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A clinical psychologist has formed grief care groups for survivors of war across Okinawa to help try to heal their emotional ...
For more than 40 years, Gushiken has volunteered to go into those caves and search for the remains of people who died in the Battle of Okinawa. “They still keep turning up,” he said.
Fighting was like that last week on Okinawa. In one Jap counterattack ... Among the ridges, spurs, knobs and gullies were innumerable caves and underground passages, to which the Japs added ...
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Japan's Emperor Naruhito and his family have prayed for all the war dead in one of the bloodiest battles of World War II ...
Human remains discovered on Okinawa in 2004 have been identified as those of a Japanese soldier, marking the first time DNA ...
Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family have visited Okinawa to pray for the war dead ahead of the 80th anniversary marking ...
A Marine on Okinawa received a Joint Service Achievement Medal for his role in recovering WWII remains on Guadalcanal.
It was a desperate plea from a boy that prevented a mass suicide on a remote island in Okinawa Prefecture when U.S. forces landed 80 years ago. On March 26, 1945, the Battle of Okinawa began with ...
Drop into the hole (screenshot below, left) leading to the Dragon Roost Island Battle Cave. This is a battle dungeon. Defeat all the enemies in all the rooms. Every time you clear a room ...
U.S. troops landed in the central part of Okinawa's main island and continued their advance southward, approaching Shuri ...