Thousands filled Peace Memorial Park on Monday to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Okinawa.

Okinawa marked the day when one of the harshest battles of World War II fought on the southern island ended 80 years ago.

The Battle of Okinawa was the bloodiest fight in the Pacific theater in World War II, with tens of thousands killed across ...

ITOMAN, Okinawa — Eighty years after Navy hospital corpsman Vernon “Monk” Martin was killed in the Battle of Okinawa, his ...

Trekking through mud and rocks in Japan's humid Okinawan jungle, Takamatsu Gushiken reached a slope of ground where human ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family have prayed for all the war dead in one of the bloodiest battles of World War II fought on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa 80 years ago.

The Japanese and Okinawan stories are a love letter to her ... This show is a good one for young kids. Erin is back home in the Twin Cities after stops in South Korea and Omaha.

The Americans had been there her whole life, when the United States seized Okinawa from Japan after the end of World War II. But she knew the dead girl, who was a customer at her family’s small ...

June 4 (UPI) --Japan's imperial family honored the war dead in Okinawa on Wednesday, where the last major battle of World War II occurred 80 years ago, from April 1 to June 22, 1945. Emperor ...