In the blood-soaked spring of 1945, the Pacific War’s most devastating confrontation unfolded on a small Japanese island, ...

Throughout Okinawa, the integration of the military and civilian sectors was propelled forward. This was the only battle of the Pacific War fought on densely populated Japanese territory.

Japanese troops removed and defused an American shell believed to be from WWII at a construction site in Naha, Okinawa.

“The usage of Agent Orange and military defoliants in Okinawa is one of the best kept secrets of the Cold War,” said symposium keynote speaker Jon Mitchell, a Tokyo-based journalist who has ...

Okinawa Memorial Day, observed on June 23, is a day for mourning the victims of the savage ground warfare in the final months of World War II and praying for permanent peace. One in four Okinawans ...

The Battle of Okinawa was one of the bloodiest and costliest of World War II in the Pacific. The United States needed a base to stage an invasion of mainland Japan. The island of Okinawa was the ...

The Battle of Okinawa was one of the bloodiest and costliest of World War II in the Pacific. The United States needed a base to stage an invasion of mainland Japan. The island of Okinawa was the ...

ITOMAN, Okinawa Prefecture--Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako paid their respects to the victims of the bloodiest battle in the Pacific War in the emperor’s first visit to Okinawa since his ...

By shifting our perspective of the Pacific War away from grand Imperial strategies, and toward the intricacies of fighting on the water, Walker allows us to see the war from Yukikaze's bridge during ...

NAHA, Okinawa — The Japanese government will begin ... the southernmost of the country’s four main islands, after a World War II-era bomb exploded in October. A survey will begin Monday ...

On Okinawa, where more than four years ago U.S. arms won a famous and a costly victory (80,000 dead & wounded), General Douglas MacArthur’s Pacific command ... Since war’s end Okinawans ...

In the final months of World War Two, the southern Japanese prefecture of Okinawa experienced some of the fiercest fighting in the Pacific theater. The Imperial Japanese military and US forces ...