Japanese officials say an explosion at a storage site for unexploded ordnance at a U.S. military base on Japan’s southern ...

Four Japanese troops were injured when a device suddenly exploded at a storage site for unexploded ordnance at the U.S. Air ...

A clinical psychologist has formed grief care groups for survivors of war across Okinawa to help try to heal their emotional ...

“I was 10 years old when I experienced the Battle of Okinawa,” says Tetsunaga Tamaki in one interview. “I fled through the southern battlefields. When I tried to take shelter in a cave in ...

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 ...

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 ...

He crouches as the lamp on his forehead shines on the dirt at his feet and scratches the soil with a gardening tool, looking to turn up the remains of people who hid in caves like this one during the ...