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 ...

By Martin Fackler and Kiuko Notoya Reporting from Henoko, Okinawa Keiko Itokazu can still remember the day in 1965 when the parachute didn’t open. It was attached to a jeep trailer that was ...

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 ...