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.

but the Pacific theater was yet to see its deadliest days. The final land battle of World War II took place a mere 350 miles from the main islands of Japan. The U.S. planned that Okinawa ...

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 ...

While the horrors endured by civilians during the Pacific War are undeniable, Japan’s commemoration often sidesteps its role ... The Japanese military’s fanatical resistance in battles such as Saipan ...

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 ...

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 ...

While his grandfather was killed in action during the Battle of Okinawa, his grandmother survived one of the bloodiest combat zones in the Pacific War. Ishikawa did not experience the Battle of ...

Okinawa was then annexed into modern Japan. After becoming one of the bloodiest battle sites in the Pacific War, the southernmost island prefecture came under U.S. military rule for 27 years.

The relocation started with 100 members of III Marine Expeditionary Force stationed on Okinawa moving to the Pacific island for ... to wage a higher level of war ...

The 9,000 relocating Marines are set to be moved elsewhere in the Pacific — to Guam, Hawaii or Australia, the United States has said. Okinawa comprises just 0.6 per cent of Japan’s territory but hosts ...