We descended into Chibichibi Cave in southern Okinawa with the heavy feeling that this was not a site of distant history, but a warning. The cave is low ...

The “bone digger” slides into a thin crevice on a hill in the Okinawan jungle. He’s a slight man, nimbly fitting his frame through the cave entrance, carefully avoiding the sharp limestone roof while ...

Takamatsu Gushiken uses a hand hoe to delicately move dirt in a cave while searching for the remains of those who died during the Battle of Okinawa towards the end of the World War II in 1945, in ...

ITOMAN, Japan — Takamatsu Gushiken turns on a headtorch and enters a cave buried in Okinawa's jungle. He gently runs his fingers through the gravel until two pieces of bone emerge. These are from the ...

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Takamatsu Gushiken hunts caves in Okinawa's jungles for the bones of those who died in the WWII Battle of Okinawa, one of the war's bloodiest. ITOMAN, Japan — Takamatsu Gushiken turns on a headtorch ...