A ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker is under fire for describing a memorial dedicated to female student nurses who ...

Clarence Craft earned the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Okinawa in May 1945. Here, 6th Division Marines ...

Shoji Nishida, a Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) member of Japan's House of Councillors, has made outrageous remarks that ...

The Himeyuri Peace Museum, however, rejected Nishida's claim, saying that there are no such descriptions on the premises, which include a cenotaph built in memory of over 200 female students and ...

During the trip, they will pray for the more than 200,000 people who lost their lives eight decades ago in the Battle of Okinawa, the largest ground battle in Japan during World War II.

Tokyo, May 8 (Jiji Press)--Shoji Nishida of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party has refused to withdraw his remarks over exhibits about "Himeyuri" nursing corps who died in the fierce Battle ...

Okinawa fell into U.S. hands in the closing months of World War II in 1945 through the Battle of Okinawa, which began in March of that year with the landing of U.S. troops on the Kerama Islands near ...

Japan's Emperor and Empress, along with their daughter, will visit the southern prefecture of Okinawa early next month to commemorate 80 years since a fierce battle there near the end of World War ...

Hundreds of participants in full costume gathered in Mexico City on Monday to mark the 1862 Mexican victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla. Dressed as Mexican and French soldiers ...