Across the globe, their missions are called kamikaze, but in Japan they are better known as "tokko ... According to the ...

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

During a few days in Japan’s second-largest ... generation,” those who fought World War II, and the legacy of what the Marines accomplished on Okinawa. Back at the cave site, Gushiken says ...

The World War II Battle of Okinawa left an estimated 240,000 people killed or missing — and 80 years later, their bones are still being unearthed by dedicated volunteers. Japan’s southernmost ...

Japanese troops recently removed and neutralized three World War II-era U.S. artillery shells uncovered at construction sites across southern Okinawa and detonated another offshore, according to ...

Two U.S. Marines in Okinawa, Japan are under investigation for alleged rapes, police say, the latest in a string of assault ...

I was promised cherry blossoms if I came to Tokyo,” joked Professor Peter Feaver on a chilly March Friday to a room full of ...

Itoman, Japan (CNN) — The “bone digger ... of people who hid in caves like this one during the World War II Battle of Okinawa. This is the life’s work of the bone digger, Takamatsu ...