An Okinawan bone digger searches for remains from one of the fiercest battles of World War II
As a volunteer cave digger, Takamatsu Gushiken has unearthed the remains of several hundred people. Excavation is not his ...
Okinawan bone digger searches for the remains of WWII dead and worries their lessons are unheard
Takamatsu Gushiken hunts caves in Okinawa’s jungles for the bones of those who died in the WWII Battle of Okinawa, one of the ...
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Japanese digger searches for WWII remains: ‘Best way to honor war dead is never to allow another war’
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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Okinawan bone digger searches for remains from WWII battle
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 ...
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Takamatsu Gushiken has spent years voluntarily locating bodies, and fragments of bodies, of World War II victims in Japan’s ...
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An Okinawan bone digger searches for remains from one of the fiercest battles of World War II
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 ...
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An Okinawan bone digger searches for remains from one of the fiercest battles of World War II
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.