to pay their respects to the Japanese soldiers who died in the bloody WWII battle in Saipan. (China Daily/Reuters Photo) ...

Of the 30,000 Japanese troops who defended Saipan, less than 1,000 remained alive when the battle ended July 9. However, it was the civilian casualties that stunned American troops. As the battle ...

In July that year, the U.S. military captured Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands some 2,500 kilometers south of the Japanese mainland ... the U.S. military bomb civilians who were just ...

The caller, obviously a non-Japanese speaker ... During World War II, more than 50,000 people, including civilians, died on Saipan--the site of the gruesome Battle of Saipan in 1944.

Located about 2,400 kilometers south of Japan, Saipan Island was under Japanese ... Japanese Army were killed in the fighting, while many civilians, including local residents, also died.

Of the 30,000 Japanese troops who defended Saipan, less than 1,000 remained alive when the battle ended July 9. However, it was the civilian casualties that stunned American troops. As the battle ...