NAHA—Sadayoshi Miyagi has continued searching for a specific rock in the southern part of the main Okinawa island where he left the body of his brother 76 years ago. His 2-year-old brother, Teiso, is ...
The Only Army Unit to Fight in Five of the Marine Corps’ Bloodiest WWII Battles — Including Iwo Jima
From Guadalcanal to Okinawa, the Marine Corps earned its reputation for tackling some of the bloodiest battles of World War ...
Okinawa has had a tumultuous history and a scattered identity throughout the twentieth century. As a Japanese territory before World War II, Okinawans did not ever fully adopted Japanese culture as ...
NAHA--Okinawa Prefecture will preserve the remains of the Imperial Japanese Army headquarters that served as a command post beneath Shuri-jo Castle here during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa. As a step ...
Japan has promised to carry out its first thorough investigation into fighting on the southern island of Okinawa during World War II, reports said Wednesday. Government spokesman Hiromu Nonaka spoke ...
The town of Nishihara, at the center of Okinawa Island, lost half of its residents in the 1945 Battle of Okinawa. Yoshiko Goya, 88, who was born in the town’s Kohatsu area — the site of fierce ...
Few units hold the distinction to have fought an enemy of the United States on U.S. soil. The 7th Infantry Division is one of those few. During World War II, the United States experienced something ...
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