TOKYO (AP) — An explosion at a storage site for unexploded ordnance at a U.S. military base on Japan’s southern island of Okinawa injured four Japanese soldiers, though the injuries are not ...

A U.S. Air Force F-15 fighter aircraft at Kadena air force base in Okinawa on May 15, 2017. Getty Images Officials said the explosion took place during bomb disposal operations.

TORII STATION, Japan -- U.S. Army volunteers joined Japanese Self-Defense Forces and U.S. Navy volunteers at the Okinawa Peace Memorial Park in Okinawa, Japan, on June 7, 2025.

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and his family have visited Okinawa to pray for the war dead ahead of the 80th anniversary marking the end of one of the harshest battles of World War II.

In Okinawa, more than 200,000 people were killed in ground battles in the final stages of the Pacific War, part of World War II. It is Emperor Naruhito's seventh visit to Okinawa, and the third ...

It’s unbearable.” One day in the summer of 2010, the former soldier, then in his mid-90s, visited a cave on Okinawa’s main island with a group of war survivors.

A stool that doubles as a chair for children and a puzzle for adults is among conceptual product designs by students at Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts.

Japan has, for the first time, identified human remains from the Battle of Okinawa using only DNA testing, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said in a recent announcement.

Army Pfc. Clarence Craft earned the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Okinawa in May 1945. Here, 6th Division Marines rest behind a wall during a pause in fighting in the ...

The new accusations follow four known accusations of sexual misconduct against U.S. troops in Okinawa over the last year, though at least one set of charges was dropped against a Marine in January.

Two U.S. Marines in Okinawa, Japan, are under investigation for alleged rapes, police said Thursday, the latest in a string of assault cases that have angered residents. The United States has ...

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