The government has already decisively escalated its confrontation with Okinawa Prefecture over the contentious project to ...

Large-scale memorials, including the Himeyuri Cenotaph, dot the cityscape of Itoman, the site of some of the fiercest ...

Japan's southwestern prefecture of Okinawa will observe Memorial Day on Tuesday, marking 81 years since the end of the Battle ...

Okinawa on Tuesday marked 81 years since the end of a fierce World War II ground battle between Japan and the United States ...

The Battle of Okinawa was the most savage ground battle staged in Japan during the war, and Mabuni was the site of the last ...

People in Japan's southwestern prefecture of Okinawa have cleansed a peace monument ahead of Okinawa's Memorial Day on ...

This shows a construction work off Henoko in Nago, Okinawa prefecture, southern Japan on May 2, 2023, where the Japanese government plans to relocate a U.S. air base from one area of the prefecture to ...

Japan's Defense Ministry said Wednesday landfill dumping has begun in a new section of a bay in Okinawa as part of a long-runni ...

A man cries in front of the Cornerstone of Peace monument walls on which the names of all those who lost their lives during the Battle of Okinawa, at the Peace Memorial Park in Itoman, Okinawa ...

KUMAMOTO, Japan (Kyodo) -- Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force and the U.S. Marine Corps commenced the Resolute Dragon field ...

ITOMAN, Okinawa -- A 14-year-old student recited a poem at this year's Okinawa Memorial Day ceremony here on June 23, ...

With its beautiful green grass and views overlooking the clear blue ocean, a picturesque golf course stretches out over some high ground in what is now the city of Nanjo near the southern tip of ...