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Testimony in Battle of Okinawa mass suicides case confusingDate Posted: 2007-09-13 A witness told the court it would have been impossible for mass suicides to have been accomplished without having been ordered by a military commander. The testimony contradicts Kenzaburo Oe, who writes in a new book that the concept is wrong. Oe believes Japanese officers did not order the deaths, a contention challenged by Okinawans who survived the battle. The lawsuit seeks to block publication of Nobel Prize author Oe’s book. Oe’s attorneys say the witness testimony contradicts known evidence as to what happened on Okinawa during the battle, which raged three months in Spring 1945. |
   
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