As the 80th anniversary of the end of Iwo Jima — the infamous World War II battle against the Japanese Army — approaches on ...

A campaign for these descendants to live on the island has been met with decades of resistance by the Japanese government The descendants of fishermen and farmers evacuated from Iwo Jima shortly ...

Marine amphibious tractors burn after being hit by Japanese mortar shells during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. (U.S. Marine ...

Tokyo hopes joint memorial will underline commitment to security alliance, but Hegseth expected to ask Japan to do more to ...

The Pentagon said that the page and others, which were removed under the Trump administration’s wide-ranging crackdown on ...

23, 1945.Credit...Joe Rosenthal/Associated Press Supported by By Hannah Beech Half Japanese and half American, Hannah Beech has lived with the shadow of Iwo Jima for her entire life. Her father ...

Members of the 120-strong Iwo Jima Return Promotion Council submitted ... the issue has not attracted much attention in the Japanese media and there has been little support for our campaign ...

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He plans to attend a joint Japan-U.S. memorial service on March 29, which would make him the first Japanese prime minister ...

Pfc. Frederick Rickard's death on Iwo Jima was the family's second tragedy in four months. His brother died in a Christmas ...

After 36 days, the Marines secured Iwo Jima. A short time later, U.S. aircraft were able to use its runway, which—combined with the island’s proximity to the Japanese mainland—made it a strategic ...

Roughly 70,000 U.S. soldiers fought to take Iwo Jima. More than 6,500 were killed. Of the 20,000 or so Japanese defending the island, about 19,000 were killed in combat.