The mass suicide occurred in April 1945 during the Battle of Okinawa, the largest ground battle in Japan during the war.

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

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

Despite decades of clearance efforts, roughly 1,900 metric tons of deadly remnants are estimated to remain buried beneath the ...

The increasing military use of a civilian airport in southwest Japan, thought to be for contingency drills with China in mind ...

Harumi Miyagi’s mother was a village employee on the small island of Zamami in Okinawa Prefecture who provided food and ...

Japan on Thursday unveiled a plan to evacuate about 120,000 people from southern islets near Taiwan, regarded by China as its ...

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

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (Onna Village, Okinawa; President and CEO: Karin Markides; hereafter OIST) and ...

Yomitan, Okinawa Pref., April 5 (Jiji Press)--Some 100 people, including bereaved families, on Saturday mourned those who committed mass suicide at a cave in Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan, 80 ...

The “bone digger” slides into a thin crevice on a hill in the Okinawan jungle. He’s a slight man, nimbly fitting his frame through the cave entrance, carefully avoiding the sharp limestone ...