By the 1930s, Taiwan was discarded in favor of seizing Okinawa, a smaller objective closer to the ... including all six ...

An underwater exploration project found the submarine off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, after finding military documents with the correct coordinates to locate it. The original coordinates had been ...

Two months after the U.S. military landed on Okinawa in late March 1945, the 32nd Army decided to withdraw from the Naha headquarters and blow up the tunnels. The headquarters were moved to Mabuni ...

A wave of misleading videos pushing for Okinawa’s independence from mainland Japan is part of a wider disinformation campaign aimed at realigning the islands with China. In a recent investigation, the ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Japanese ordnance disposal experts plan to defuse two suspected World War II-era bombs found last ...

NAHA--Shigeaki Kinjo, who survived a mass suicide during a fierce ground battle in Okinawa Prefecture during World War II, died here from ... occurred without the military's order.

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Contractors looking for unexploded ordnance earlier this month found two suspected World War-II era bombs on Miyakojima, a popular tourist destination 170 miles southwest ...

The Marine Corps' new uncrewed, semi-submersible vessel -- dubbed the "narco-boat" -- arrived in Japan earlier this month as part of an ongoing modernization effort aimed at supplying Marines ...