Thursday marks the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, the day when President Harry Truman announced Japan's intention to surrender.

This video shows how to make Okinawa taco rice in a cafe-style presentation. It includes an easy salsa, Japanese-style taco ...

A Japanese firm has created an interactive website where families of U.S. troops killed during the Battle of Okinawa can see their loved ones’ names on the island’s Cornerstone of Peace memorial.

The 43rd Okinawan Festival will feature performances of Okinawan dance, karate, taiko and music by local groups and special guests from Okinawa.

As people globally commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, dozens of people living on the Japanese ...

Okinawa resident Hiromasa Iha can still recall the screams of his classmates and teachers after a US military jet crashed ...

A US marine has been sentenced to seven years in prison for sexually assaulting a woman during his deployment in Japan ’s Okinawa. Lance Corporal Jamel Clayton, 22, attacked and choked the woman ...

A group of special operations vets retrace the Battle of Okinawa, following in the footsteps of the forefathers of today’s Navy SEALs.

Okinawa on June 23 observed "Memorial Day," marking the day 80 years ago when organized combat between the then Imperial Japanese military and U.S. forces is said to have ended. We must never ...

TOKYO — Okinawa marked the 80th anniversary of the end of one of the harshest battles of World War II fought on the southern island. With global tensions escalating, its governor said on Monday ...

The Battle of Okinawa was the bloodiest fight in the Pacific theater in World War II, with tens of thousands killed across both sides.

Japanese officials say an explosion at a storage site for unexploded ordnance at a U.S. military base on Japan’s southern island of Okinawa injured four Japanese soldiers.