An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the ...

The Battle of Okinawa lasted from April 1 to June 22, 1945. Two-time Purple Heart recipient LaSota returned to the island for ...

Gushiken says the bones are silent witnesses to Okinawa's wartime tragedy, carrying a warning to the present generation as Japan ups its defense spending in the face of tensions with China over ...

Okinawa Prefecture on May 15 marked the 51st anniversary of its return to Japanese sovereignty, fearful it could again become the frontline in a war. Half a century on, Okinawa is still forced to ...

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 ...

More than 120,000 civilians were killed. After the battle, Okinawa served as a strategic base for the US military to attack the Japanese mainland. That fact -- Okinawa serving as a key foothold of ...

It saved them from another brutal invasion. Okinawa had been an independent peaceable kingdom with ties to China until Japan took it over in 1879. Okinawan kings had banned weapons on the island for ...

From there, the supercars headed south and drove across Nirai Kanai Bridge to Nanjo ... first Revuelto delivered in Japan. This Japanese tour along the Island of Okinawa is the seventh one of ...