During World War II in the Pacific, American flame tanks brought fire into caves and bunkers where conventional weapons ...

Marvin Margolis - also known as Marvin Merrill - was a veteran, a family man, a convicted fraudster, an artist, a car ...

At the Peace Memorial Park in the southern end of the Okinawa main island, black granite slabs are engraved with the names of all the war dead: Americans as well as Japanese; civilians as well as ...

Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 1st Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 38th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, 94th Army Air and ...

It is now widely known that China has been focusing its attention on Okinawa, generating narratives about the island and its status. Among these narratives are the “Ryukyu Undetermined Status Theory.” ...

NAHA — A tourist discovered a bag containing what is believed to be 99 handgun cartridges under the sea while snorkeling near Blue Cave in Okinawa Prefecture, local police said Friday. According to ...

On Kakazu Ridge, a miserable little 300-ft. fold in the earth just north of Naha, U.S. Tenth Army infantrymen found out for sure what they had suspected all along: Okinawa would come high. The fact ...

Itoman, Japan (CNN) — The “bone digger” slides into a thin crevice on a hill in the Okinawan jungle. He’s a slight man, nimbly fitting his frame through the cave entrance, carefully avoiding the sharp ...