U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pacific Ocean Division (USACE POD) Commanding General, Brigadier General Joseph “Clete” Goetz II ...

An Okinawa Prefecture island where mass suicides took place during World War II held a memorial ceremony on March 26, the ...

Eighty years ago, on April 1, a Sunday in 1945, seven troop divisions, four Army, three Marine, landed on the beaches of ...

On Okinawa Memorial Day, a public holiday in this southernmost prefecture, people were seen visiting the Cornerstone of Peace here from early in the morning on June 23. Despite the rain ...

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

created in memory of those who died in Okinawa, at the Peace Memorial Park in Itoman.Credit: AP Nearly 80 years after the end of World War II, 1.2 million Japanese war dead are still unaccounted for.

A memorial ceremony was held in an Okinawa Prefecture village on Wednesday, the 80th anniversary of the U.S. military's ...

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.

Village officials led a memorial service in Zamami, Okinawa on Wednesday to commemorate the beginning of ground battles there ...