Thursday marks the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, the day when President Harry Truman announced Japan’s intention to surrender. While the day for some in East Tennessee brings back the image of ...

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 court in Japan sentenced a Marine to seven years in prison on Tuesday after it found him guilty of strangling and attempting to sexually assault a Japanese woman in Okinawa last year, the latest ...

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.

ITOMAN, Okinawa — Thousands filled Peace Memorial Park on Monday to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Okinawa, as U.S. and Japanese officials delivered messages of peace in ...

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.

About 35 Okinawa civilian and U.S. military leaders met in a promised forum at Camp Foster to discuss cooperative measures to stem criminal behavior by U.S. service members on the island.