During the Battle of Okinawa, civilians were caught between 2 major military forces, each determined to fight to the end. More than 120,000 civilians were killed. After the battle, Okinawa served ...

NAHA--For decades after the ferocious 1945 Battle of Okinawa, Katsuko Yasumoto freely shared her experiences of the carnage, but always held back on one particularly painful detail: atrocities ...

In the final stages of World War Two, Japan fought a fierce land battle against US forces in Okinawa. More than 200,000 people were killed, about half of them civilians. Now, a recent discovery is ...

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 ...

NAHA--Okinawa Prefecture will preserve the remains of the Imperial Japanese Army headquarters that served as a command post beneath Shuri-jo Castle here during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa.

Under the cover of a naval bombardment of more than 100,000 shells, the American military began landing on Okinawa at 8:30 am. It was the beginning of a merciless battle that was later described ...