NAHA--Kiyoshi Uezu and his parents lived through the Battle of Okinawa, but he feels they never truly “survived” the war. Both Okinawa and the Uezu family have a long history of suffering and ...

It stands in the Mabuni district of Itoman near the southern end of Okinawa’s main island. Aragaki was 2 at the time of the Battle of Okinawa in 1945. His father was killed in the war ...

This week, it was claimed that King Charles III had personally intervened in the naming of a new Royal Navy submarine which ...

The Royal Navy has been accused of renaming new attack submarine HMS Agincourt to avoid upsetting the French. The seventh ...

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A decision to rename nuclear-powered submarine HMS Agincourt is “woke nonsense”, a former defence secretary said. The ...

In 1944 the Merchant Marines commissioned the Rockland Victory, a Greenville Victory-class cargo ship built in 90 days by the ...

The Marine Corps and Navy need to keep investing in realistic training simulators, multi-domain integrated exercises, more lethality and advanced technologies that keep up with new threats to better ...

The controversial move not use the name Agincourt began more than a year ago, amid suspected concerns it would offend Nato ...

and Okinawa, which saw a fierce ground battle between Japanese and U.S. troops, the source said. The emperor and empress are expected to make a one-day trip to the Pacific island, around 1,250 ...

U.S. dominance of the island also holds symbolism in the history of Japan-U.S. relations, with Okinawa being the site of the largest land battle fought in the Pacific. However, this process will ...