An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the ...

Harumi Miyagi’s mother was a village employee on the small island of Zamami in Okinawa Prefecture who provided food and ...

China is ramping up pressure on the region by sending drones near Japan’s islands and carrying out daily military drills ...

Japan's government has compiled a plan to evacuate people from remote islands in the southwestern prefecture of Okinawa in ...

Village officials led a memorial service in Zamami, Okinawa on Wednesday to commemorate the beginning of ground battles there 80 years ago.

ITOMAN, Japan — 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 ...

Eighty years ago, on April 1, a Sunday in 1945, seven troop divisions, four Army, three Marine, landed on the beaches of ...