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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Okinawa: The last great battle of World War II

The Battle of Okinawa was one of the largest and bloodiest campaigns of the Pacific War in 1945. This video examines the ...

80 years after Okinawa battle, questions remain on mass suicides

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

EXPLAINER: Why frustration lingers in Okinawa 50 years later

Okinawa on Sunday marks the 50th anniversary of its return to Japan on May 15, 1972, which ended 27 years of U.S. rule after ...
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Okinawa: 80th anniversary of the bloody final invasion of the Pacific War

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 ...
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80 Years Later, Okinawa Remains Haunted by the Ghosts of War

A local teacher explains to school students about the collective suicides during the Battle of Okinawa. Credit: Cristian Martini Grimaldi In the Kerama Islands, just off the coast of Okinawa ...
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‘Frog Fathers’ — the birth of the Navy SEALs and how the Battle of Okinawa shaped them

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Workers find smoking grenade from World War II at Okinawa construction site

Japanese soldiers recovered remnants of a grenade, believed to be a World War II leftover, that workers found smoking Thursday at a construction site on Okinawa. The workers were excavating a site at ...
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At home with Susumu Higa, the anti-war manga artist who does not have a phone or a car

Higa is the author of ‘Okinawa, the Wind Speaks,’ a celebrated graphic novel, in which he narrates the post-war period of his region. In this interview with EL PAÍS, he shares his passion for Picasso ...
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80 years after World War II, Okinawa’s battle sites are still giving up bones and bombs

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bone hunter Takamatsu Gushiken looks for World War II-era remains in a cave on Okinawa. - Brad Lendon/CNN The "bone digger" slides ...