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

To fully embrace the culture of Okinawa, Japan's only subtropical region ... livestreaming or taking photos of the sanctuaries. Sitting high above Cape Chinen, it also affords views of Kudaka ...

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

Uechi returned to Okinawa to open his dojo and survived ... survived because they were taken to Japan’s main island,” he said. The photos were kept and stored as prints at The Asahi Shimbun.

He spends much of his free time in caves like this in Okinawa, Japan’s southernmost prefecture ... matched up surveillance and reconnaissance photos from the US military with the current ...

In 1971, the year before Okinawa’s reversion to Japan, the Ryukyu government, the local self-governing body under U.S. rule there, drafted a proposal concerning the handover of Okinawa to Japan.

Gushiken says the bones are silent witnesses to Okinawa's wartime tragedy, carrying a warning to the present generation as Japan ups its defense spending in the face of tensions with China over ...