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

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

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

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

A group of World War II veterans will make their final journey back to Guam, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa to mark the 80th ...

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

Zamami, Okinawa Pref., March 26 (Jiji Press)--A memorial ... battles in the southwestern Japan prefecture during World War II. Bereaved families and others prayed for peace and the victims of ...

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 ...

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