Uezu, now 83, was born in the ... (present-day Kagoshima Prefecture). Okinawa was then annexed into modern Japan. After becoming one of the bloodiest battle sites in the Pacific War, the ...

These were not simply collateral deaths caused by the battle. There were other reasons as well. The island of Iejima is now a popular ... in southern Okinawa. The scenes he saw then are burned ...

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 ...

In the final stages of World War Two, Japan fought a fierce land battle against US forces in Okinawa. More than 200,000 people were killed, about half of them civilians. Now, a recent discovery is ...

Two nonagenarians have brought a corps of female student nurses who toiled under harsh and cruel conditions during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa back ... student corps now available to speak about ...

During the Battle ... Okinawa served as a strategic base for the US military to attack the Japanese mainland. That fact -- Okinawa serving as a key foothold of the US military -- is unchanged even ...