Contractors looking for unexploded ordnance earlier found two suspected World War-II era bombs on Miyakojima, a popular ...

Two unexploded bombs apparently used in World War Two have been discovered near the airport on Miyakojima Island in the ...

The Yamato-class battleships, constructed by Imperial Japan during World War II, were the largest and most heavily armed ...

Okinawa — Okinawa prefecture’s capital city will evacuate 1,400 people next month while Japanese troops disarm and remove a suspected U.S. bomb left over from World War II. Workers found the ...

Keen Sword 25 takes aim at countering China's threats to the Japanese southwestern islands as well. U.S. military newspaper ...

I t has been 75 years since the Battle of Okinawa, the most blood-soaked battle of the Pacific War. It took place from late ...

Japan's Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, embarked on a one-way mission during the final stages of World War ...

The site of one of the Second World War’s most horrific battles, Okinawa was occupied for decades by the American military, which loaded the territory with military bases. Today a fifth of ...

A World War II FG-1D Corsair ... by downing seven enemy aircraft in combat patrol operations in the vicinity of Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, on April 16, 1945. Lerch was awarded the Navy Cross ...

A company tasked with searching for dud shells discovered one of two unexploded bombs Oct. 8 and the other three days later.