Students from Seattle and Naha, Okinawa, celebrate the 50th anniversary of the cross-cultural exchange program.

created in memory of those who died in the Battle of Okinawa, at the Peace Memorial Park in Itoman, on the main island of the Okinawa archipelago, southern Japan, Friday, Feb. 14, 2025.

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The peace rally drew around 10,000 people at the athletic stadium in Onoyama Park on Nov. 23, according to organizers, which consisted of 65 activist groups. “It’s been 51 years since Okinawa ...

Hani, who is from Hura, a Bedouin town in southern Israel, was one of several speakers at a “parting ceremony” for Silver, the Canadian-Israeli peace activist who was killed by Hamas in its ...

The somber annual ceremony was held three months after leaders of the Group of Seven and other invited nations stood at the same Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park to offer flowers to the 140,000 or so ...

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Located south of Japan, Okinawa is a small island that hides a big secret: longevity. The inhabitants of this archipelago ...

Like many of the prolonged battles waged during the last year of World War II, the fighting on Iwo Jima resulted in the ...