An Okinawa Prefecture island where mass suicides took place during World War II held a memorial ceremony on March 26, the ...

Eighty years ago, on April 1, a Sunday in 1945, seven troop divisions, four Army, three Marine, landed on the beaches of Okinawa, a remote tropical island the size of Prince George’s County. It was ...

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 ...

Takamatsu Gushiken turns on a headlamp 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 from the skulls, he ...

A U.S. Marine stationed in Okinawa Prefecture has been accused of sexually assaulting and injuring a local woman, despite U.S. military assurances that measures are in place to prevent such crimes.

At the beginning of the Pacific War, the Japanese military quickly gained control over a vast territory. But the Allied Forces, led by the U.S. military, regained control over the islands of the ...

The Marine Corps stood up a unit last week meant to sow "chaos and uncertainty" for its adversaries in the Pacific, according to a news release, adding the service's first U.S. anti-ship missile ...

The map below shows the location of Beijing and Okinawa. The blue line represents the straight line joining these two place. The distance shown is the straight line or the air travel distance between ...

Bereaved family members and those who lived through the war place their hands together in tribute in Zamami, Okinawa Prefecture, on March 26, 2025. (Mainichi/Shinnosuke Kyan) NAHA -- An Okinawa ...