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

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

The third shell was found Feb. 8 and removed March 25 from a site near an elementary school in the Ozato district of Nanjo ...

The habits of people living on this extraordinary island are surprisingly humble, but a huge amount of the population live till a healthy old age ...

An updated plan recently released by the Japanese government details how and where it will move 120,000 people from the ...

Japan's government has compiled a plan to evacuate people from remote islands in the southwestern prefecture of Okinawa in ...

Eighty years ago, on April 1, a Sunday in 1945, seven troop divisions, four Army, three Marine, landed on the beaches of ...

The Japanese government has warned of catastrophic economic damage and nearly 300,000 deaths when the next "megaquake" hits the archipelagic nation, according to a new estimation released on Monday.

He spends much of his free time in caves like this in Okinawa, Japan’s southernmost prefecture ... They would be among the estimated 240,000 people killed or missing in the Battle of Okinawa ...