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The prefectural police also arrested Gabriel Monize, a 21-year-old private 1st class who belongs to the U.S. Marine Corps' Camp Hansen in Okinawa, on Sunday on suspicion of slightly injuring an ...

NAHA -- As wartime Japan fully deployed its troops in Okinawa Prefecture in March 1944 ... soldiers "refrain from sexual intercourse other than with the military's special comfort women" because ...

Q: When was June 23 established as Okinawa Memorial Day?

While Okinawa is now a popular beach getaway, its jungles have preserved the scars of combat from March to June 1945. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

HANOI -- Eight people, including six adults and two children, were killed in a fire late Sunday night at a residential complex in Vietnam's southern Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam News Agency reported. The ...

Japan's weather agency said Monday it is assessing the possibility of tsunami reaching the country after a large volcanic ...

Japanese soldiers defused a U.S.-made bomb believed to be a World War II leftover at a historic villa in Okinawa’s capital ...

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

Japan plans to build an underground bomb shelter on its westernmost island that’s capable of housing up to 200 people.

The Japanese Self-Defense Force on Wednesday began deploying its fleet of V-22 Ospreys at a newly opened permanent base in ...

Japan recently marked 80 years since the end of the Battle of Okinawa, the final and bloodiest ground battle of World War II in the Pacific. A memorial ceremony was held on June 23 at Mabuni Hill in ...