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 ...

fold in the earth just north of Naha, U.S. Tenth Army infantrymen found out for sure what they had suspected all along: Okinawa would ... popping out of caves and old tombs to hurl grenades ...

Gushiken tries to imagine being in the cave during the fighting ... Of the estimated 188,140 Japan­ese killed in the Battle of Okinawa, most of their remains had been collected and placed ...

“Before the war, I was an ordinary student in Okinawa,” Dugal said. “Then, in March 1945, everything changed. The Americans were closing in. We were told to fight to the death. We fought in caves and ...

On May 4, 1945, off Okinawa, the USS Shea unleashed a storm of fire to down an enemy bomber, only to immediately face an even deadlier threat – a Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka, a piloted missile capable of ...

The three U.S. bases that China would likely have in its sights on for a Day One attack would be Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, Camp Humphreys in South Korea, and Kadena Air Base in Okinawa ...

A landscaper working on a historical film about the Battle of Okinawa uncovered human remains last summer on Ie Shima, marking the first such discovery on the island in more than 20 years ...

Japan's now-defunct Imperial military fought US forces in the southwestern prefecture 80 years ago in what is known as the Battle of Okinawa. More than 200,000 people, including civilians ...