As the U.S. and Japan tighten their alliance and strengthen their military presence in the country's southwest Okinawan islands near China, Okinawa's long-running peace movement is in difficulty.

Eighty years ago, on April 1, a Sunday in 1945, seven troop divisions, four Army, three Marine, landed on the beaches of Okinawa, a remote tropical island the size of Prince George’s County. It was ...

A man cries in front of the Cornerstone of Peace monument walls on which the names of all those who lost their lives during the Battle of Okinawa, at the Peace Memorial Park in Itoman, Okinawa ...

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Anthony Kuhn / NPR President Biden and visiting Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will discuss upgrades to the two countries’ alliance that are being felt on this island, which hosts some 70% of U ...

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On Okinawa, where more than four years ago U.S. arms won a famous and a costly victory (80,000 dead & wounded), General Douglas MacArthur’s Pacific command has carried on a postwar occupation without ...

Leaders of the U.S. and Japan meet tomorrow for a summit that's expected to focus on military cooperation - specifically on Japan's southwest islands closest to China and Taiwan. NPR's Anthony Kuhn ...