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 ...

In Okinawa, Japan, people form "moai" groups to support each other throughout life. "Parents cluster their children in groups of five, and send them through life together," Buettner explained.

In 1971, the year before Okinawa’s reversion to Japan, the Ryukyu government ... serious effects of the heavy military presence on the people in Okinawa. Information on the latest cherry ...

Most people want to be happy and live a long life, however, only not many are able to do so. But there's a place in Japan, named Okinawa, which is renowned as one of the world's "Blue Zones"-- a ...

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

To fully embrace the culture of Okinawa, Japan's only subtropical region ... a term used to describe a location where many people live to 100 years of age or beyond. There's even a popular ...

At the end of June, the people of Okinawa in southern Japan commemorated the 74th anniversary of the fierce battle that engulfed them in the final stages of World War Two. The Battle of Okinawa ...

U.S. military strikes around Japan on Oct. 10, 1944, killed more than 600 people and prompted the evacuation and mobilization of civilians in Okinawa Prefecture. The attack became known as the ...

The US military decided to relocate its bases from the mainland to Okinawa. The move succeeded in ridding people in mainland Japan of frustration with the US military, but forced the people of ...

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 ...