National / History Jun 26, 2020
Witness to Battle of Okinawa awaits rebuilding of castle of peace
A fire in October 2019 marked the second time that Zenichi Yoshimine had seen Shuri Castle burn.
National Jun 23, 2020
Okinawa marks 75 years since end of fierce World War II battle
Annual memorial service was held on a scaled-down basis due to the coronavirus outbreak.
National / Reference / History | FYI Jun 23, 2020
The Battle of Okinawa: Fierce fighting at the end of World War II
by Eric Johnston
By the end of the battle, around 100,000 Japanese soldiers had died, either killed in combat or by suicide.
National / History | JAPAN TIMES GONE BY Jun 6, 2020
Japan Times 1995: Police storm jet, rescue hostages in Hokkaido
Riot police storm a hijacked All Nippon Airways jumbo jet in dramatic predawn rescue, rescuing 364 captives to end a nearly 16-hour standoff.
National / History | JAPAN TIMES GONE BY Apr 4, 2020
The enemy forces landed in an area extending from the neighborhood of Kitadani to the vicinity of Cape Zampa in the southwestern part of the main island of Okinawa at about 10 a.m. on April 1 and are now continuously reinforcing their troops.
Commentary / Japan Apr 1, 2020
The Battle of Okinawa: Could more civilians have been saved?
by Robert D. Eldridge
The true lesson of the Battle of Okinawa may be that civilian deaths in war can and should be kept to the absolute minimum.
Art Jun 28, 2016
Okinawa museum gives historical perspective to U.S. base issue and World War II
by May Masangkay
Attending a protest is not the only way to gain understanding about the postwar reality of U.S. bases in the southern island prefecture of Okinawa. A museum adjacent to a key U.S. base has become an unlikely place where lessons about the roots of ...
National Jun 23, 2016
Battle of Okinawa anniversary marked with opposition to U.S. bases, anger over SOFA
by Eric Johnston
Okinawa on Thursday marked 71 years since the end of the battle with opposition to a new U.S. facility and calls to overhaul the SOFA agreement.
National / History Oct 19, 2015
Hawaii pig shipment after the war to be memorialized in Okinawa
To remember the story about Japanese immigrants in Hawaii sending a cargo of pigs to Okinawa to help alleviate a food crisis after World War II, a stone monument of porkers will be built in the city of Uruma in March. As Okinawa and Hawaii ...
National Aug 17, 2015
Prince Akishino, the younger son of Emperor Akihito, attended a gathering with his family in Tokyo on Monday to commemorate the Battle of Okinawa 70 years ago and mourn its victims. His wife, Princess Kiko, and two of their children, Princess Kako and Prince Hisahito, ...
National / History Jul 29, 2015
How an old banyan tree kept a WWII soldier alive
by Keiichiro Hoshino
The children and grandchildren of a former Imperial Japanese Army soldier visit Ie Island in Okinawa Prefecture by ferry from Okinawa Island every spring.
National / History Jul 29, 2015
'Anti-war landowner' stands firm, refuses to sign base lease
by Masanori Fukuda
Shuden Teruya is known in the city of Okinawa as an "anti-war landowner" and he wouldn't want it any other way. Teruya, 77, owns some 7,000 sq. meters of land within the huge U.S. Kadena Air Base that straddles the city as well as the ...