The third shell was found Feb. 8 and removed March 25 from a site near an elementary school in the Ozato district of Nanjo ...

That number includes as many as 100,000 civilians, 110,000 Japanese troops and Okinawa conscripts, and more than 12,000 American and allied troops, according to the National World War II Museum in ...

According to the National WWII Museum, suicide plane attacks began at Okinawa on March 26, 1945, and five days after the ...

80 years after the Battle of Okinawa, the largest ground battle in Japan during World War II in which more than 200,000 people, including civilians, died. Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force is ...

Some 100 people, including bereaved families, on Saturday mourned those who died in a mass suicide at a cave in Okinawa Prefecture 80 years ago in the final stages of World War II. They offered a ...

The 82-day battle for Okinawa was the largest Pacific battle of World War II and the largest amphibious assault in history. View the video clips below to learn about this event and hear an ...