A Japanese-U.S. memorial service was held in Iwojima on Saturday to remember the victims of the brutal battle they waged on the Pacific island in the final stages of World War II. At the ceremony, hosted by the Iwojima associations of Japan and the United ...
When Yoshitaka Shindo was a boy, he did not hear much from his family about his grandfather, Tadamichi Kuribayashi, commander of the Japanese troops who fought and died in the bloody Battle of Iwojima. The battle, in which nearly 7,000 U.S. Marines and Navy sailors ...
Japan and the U.S. hold a ceremony to commemorate the 29,000 people who died in the Battle of Iwojima.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday visited Iwoto Island and pledged to speed up the recovery of the remains of Imperial Japanese Army soldiers killed in the Battle of Iwojima, in a pilgrimage intended to mark a break from the postwar period. "We have to ...
The battle had raged for four days, and would continue for 31 more, a marathon of sand and heat and unrelenting death. But at that moment there was an order from the brass: Get a bigger flag up there. The small American flag fluttering ...
