The relics are grim remnants of the vast tunnel network dug by the Imperial Japanese Army under Shuri-jo castle before the fierce Battle of Okinawa in 1945. Previously closed-off parts of the ...

Part of a tunnel network under Shuri-jo castle in Naha that was used by the Imperial Japanese Army as a headquarters during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa is shown to media representatives. (Pool) ...

The tunnels are now collapsed ... some of it kept at a US Marine base in Okinawa. Mark Waycaster, a curator of The Battle of Okinawa Historical Display, pulled out an intelligence monograph ...

on the Japanese islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, complex networks of tunnels were constructed, allowing them to resist for weeks against superior American forces. However, some of the most ...

Ushijima Sadamitsu visits Okinawa regularly to learn about the ... The kilometer-long complex of tunnels lies 30 meters below Shuri Castle in the city of Naha. The site is not open to the public ...