NAHA--Okinawa Prefecture on June 23 marked its 78th Memorial Day to honor the victims of one of the bloodiest battles of World War II. By the end of the fighting in 1945, more than 200,000 people ...
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 ...
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.
The Battle of Okinawa was one of the bloodiest and costliest of World War II in the Pacific. The United States needed a base to stage an invasion of mainland Japan. The island of Okinawa was the ...
The Battle of Okinawa was one of the bloodiest and costliest of World War II in the Pacific. The United States needed a base to stage an invasion of mainland Japan. The island of Okinawa was the ...
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 ...
On Easter Sunday, 1945, Drahos was one of 170-thousand combat troops landing in Okinawa to fight in one of the bloodiest battles of World War II. "You're in a different world," he said.
But in 1879, the king was banished from the castle and the dynasty was annexed to become Okinawa prefecture. The castle was completely destroyed in WW2 by American forces in 1945. Many documents ...
After World War II, when Okinawa was under control of the United States, the local yakuza prospered. But when Okinawa is returned to Japan, the mainland yakuza tries to take over; the local yakuza ...