The WWII veterans’ trip will begin by visiting the Battle of Guam site ... will travel to Iwo To/Iwo Jima for ceremonies that Hegseth would also attend. Their journey concludes in Okinawa ...

Japan pays the US $1.4 billion each year for the bases in Okinawa, which underpin their military alliance. Okinawa, Japan's ...

A local teacher explains to school students about the collective suicides during the Battle of Okinawa. Credit ... the Himeyuri Monument in Naha – a site that honors the hundreds of schoolgirls ...

(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako will visit Okinawa ... battle. Last month, the emperor and empress visited Iwoto Island, formerly known as Iwojima, the site ...

Shinichi Gibo survived the Battle of Okinawa in 1945 at the age of 6, but he has lived with a persistent trauma ever since. As a war orphan, he felt a deep sense of loneliness and inferiority.

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 ...

Steph Pawelski, a US Department of Defense school teacher who curates the Okinawa Battle Sites Facebook page, is also invested in the battle site, as both of her grandfathers served at Okinawa.

Walk up a path from the Okinawa ... site, Army Hospital Depot Number 20 at the Haebaru War Museum, staff have recreated that stench in a vial, and offer visitors a whiff at the end of the tour.