The Battle of Okinawa was one of the bloodiest and costliest of World War II in the Pacific. The United States needed a base to stage an invasion of mainland Japan. The island of Okinawa was the ...

About 10 years ago, Hamada, who lives in Aomori Prefecture, found a personal seal with an uncommon family name in traditional characters in a cave in Itoman in the southern part of Okinawa’s ...