The Battle of Okinawa was one of the bloodiest and costliest of World War II in the Pacific. The United States needed a base to stage an invasion of mainland Japan. The island of Okinawa was the ...

They would be among the estimated 240,000 people killed or missing in the Battle of Okinawa, from the landing of the US invasion force on April 1, 1945, to the Americans’ declaration of victory ...

A landscaper working on a historical film about the Battle of Okinawa uncovered human remains last summer on Ie Shima.

Japan's now-defunct Imperial military fought US forces in the southwestern prefecture 80 years ago in what is known as the Battle of Okinawa. More than 200,000 people, including civilians ...

The dog tag of Makoto Nishi, who was killed in the 1945 Battle of Okinawa, was returned to his bereaved family here. “He has finally come back,” said Inoue, 78, Nishi’s eldest daughter.

The “bone digger” slides into a thin crevice on a hill in the Okinawan jungle. He’s a slight man, nimbly fitting his frame through the cave entrance, carefully avoiding the sharp limestone ...