NAHA--Shigeaki Kinjo, who survived a mass suicide during a fierce ground battle in Okinawa Prefecture during World War II, died here from acute heart failure on July 19. He was 93. Kinjo was a ...

During the Battle of Okinawa, civilians were caught between ... The US soldiers had faced suicide attacks and stopped distinguishing between civilians and Japanese military. They bombed caves ...

Some insisted on committing group suicide. But the actions of one old ... even after Japan's defeat became a foregone conclusion. The Battle of Okinawa represented a scaled-down version of that ...

73 years have passed since the end of a fierce battle in Okinawa Prefecture during the ... using more than 1,800 aircrafts in a kamikaze suicide mission. A number of ships are believed to have ...

Indeed, Yamato’s suicide mission is one of the saddest ... with almost all hands drowning during the Battle of Okinawa in ...

Ships in the Fifth Fleet had experienced suicide attacks before ... But it was at Okinawa that she would fight her fiercest battle. On board the destroyer was 21-year-old John Chapman ...