The original Shuri Castle was destroyed by the US Army and Marine Corps of the Tenth Army and by the US Navy. What burned today is a reproduction, a Disneyland.
Right, they can just re-build it again.
“This is the fifth time that Shuri Castle was destroyed following 1453, 1660, 1709 and 1945”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shurijo#2019_fire
I was in Munich once and walking around the main square with it's old medieval town hall with the fancy mechanical clock that everyone loves to stare up at. I came across a street vendor was selling postcards that had pictured of Munich after WW2. The main square was obliterated, there were just enough bits of building standing that you could tell it was the same place and it had been rebuilt in perfect replica. But it was in fact replica, the whole place. I brought that up to a German colleague and he said "After the war, every city of any size was destoryed. They all had to be rebuilt. Some cities, like Munich, decided to remake it exactly as it was. Others, like Frankfurt, decided to make a new shiny modern city."
So many of the places we tourists go to are not really what we think they are. But still, it's fun to be fooled and feel a connection, even a false one, to the past.
Half of population of Okinawa was killed. Okinawan boys as young as 14 were drafted by the Japanese to be on the front lines.
And still the Japanese refused to surrender.
Walking there gives you a good idea of why the Atomic bomb was necessary to end the war. The Japanese just were not going to give up for anything short of the threat of total annihilation.
And many of them not even for that.