The Diocese of Okinawa will hold its service for "Irei no hi" at 3pm on June 25 at All Souls Church, named after the souls lost in The Battle of Okinawa. For Americans unfamiliar with this day, the 23rd June – Irei no hi – is a public holiday in Okinawa (but not in mainland Japan) and commemorates the end of the Battle of Okinawa and the thousands of soldiers and civilians who died and whose names are inscribed on stone slabs in Heiwa Kinen Koen, the Peace Memorial Park at Itoman in the south of the island.