A man cries in front of the Cornerstone of Peace monument walls on which the names of all those who lost their lives during the Battle of Okinawa, at the Peace Memorial Park in Itoman, Okinawa ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako, center, and Princess Aiko arrive at the National Cemetery at the Peace Memorial Park in Itoman, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, on Wednesday. Photo by Keizo ...

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 it is ...

TOKYO – When dignitaries and guests gather on the remote island of Guadalcanal this week to commemorate the epic battle where Japan’s relentless advance in World War II was finally halted, one group ...

June 23 (UPI) --More than 4,000 people on Monday filled an Okinawa park to mark the 80th anniversary of Japan's final WWII battle, while citizens reflected over long-lost loved ones and a promise by a ...

For the first time, Japan’s home islands saw a U.S. fleet and felt the lightning strokes of its big guns. While a thousand carrier planes swirled over the homeland, battleships, cruisers and ...

On December 7, 1941, the Empire of Japan launched a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, bringing the United States into World War II. The attack resulted in the damaging and loss of the Pacific Fleet's ...

On a rainy afternoon in 1891, five years before he would be crowned tsar of Russia, Nicholas Romanov was riding a rickshaw through the narrow streets of Otsu, Japan, when one of the policemen tasked ...

Naval battles are a thing of the past. The last massive engagement of two fleets was The Battle of Leyte Gulf between the U.S. Navy and Japanese Imperial Fleet. It is also the largest naval battle in ...

Formidable. Implacable. Indefatigable. The British had such cool names for their warships. And apt. For while it’s true that the U.S. Marines and Navy did most of the heavy lifting in the Pacific ...