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

NAHA—In a rare and significant move, senior officials from the U.S. Marine Corps stationed in Okinawa Prefecture formally ...

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

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, ...

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

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 ...

At the symposium, Nishida also said that education in Okinawa about the war, including the interpretation of the ground battle, was “ridiculous” and that “we have to create a history that we ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family have visited Okinawa to pray for the war dead ahead of the 80th anniversary marking ...

The series “Oral History of Broadcasting” has been conducting interviews with an aim to trace the history of broadcasting from the testimonies of people involved in broadcasting by adopting ...