The recent return to Japan of artifacts believed to have been looted by U.S. troops during World War II has rekindled interest in other treasures lost during the Battle of Okinawa nearly 80 years ago.

From Okinawa this week TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod, veteran observer of the battles of Attu, Tarawa, Saipan, Iwo Jima, radioed: Nothing stranger has occurred in the Pacific war than the Tenth ...

Honolulu (KHON2) – Living808’s Okinawa Week is gearing up for this weekend’s Okinawan Festival with a look back at an historic event that laid the foundation for The Hawaii Okinawa Center. “After the ...

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TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's Ryo Kiyuna took men's kata karate gold on Friday, demonstrating his supremacy in the martial art form that originated in his native Okinawa a day after his compatriot conceded ...

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 ...

A Tokyo-based citizens’ group slammed the Japanese government for the erroneous portrayal of the military’s role in a battle during World War II in school textbooks, says a report. The Kodomo to ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Sumie Oshiro was 25 when she and her friends tried to kill themselves to avoid capture by U.S. soldiers at the start of the bloody Battle of Okinawa. "We were told that if women were ...

TOKYO, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Japan's Ryo Kiyuna took men's kata karate gold on Friday, demonstrating his supremacy in the martial art form that originated in his native Okinawa a day after his compatriot ...