He carefully places them in a ceramic rice bowl and takes a moment to imagine people dying 80 years ago as they hid in this cave during one of the fiercest battles of World War II. His hope is ...

The Associated Press Okinawan bone digger searches caves for the remains of WWII dead Posted: March 6, 2025 | Last updated: March 6, 2025 Eighty years on from the Battle of Okinawa during World ...

looking to turn up the remains of people who hid in caves like this one during the World War II Battle of Okinawa. This is the life’s work of the bone digger, Takamatsu Gushiken. He spends much ...

and children were brutally killed by Japanese soldiers during World War II. The victims were local villagers who had been rounded up and taken to the cave with the promise of food but were then ...

Some 100 people, including bereaved families, on Saturday mourned those who died in a mass suicide at a cave in Okinawa Prefecture 80 years ago in the final stages of World War II. They offered a ...