WWII Mega Weapons: The Tunnels of Okinawa. Special | 54m 9s Video has Closed Captions | CC. The tide of war in the Pacific has now fully turned against the Imperial Japanese forces.

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — One of the last bastions of the Japanese Army on Okinawa during World War II, a tunnel system beneath the iconic Shuri Castle, may open to the public within three years.

T here is a reason Okinawa is called “Japan’s Hawaii.” With a rich history tracing from the Stone Age through the Ryūkyū ...

About 110 meters of Tunnel No. 2 and Tunnel No. 3 were shown to a crew from the Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK) and The Okinawa Times on April 25 and May 12. Tunnel No. 3 is believed to have housed ...

As U.S. forces closed in on Okinawa in April 1945, Japanese pilots launched kamikaze strikes with desperate precision. This ...

NAHA--Part of a tunnel network under Shuri-jo castle here that was used by the Imperial Japanese Army as a headquarters during the ferocious Battle of Okinawa in 1945 recently saw the first light ...

Okinawa observed the eightieth anniversary of the end of the Battle of Okinawa, one of the deadliest campaigns of the Second ...

The US island-hopping campaign in the Pacific during World War II faced some of its fiercest resistance on Iwo Jima and Okinawa. The fighting on those islands gave US planners a glimpse of what ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — An airman assigned to Kadena Air Base died Tuesday evening after his motorcycle collided with a car in the northern Okinawa city of Nago, according to Japanese police ...

The last time anyone saw Pfc. John B. Quinn, Jr, a 29th Regiment Marine, he was headed into a cave on the island of Okinawa, some 7,600 miles away from his home in New York. The year was 1945 ...

The Battle of Okinawa, fought against US-led forces, claimed the lives of more than 200 thousand civilians and soldiers. ... Experts found a charred rock inside one of the tunnels.

Trailer | WWII Mega Weapons: The Tunnels of Okinawa. Preview: Special | 30s Video has Closed Captions | CC. The tide of war in the Pacific has now fully turned against the Imperial Japanese forces.