CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — A Japanese motorcyclist was killed early ... The motorcyclist, Koji Moriyama, 56, of Urasoe, was declared dead at 6:16 a.m. at a hospital in southern Okinawa, the ...

The suspect, tatami store manager Sotatsu Yanase, 45, was arrested Friday on suspicion of abandoning and damaging the body of ...

Taiwan was under Japan’s colonial rule from 1895 through ... The plaque shows the names of 41 newly identified war dead from both Okinawa Prefecture and elsewhere, including Kayoko Kayamoto.

The battle that marked the U.S. invasion of the main islands of Japan left about 200,000 Japanese and Americans dead. It is estimated that a quarter of Okinawa's civilian population perished in ...

Narration The number of civilian dead was overwhelming ... In the Battle of Okinawa, residents and Japanese soldiers used them as their refuges and field hospitals. Various tragedies took place ...

Japanese commanders in Okinawa ended organized combat on June ... 65,000 Japanese military personnel and at least 120,000 Okinawans were dead. The complete picture still remains a blurry nightmare ...

More than 120,000 civilians were killed. After the battle, Okinawa served as a strategic base for the US military to attack the Japanese mainland. That fact -- Okinawa serving as a key foothold of ...

Yoshimine would remember: "Mabuni was a dead end ... Americans occupied and administered Okinawa. In 1972, administration of the island reverted back to Japan, but American military bases remain ...

Yoshimine would remember: "Mabuni was a dead end ... Americans occupied and administered Okinawa. In 1972, administration of the island reverted back to Japan, but American military bases remain ...

The Imperial Household Agency is considering a visit by Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako to the island of Iwo Jima in ...