Akira Yamada, a history professor at Meiji University, said the emperor was clearly nervous and distraught when the U.S. military landed on Okinawa on April 1, 1945, to seize key airfields within ...

With the capture of Okinawa and the Philippines in 1945 ... The goal of Olympic was to capture airfields and ports in the southern half of the island of Kyushu from which they could use for ...

This is the life’s work of the bone digger, Takamatsu Gushiken. He spends much of his free time in caves like this in Okinawa, Japan’s southernmost prefecture, trying to bring closure to one ...

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 ...

KIN BLUE BEACH, Okinawa — An hourlong amphibious landing by U.S. Marines and Japanese troops over the weekend served as the “key bilateral training event” of Iron Fist, a defining exercise ...

The 12th Littoral Combat Team was established in a ceremony at Camp Hansen, Okinawa, on March 3 and is the third and final element of the Marine Corps' latest answer to Chinese influence in the ...