China will stage a show of force to mark the anniversary of its victory over Japan. The event has strong symbolic and ...

A Japanese court has found a U.S. Marine guilty of sexually assaulting a woman in Okinawa and sentenced him to seven years in ...

A new film tells the true story of two Japanese soldiers in World War II. The soldiers lived for two years on top of a very ...

A Japanese court has found a U.S. Marine guilty of sexually assaulting a woman on Okinawa and sentenced him to seven years in ...

June 23 marked 80 years since the end of the Battle of Okinawa in the final stages of World War II. Okinawa observes ...

June 23 is designated as “Memorial Day,” as that is the day on which systematic fighting by the former Japanese military in Okinawa Prefecture is deemed to have ended. This year Memorial Day fell on ...

As Okinawa marks 80 years since the end of World War II combat on June 23, Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru attended the Okinawa Memorial Day ceremony and emphasized his commitment to reducing the burden ...

Okinawa on June 23 observed "Memorial Day," marking the day 80 years ago when organized combat between the then Imperial ...

Okinawa marked the 80th anniversary of the end of one of the harshest battles of World War II fought on the southern island.

Emotionally and physically depleted, the boy began to unravel after the war ended, with locals calling him a “ghost soldier.” ...