Okinawa on Sunday marks the 50th anniversary of its return to Japan on May 15, 1972, which ended 27 years of U.S. rule after ...

Large-scale memorials, including the Himeyuri Cenotaph, dot the cityscape of Itoman, the site of some of the fiercest fighting during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa.

Higa is the author of ‘Okinawa, the Wind Speaks,’ a celebrated graphic novel, in which he narrates the post-war period of his region. In this interview with EL PAÍS, he shares his passion for Picasso ...

This story has been corrected. More than 800 people were evacuated Thursday from a city in central Okinawa while the Japanese army removed an American-made bomb believed to be left over from World War ...

TOKYO, June 24 — Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi was heckled at a World War II memorial event by protesters angry about Tokyo’s further shift away from its decades-long pacifist stance, ...

Opportunities to hear first-hand accounts of the conflict are fading, with about 60 per cent of local high school students having no family members who can speak about the battle, according to local ...

A memorial ceremony was held in Okinawa Prefecture on Tuesday to mourn some 200,000 people who died in a fierce ground battle fought in the southernmost Japan prefecture 81 years ago in the late stage ...