Harumi Miyagi’s mother was a village employee on the small island of Zamami in Okinawa Prefecture who provided food and lodging for 15 Japanese soldiers at her home in 1945. When a U.S. military ...

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 ...

Its strategic plan stated that "Okinawa is the front line of defense ... They said we'd be honored like soldiers at Yasukuni Shrine. We believed we all had to die, so we weren't concerned.

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 ...

They were donated by his daughter in April to the Yasukuni Shrine Archives in Tokyo ... conveys his frustration as he monitors events in Okinawa. "The enemy has started landing on the main ...

A memorial ceremony was held in an Okinawa Prefecture village on Wednesday, the 80th anniversary of the U.S. military's landing on the Kerama Islands, which preceded fierce ground battles in the ...