ITOMAN, Okinawa — Eighty years after Navy hospital corpsman Vernon “Monk” Martin was killed in the Battle of Okinawa, his name has been added to a memorial honoring the nearly 250,000 people ...

As wartime Japan fully deployed its troops in Okinawa Prefecture in March 1944, about a year before the ground battle against ...

TOKYO — Human remains discovered on Okinawa in 2004 have been identified as those of a Japanese soldier, marking the first time DNA alone was used to confirm the identity of a casualty from the ...

The Battle of Okinawa began on April 1, 1945 when the U.S. troops, in their push for mainland Japan, landed on the island. It lasted until late June, killing more than 200,000 people. Nearly half ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito, center right, accompanied by his wife, Empress Masako, center, and their daughter Princess Aiko, left, is greeted before their departure for Okinawa, at the Haneda ...

TOKYO — Japan's Emperor Naruhito and his family prayed on Wednesday in Okinawa for all the war dead in one of the bloodiest battles of World War II that was fought on the southern Japanese ...

(Takumi Sato/Kyodo News via AP) Japan’s Emperor Naruhito, center, Empress Masako, left, and their daughter Princess Aiko, second left, stand in front of the Cornerstone of Peace monument walls on ...

The fast-food chicken chain will hold its grand opening in Wethersfield next week. The Battle of Okinawa began on April 1, 1945 when the U.S. troops, in their push for mainland Japan, landed on ...