During the time Army Captain Charles Gail wandered Okinawa with his box camera in 1952, his intention was artistic. But his slice-of-life photos — along with his detailed notes about each scene — ...

In 1952, an U.S. Army captain named Charles E. Gail was stationed on the Japanese island of Okinawa, which is about halfway between Japan’s mainland and Taiwan in the East China Sea. At the time, ...

The foreign and defense ministers will attend the annual June 23 memorial day service in Okinawa for the first time since it began in 1952, government officials said Wednesday. The ceremony for the ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government decided on Tuesday to hold a ceremony to mark the restoration of Japan's sovereignty seven years after defeat in World War Two, a sign of his ...