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		</div><p>Shuri Castle – a UNESCO World Heritage site – has been nearly destroyed by fire.</p>
<p>Local police said the fire at Shuri Castle in Naha, the prefectural capital of Okinawa, started from its main structure.</p>
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<p>Okinawa police said the main Seiden temple and a Hokuden structure have burned down. A third structure was nearly destroyed.</p>
<figure id="attachment_143208" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-143208" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-143208" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/804F4351-F6AC-49E8-BDC7-AF9ECA079AE5.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="722" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-143208" class="wp-caption-text">A firefighter works in front of the burning north hall of Shuri Castle</figcaption></figure>
<p>Firefighters were still battling the blaze a few hours after the fire started early on Thursday and nearby residents were evacuated to safer areas, Okinawa police spokesman Ryo Kochi said.</p>
<p>Nobody has been injured and the cause of the fire is not immediately known.</p>
<p>Footage on NHK television showed the castle engulfed in orange flames.</p>
<p>The ancient castle is a symbol of Okinawa’s cultural heritage from the time of Ryukyu Kingdom that spanned about 450 years from 1429 until 1879 when the island was annexed by Japan.</p>
<figure id="attachment_143210" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-143210" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-143210" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/25B4F21B-B9CB-49CE-95C7-CD30A693CABF.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="400" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-143210" class="wp-caption-text">A fire spread among structures at Shuri Castle on Thursday</figcaption></figure>
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<p>The castle is also a symbol of Okinawa’s struggle and effort to recover from the Second World War.</p>
<p>Shuri Castle burned down in 1945 during the Battle of Okinawa near the war’s end, in which about 200,000 lives were lost on the island, many of them civilians.</p>
<p>The castle was largely restored in 1992 as a national park and was designated as the UNESCO World Heritage site in 2000.</p>
<p>Okinawa was under the US occupation until 1972, two decades after the rest of Japan regained full independence.</p>
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