Stationed in the Parliament, several women play the guitar and denounce the violations committed by American soldiers on the Japanese island, where 30,000 military personnel are still deployed. It's a ...

We descended into Chibichibi Cave in southern Okinawa with the heavy feeling that this was not a site of distant history, but ...

The 11th Seabees will be attached to Task Force 75, headquartered at Naval Base Guam. Camp Shields, northeast of Kadena Air ...

Okinawa authorities discovered a U.S.-made bomb believed to date to World War II during an airport safety survey on a southern Japanese island, the first ordnance found in a series of inspections ...

The 5,000 U.S. Marines and 1,300 dependents now stationed in Okinawa should stay there, and the $6.2 billion Marine facilities on Guam could be used by the Army.

June 23 (UPI) --More than 4,000 people on Monday filled an Okinawa park to mark the 80th anniversary of Japan's final WWII battle, while citizens reflected over long-lost loved ones and a promise by a ...

The World War II Battle of Okinawa left an estimated 240,000 people killed or missing — and 80 years later, their bones are still being unearthed by dedicated volunteers. Japan’s southernmost ...

On April 1, 1945, the US Army invaded Okinawa, Japan in what is today known as one of the bloodiest battles of World War II. Each year, the Okinawa Association of America — a nonprofit founded over a ...

April 1945. The Pacific War had decisively turned in favour for the United States. During the waning days of that month, the colossal Japanese battleship Yamato, a maritime behemoth, set sail for ...

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