Okinawa marked the day when one of the harshest battles of World War II fought on the southern island ended 80 years ago.

Okinawa on June 23 observed "Memorial Day," marking the day 80 years ago when organized combat between the then Imperial ...

ITOMAN, Japan, June 24 (Xinhua) -- "Money should be spent on rice, not missiles," Kunio Aragaki, an Okinawan resident, told Xinhua on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the end of the Battle of ...

ITOMAN, Japan — "Money should be spent on rice, not missiles," Kunio Aragaki, a resident in Okinawa, told Xinhua News Agency ...

The Battle of Okinawa was the bloodiest fight in the Pacific theater in World War II, with tens of thousands killed across ...

In a rare move, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba visited the Himeyuri-no-to memorial here on June 23 as part of events marking ...

Burden of history. Okinawa remains home to the majority of about 50,000 U.S. troops stationed in Japan under a bilateral security pact. The island, which accounts for only 0.6% of Japanese land, ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba spoke of the horrific ground war involving Okinawan residents, noting that 200,000 lives were ...

On this day in 1945, Private First Class John “Johnny” Córdova, the third generation of a proud family of Castaic ...

Okinawa marked the day when one of the harshest battles of World War II fought on the southern island ended 80 years ago. ... Nishida also called Okinawa's history education “a mess.” ...