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Okinawa marked the day when one of the harshest battles of World War II fought on the southern island ended 80 years ago.

The Battle of Okinawa was the bloodiest fight in the Pacific theater in World War II, with tens of thousands killed across ...

More than 4,000 people on Monday filled an Okinawa park to mark the 80th anniversary of Japan's final WWII battle.

ITOMAN, Japan — "Money should be spent on rice, not missiles," Kunio Aragaki, a resident in Okinawa, told Xinhua News Agency ...

Human remains discovered on Okinawa in 2004 have been identified as those of a Japanese soldier, marking the first time DNA alone was used to confirm the identity of a casualty from the Battle of ...

Camp Katsuren, home of the Seventh Regiment and its missile batteries, sits next to the largest U.S. Navy base on Okinawa, the semitropical island that hosts most of the 50,000 U.S. troops in Japan.

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — U.S. service members and Japanese authorities are slated to conduct a second joint overnight patrol in the wake of a series of high-profile criminal cases involving ...

NAHA, Japan (Kyodo) -- An explosion occurred Monday near the U.S. military's Kadena Air Base in the southern Japanese prefecture of Okinawa, slightly injuring four Japan Ground Self-Defense Force ...

The Battle of Okinawa began on April 1, 1945 when the U.S. troops, in their push for mainland Japan, landed on the island. It lasted until late June, killing more than 200,000 people.

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito, center right, accompanied by his wife, Empress Masako, center, and their daughter Princess Aiko, left, is greeted before their departure for Okinawa, at the Haneda ...