IWO-TO, Japan (AP) — Japan’s Emperor Naruhito on Monday visited Iwo Jima to pay tribute to those who died on the island where ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito on Monday visited Iwo Jima to pay tribute to those who died on the island where one of World War ...

The 1.75 kilometers of tunnels make the complex “one of the largest underground bunkers in the Kyushu region” from the waning days of World War II ... six months before Japan’s surrender.

Marines launched their amphibious assault on Feb. 19, 1945. The Japanese had dug a vast defensive network of tunnels into the island’s volcanic rock. Of the 70,000 Marines who fought there ...

NAHA--Part of a tunnel network under Shuri-jo castle here ... which had overall command of the fighting late in World War II that is thought to have claimed the lives of one in four Okinawans.

an abandoned 250-meter long interconnected network of six bat-filled tunnels which served as a shelter and lookout for Japanese soldiers during World War II. The 3-kilometer long, scenic Valugan ...

He and many others were seasick and faced the threat of Japanese torpedoes ... Then at night, we’d go to the supply dump and dig a tunnel under the fence. The most precious thing inside was ...

Despite the successes of the I-19 in the war, Japan was never able to connect these victories with a larger strategy for ...