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80 years after World War II, Okinawa’s battle sites are still giving up bones and bombs

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 ...
The Diplomat

80 Years Later, Okinawa Remains Haunted by the Ghosts of War

A local teacher explains to school students about the collective suicides during the Battle of Okinawa. Credit: Cristian Martini Grimaldi In the Kerama Islands, just off the coast of Okinawa ...
Military.com

An Okinawan Bone Digger Searches for Remains from One of the Fiercest Battles of World War II

Takamatsu Gushiken hunts caves in Okinawa's jungles for the bones of those who died in the WWII Battle of Okinawa. ITOMAN, Japan — Takamatsu Gushiken turns on a headtorch and enters a cave buried in ...
CounterPunch

From the Battle of Okinawa to the New Cold War

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 enough that you have to bend forward as you ...
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80 years after World War II, Okinawa’s battle sites are still giving up bones and bombs

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bone hunter Takamatsu Gushiken looks for World War II-era remains in a cave on Okinawa. - Brad Lendon/CNN The “bone digger” slides ...