The Air Force plans to close a portion of this key air base along with a vital local highway Thursday evening to detonate a ...

Japanese authorities on Thursday night planned to remove an unexploded, 110-pound shell recently discovered at a construction ...

A varied mix of attendees observed and celebrated the resilience of World War II Naval servicemen during the April 16 79th ...

The United States launched a massive invasion of the Japanese home island of Okinawa, with an initial landing of 60,000 soldiers and marines, on this day in history, April 1, 1945. The Battle of ...

The 82-day battle for Okinawa was the largest Pacific battle of World War II and the largest amphibious assault in history. View the video clips below to learn about this event and hear an ...

Okinawa, which sits closer to China than to Japan's main islands, is the focus of U.S. and Japanese efforts to beef up ...

While growing up in the Seattle area, I always enjoyed hearing about my late father Clive Wienker’s experiences in the Army ...

Twenty-two historic artifacts, including six portraits of monarchs of the Ryukyu Kingdom believed to have been taken outside ...

With missiles, submarines and alliances, the Biden administration has built a presence in the region to rein in Beijing’s ...

But Tokyo handed over the Diaoyu Islands to the US military that year on the pretext that the islands were under the ...

The Battle of Okinawa proved the last major engagement of World War II and the largest battle of the entire war in the Pacific Theater. Kamikazes, mass civilian suicide, the use of children in ...

Even as the U.S. and Japan build up defenses on Okinawa, the island's long-running peace movement has been running into difficulty. Fewer survivors of the WWII Battle of Okinawa, in which nearly a ...