The Thirty-Second Army was stationed in Okinawa and charged with fighting a war of attrition to delay the expected invasion of Japan as long as possible. Under the cover of a naval bombardment of ...

"The best way to honor the war dead is never to allow another war," Gushiken says. "I'm worried about Okinawa's situation now. ... I'm afraid there is a growing risk that Okinawa may become a ...

The Americans had been there her whole life, when the United States seized Okinawa from Japan after the end of World War II. But she knew the dead girl, who was a customer at her family’s small ...

“The best way to honour the war dead is never to allow another war,” Gushiken says. “I’m worried about Okinawa’s situation now ... I’m afraid there is a growing risk that Okinawa may ...

“The best way to honor the war dead is never to allow another war,” Gushiken says. “I'm worried about Okinawa's situation now. ... I'm afraid there is a growing risk that Okinawa may become ...

Misako Yoshimura, an 81-year-old resident of the town of Yonabaru, Okinawa Prefecture ... shortly after Japan’s surrender in the Pacific War. His gaze, which passed through the stone walls ...