80 years after World War II, Okinawa’s battle sites are still giving up bones and bombs
An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the ...
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2025 Washin Kai Spring Lecture: Professor Davinder Bhowmik, UW Dept. of Asian Languages and Literature
This year’s Washin Kai’s spring lecture will be by Professor Davinder Bhowmik from the Department of Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Washington (UW). On April 8, Bhowmik will be ...
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Marine Corps Adds First Anti-Ship Missile Battery to Okinawa as Part of Recent Littoral Plan
The 12th Littoral Combat Team was established in a ceremony at Camp Hansen, Okinawa, on March 3 and is the third and final element of the Marine Corps' latest answer to Chinese influence in the ...
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Design Discovery Virtual at Harvard University Graduate School of Design
The course offers an introduction to design, its media and methods, across disciplines of architecture, landscape and urban planning and design. US and international citizens are invited to apply.
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9 landscape photography tips I think every photographer should know
Landscape photographers favor low ISOs so they can retain as much detail as possible and middling to narrow apertures so they can capture a large depth of field without unwanted diffraction. As such, ...
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String of anti-base protests brings suspended sentence for Okinawa woman
NAHA CITY, Okinawa — A woman opposed to U.S. military presence on Okinawa was convicted in a Japanese court recently on 16 counts related to her protests the past four years, including a threat ...
CBS News29d
Volunteer searching for WWII dead in Japanese caves unearths remains of hundreds of people
Takamatsu Gushiken turns on a headlamp and enters a cave buried in Okinawa's jungle. He gently runs his fingers through the gravel until two pieces of bone emerge. These are from the skulls ...
Associated Press29d
An Okinawan bone digger searches for remains from one of the fiercest battles of World War II
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Eighty years on from the Battle of Okinawa during World War II, the remains of some of those killed are ...
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Paradise Turned Frontline: How Japan’s Yonaguni Island Became a Fortress Amid Chinese Threats
The shifting landscape of Yonaguni has polarized its residents ... deepening concerns about their livelihoods and safety. Memories of Okinawa’s Past and Fears for the Future For many in Yonaguni, the ...
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Marines, Japanese forces prepare for amphibious warfare on Okinawa
KIN BLUE BEACH, Okinawa — An hourlong amphibious landing by U.S. Marines and Japanese troops over the weekend served as the “key bilateral training event” of Iron Fist, a defining exercise ...
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Japanese Self-Defense Force, U.S. Forces Conduct Joint Drill; Iron Fist Exercises Continue in Okinawa Pref.
U.S. Marines disembark from a landing vessel onto a beach in the town of Kin, Okinawa Prefecture, on Saturday. The Yomiuri Shimbun 15:47 JST, March 2, 2025 The Ground Self-Defense Force, the U.S.