An Okinawa Prefecture island where mass suicides took place during World War II held a memorial ceremony on March 26, the ...

Village officials led a memorial service in Zamami, Okinawa on Wednesday to commemorate the beginning of ground battles there ...

Takamatsu Gushiken leaves a cave after a session of searching for the remains of those who died during the Battle of Okinawa ...

Harumi Miyagi’s mother was a village employee on the small island of Zamami in Okinawa Prefecture who provided food and ...

A memorial ceremony was held in an Okinawa Prefecture village on Wednesday, the 80th anniversary of the U.S. military's ...

I'm afraid there is a growing risk that Okinawa may become a battlefield again." Island haunted by one of World War II's deadliest battles On April 1, 1945, U.S. troops landed on Okinawa during ...

The 90-year-old woman still remembers the final moments of her then-14-year-old brother's life during the 1945 battle.

Gushiken says when he was a child growing up in Okinawa’s capital, Naha, he would go out hunting bugs and find skulls still wearing helmets. Nearly 80 years after the end of World War II ...

created in memory of those who died in Okinawa, at the Peace Memorial Park in Itoman.Credit: AP Nearly 80 years after the end of World War II, 1.2 million Japanese war dead are still unaccounted for.

I'm afraid there is a growing risk that Okinawa may become a battlefield again.” An island haunted by one of the deadliest battles of World War II On April 1, 1945, U.S. troops landed on Okinawa ...

Takamatsu Gushiken uses a hand hoe to delicately move dirt in a cave while searching for the remains of those who died during the Battle of Okinawa towards the end of the World War II in 1945 ...

Gushiken says when he was a child growing up in Okinawa's capital, Naha, he would go out hunting bugs and find skulls still wearing helmets. Nearly 80 years after the end of World War II ...