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 ...

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.

In the April 1945 invasion of the island of Okinawa, US forces suffered 50,000 casualties in two months, as they confronted ...

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 ...

Reuters Tens of thousands protested in Okinawa last year against the US military after Shinzato was arrested Shinzato was a former US Marine who worked as a civilian contractor at the Kadena air ...