Japan pays the US $1.4 billion each year for the bases in Okinawa, which underpin their military alliance. Okinawa, Japan's ...

The remains may include those of students who were mobilized as student soldiers and died during the fierce Battle of Okinawa ... in a crevice of a rock at the cave in Itoman where many soldiers ...

Clarence Craft earned the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Okinawa in May 1945. Here, 6th Division Marines rest behind a wall during a pause in fighting in the southern part of ...

Clarence Craft earned the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Okinawa in May 1945 ... down the central trench to a camouflaged cave mouth and passed him a bag of explosives ...

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 ...

in a memorial service at the Chibichiri Gama cave in the village of Yomitan. The mass suicide occurred in April 1945 during the Battle of Okinawa, the largest ground battle in Japan during the war.

The World War II Battle of Okinawa left an estimated 240,000 ... Bone digger Takamatsu Gushiken, who spends his time in caves in Okinawa, explained to CNN that of the 1,400 sets of remains ...

looking to turn up the remains of people who hid in caves like this one during the World War II Battle of Okinawa. This is the life’s work of the bone digger, Takamatsu Gushiken. He spends much ...