As a volunteer cave digger, Takamatsu Gushiken has unearthed the remains of several hundred people. Excavation is not his ...

As a volunteer cave digger, Takamatsu Gushiken has unearthed the remains of several hundred people killed in one of the ...

the remains of those who died during the Battle of Okinawa towards the end of the World War II in 1945, while in a cave in Itoman, on the main island of the Okinawa archipelago, southern Japan ...

The freezing cold, the impenetrable fog, and impossibly strong winds made Attu, one of several islands in the westernmost ...

An island haunted by one of the deadliest battles of World War II On April 1, 1945, U.S. troops landed on Okinawa during their push toward mainland Japan, beginning a battle that lasted until late ...

Gushiken shows a tooth of someone believed to have died during the Battle of Okinawa towards the end of World War II in 1945. (Hiro Komae/AP) In all, 1,280 remains of Japanese war dead ...

Itoman, Japan — Takamatsu Gushiken turns on ... ago as they hid in this cave during one of the fiercest battles of World War II. His hope is that the dead can be reunited with their families.

Nearly 80 years after the end of World War II, 1.2 million Japanese war ... Of the estimated 188,140 Japanese killed in the Battle of Okinawa, most of their remains had been collected and placed ...