An Okinawa Prefecture island where mass suicides took place during World War II held a memorial ceremony on March 26, the ...

Village officials led a memorial service in Zamami, Okinawa on Wednesday to commemorate the beginning of ground battles there ...

A memorial ceremony was held in an Okinawa Prefecture village on Wednesday, the 80th anniversary of the U.S. military's ...

Takamatsu Gushiken turns on a headtorch and enters a cave buried in Okinawa's jungle. He gently runs his fingers through the gravel until two pieces of bone emerge. These are from the skulls, he says, ...

I'm afraid there is a growing risk that Okinawa may become a battlefield again." Island haunted by one of World War II's deadliest battles On April 1, 1945, U.S. troops landed on Okinawa during ...

Eleven explosive ordnance disposal divers from the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force’s Sub Area Activity Okinawa unit set off the explosives underwater at 1 p.m., about 2,300 feet offshore from Shinko ...

The 90-year-old woman still remembers the final moments of her then-14-year-old brother's life during the 1945 battle.

created in memory of those who died in Okinawa, at the Peace Memorial Park in Itoman.Credit: AP Nearly 80 years after the end of World War II, 1.2 million Japanese war dead are still unaccounted for.

Zamami, Okinawa Pref., March 26 (Jiji Press)--A memorial ceremony was held in an Okinawa Prefecture village Wednesday, the ...

Takamatsu Gushiken uses a hand hoe to delicately move dirt in a cave while searching for the remains of those who died during the Battle of Okinawa towards the end of the World War II in 1945 ...