After landing on central Okinawa Island in April 1945, U.S. forces advanced southward to Shuri (present-day Naha), where the Japanese military was based, and seized air stations built by Japanese ...

The relics are grim remnants of the vast tunnel network dug by the Imperial Japanese Army under Shuri-jo castle before the fierce Battle of Okinawa in 1945. Previously closed-off parts of the ...

By May 14, the American forces were nearing the Japanese headquarters in Shuri. There, an intense battle took place in which control of a strategic position called Sugarloaf Hill, changed hands 11 ...

NAHA--Okinawa Prefecture will preserve the remains of the Imperial Japanese Army headquarters that served as a command post beneath Shuri-jo Castle here during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa. As a ...

But if you ask this writer, there's no question: Shuri, T'Challa's 16-year-old sister and badass princess of Wakanda, deserves to be crowned queen of the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe.