Been there and it was most interesting, the tourists just walked about checking every thing out. I noticed at one side a group of Japanese on their knees praying.
I was very young but I realised this was serious as most at that time Japanese visitors once off the plane took picture of everything even their own feet.
Not one camera in sight and the group was not looking about, they had to be as I a [main lander] saw it praying.
Why, we had been their enemy, to this day I do not know why they paused to pray, was it from respect or from guilt?
This shrine is set atop of those that died beneath it. The setting is in for us never before gone to the islands a speculates spot. The mountains that semi-ring the harbor look like God had taken pinking shears to the mountains,
What to say standing on the monument, knowing what was beneath, then looking up at the descendants of the cause were praying for those underneath.
One of the few places on earth is this shrine as gut retching yet so peacefull. This is indeed a most holey place not just for the victims but for the aggressors and all man kind that wage war on others to enslave..
