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

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

U.S. Marines have begun a partial transfer from Okinawa to Guam, 12 years after Japan and the United States agreed on their ...

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 ...

Chibi refers to the Ryukyu Kingdom, a once-independent maritime state that governed these South Pacific ... World War II brought even greater devastation to the island. The Battle of Okinawa ...

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 ...

In Onaga’s case, she was taking shelter in a limestone cave in southern Okinawa on June 22 ... as Japan’s defeat in the Pacific War now seemed inevitable. At one point, she heard a U.S ...

As regional tensions escalate, particularly concerning the Taiwan Strait, discussions of Okinawa often fall prey to ...

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 ...