The relics are grim remnants of the vast tunnel network dug by the Imperial Japanese Army under Shuri-jo castle before the fierce Battle of Okinawa in 1945. Previously closed-off parts of the ...
Ushijima Sadamitsu visits Okinawa regularly to learn about the battle. He keeps returning to one sight in particular: the former headquarters of Japan’s 32nd Army.
NAHA--Shigeaki Kinjo, who survived a mass suicide during a fierce ground battle in Okinawa Prefecture during World War II, died here from acute heart failure on July 19. He was 93. Kinjo was a ...
(Photo courtesy of Nagasaki Higashi High School) The U.S. military landed in Okinawa in March 1945, near the end of WWII. Due to the fierce attacks, known as the "storm of steel," Okinawan ...
Residents suffered heavily under Japanese imperial rule, and nearly one-third of the island's population died during the Battle of Okinawa near the end of World War II. This vast U.S. military ...
Stanley Primmer was knocked unconscious and blown out of his shoes after a Japanese kamikaze pilot dropped a bomb and then slammed the aircraft into the U.S. Navy veteran's ship during World War II.