Eleven explosive ordnance disposal divers with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force’s Sub Area Activity Okinawa unit ...

Mysteries still shroud a tragedy 80 years ago in which many civilian passengers died in U.S. military attacks on running ...

26.7 x 34.3 cm. (10.5 x 13.5 in.) ...

With rising political tensions, let's explore what might happen if Japan is attacked in war. How would the international community react?

Japan detonated 461 WWII-era US-made shells Thursday off the coast of Japan's southeastern island of Okinawa, the Stars and Stripes US military newspaper reported. The shells saw active combat in WWII ...

Japan has not engaged in war since World War II, maintaining a pacifist stance under its post-war constitution. However, ...

Both Okinawa ... World War II in 1945. Uezu’s own struggles against hardship have taken him around the globe for years on end. But on May 15, the 50th anniversary of the reversion of Okinawa to ...

The Battle of Okinawa in 1945 was one of the bloodiest of World War II. More than 200,000 people were killed during the ... but also from the very people meant to be protecting them — Japanese forces.

Legend said the cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean at Okinawa, Japan’s Camp Courtney, the headquarters of the commanding general of the Third Marine Division, was where Japanese soldiers committed ha ...

Japan and the United States are arranging a late March meeting in Japan between Defense Minister Gen Nakatani and U.S.