Three fighter squadrons arrived for rotational duty at Kadena Air Base on Okinawa last month as the 18th Wing inches closer to a permanent fleet of F-15EX Eagle IIs in the spring. F-35A Lightning IIs ...

The governor of the prefecture talks to The American Conservative about the first of Japan’s island groupings that would be drawn into fighting over Taiwan.

June 23 (UPI) --More than 4,000 people on Monday filled an Okinawa park to mark the 80th anniversary of Japan's final WWII battle, while citizens reflected over long-lost loved ones and a promise by a ...

ITOMAN, Okinawa — Eighty years after Navy hospital corpsman Vernon “Monk” Martin was killed in the Battle of Okinawa, his name has been added to a memorial honoring the nearly 250,000 people who died ...

According to official estimates, only 2,600 bodies from the Battle of Okinawa are yet to be recovered, but residents and long-time volunteers say many more are buried ...

This video presents an animated breakdown of the Battle of Okinawa, one of the most intense and costly engagements of World War II. Viewers see how the island became a critical target and why both ...

On April 1, 1945, the US Army invaded Okinawa, Japan in what is today known as one of the bloodiest battles of World War II. Each year, the Okinawa Association of America — a nonprofit founded over a ...

A World War II Pacific Theater reenactment will occur the weekend of July 12-13 at the American Heritage Museum in Hudson. The event will feature American and Japanese infantry camps, authentic gear ...

Set in Okinawa 1971, one year before the return of power to the mainland, this film highlights the bloody battle of Okinawa Yakuza gangsters versus mainland system.