A string of incidents over the years involving American troops and base personnel, including sexual assault cases, have ...

An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the scars remain, allowing visitors to get up close and touch history.

People have gathered at a memorial ceremony in Okinawa for victims of a US submarine attack on a ship that was evacuating ...

During the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific War, some 2.3 million Japanese soldiers and military personnel lost their ...

Okinawa resident Hiromasa Iha can still recall the screams of his classmates and teachers after a US military jet crashed ...

Across the Pacific, every battle and every skirmish had led to this moment. A colossal US armada made up of 1,500 ships and a ...

TOKYO (AP) — Okinawa marked the 80th anniversary of the end of one of the harshest battles of World War II fought on the southern island. With global tensions escalating, its governor said on ...

As a naval aviator in World War II, Donald McPherson got five aerial kills. Then he spent decades in a life of service.

An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the scars remain, allowing visitors to get up close and touch history.

TOKYO (AP) — Okinawa marked the 80th anniversary of the end of one of the harshest battles of World War II fought on the southern island.