We descended into Chibichibi Cave in southern Okinawa with the heavy feeling that this was not a site of distant history, but a warning. The cave is low ...

ITOMAN, Okinawa — Eighty years after Navy hospital corpsman Vernon “Monk” Martin was killed in the Battle of Okinawa, his name has been added to a memorial honoring the nearly 250,000 people who died ...

A Navy corpsman killed during the Battle of Okinawa will be the first American in five years added to a memorial on the island commemorating the battle. Petty Officer 3rd Class Vernon Martin — a ...

Eighty years ago, on April 1, a Sunday in 1945, seven troop divisions, four Army, three Marine, landed on the beaches of Okinawa, a remote tropical island the size of Prince George’s County. It was ...

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 Monday that it ...

TOKYO (AP) — 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 “bone digger” slides into a thin crevice on a hill in the Okinawan jungle. He’s a slight man, nimbly fitting his frame through the cave entrance, carefully avoiding the sharp limestone roof while ...