokashiki Island, 329 people were killed in a mass suicide attack.

　The U.S. air raid on Okinawa that began on March 23, 1945, and the subsequent bombardment of the island by U.S. forces, marked the beginning of the only domestic war involving local residents in Japan during World War II. A large fleet of U.S. forces swept into the Kerama Islands. The residents were already prepared to commit mass suicide before becoming prisoners of war if they saw the American fleet invading the Kerama Islands.

　The people in the bunkers had put on their clothes and prepared to commit mass suicide, and by now they should all be dead by mass suicide. When I arrived at the shelter and peeked inside, I found that dozens of people had all died, not a single survivor. There were many more people who went into the shelter to commit mass suicide.

　There was an elderly couple whose husband was captured by the U.S. military when he killed his wife first. The husband said he had no choice but to let his wife die and live, so he went to a shelter about 30 meters away. He took out a bamboo spear that he had left in Australia and charged at the American soldier. He was shot dead right in front of him. The shot that rang out was the moment her husband was killed. Other methods of mass suicide on Keiruma Island included the use of razors. All of them committed mass suicide by hanging themselves from trees. They committed mass suicide with a poison that did not require a cat when it was used as a drug to kill rats.