An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the ...

On April 11, 1945, a Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball during the ...

The World War II Battle of Okinawa left an estimated 240,000 people killed or missing. Now, 80 years later, bones are still ...

The third shell was found Feb. 8 and removed March 25 from a site near an elementary school in the Ozato district of Nanjo ...

Shinichi Gibo survived the Battle of Okinawa in 1945 at the age of 6, but he has lived with a persistent trauma ever since. As a war orphan, he felt a deep sense of loneliness and inferiority.

Rieko Tamaki, 90, a resident of Naha, still remembers the final moments of her then 14-year-old brother's life during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa. "He died in agony, crying out, ‘Give me water.’ ...