The third shell was found Feb. 8 and removed March 25 from a site near an elementary school in the Ozato district of Nanjo ...

The World War II Battle of Okinawa left an estimated 240,000 people killed or missing. Now, 80 years later, bones are still ...

NAHA, Okinawa — Japanese troops detonated 24 suspected U.S. shells off the coast of Okinawa’s capital Wednesday, the third disposal of World War II ordnance in a month on the former island ...

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 ...