A massacre of dozens of shipwrecked Ryukyu islanders in Taiwan over a century ago was the trigger for a power play that ...

MIYAKOJIMA, Okinawa Prefecture--For all of Japan's high-touted preparations to defend remote territory from invasion, the situation on Miyakojima island here illustrates how woefully ill-prepared ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Contractors looking for unexploded ordnance earlier this month found two suspected World War-II era bombs on Miyakojima, a popular tourist destination 170 miles southwest ...

Two unexploded bombs apparently used in World War Two have been discovered near the airport on Miyakojima Island in the southern Japanese prefecture of Okinawa. Officials of Miyakojima City and ...

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The invasion of Japan loomed. The Japanese military stationed about 100,000 troops on Okinawa, with the aim of preventing the invasion of the mainland. Narration Imperial Headquarters of the ...

The Battle of Okinawa was one of the bloodiest and costliest of World War II in the Pacific. The United States needed a base to stage an invasion of mainland Japan. The island of Okinawa was the ...

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According to the Okinawa Prefectural Government and the city of Miyakojima, which hosts the airport, a company tasked with searching for dud shells discovered one of the two unexploded bombs on ...