An Okinawa Prefecture island where mass suicides took place during World War II held a memorial ceremony on March 26, the ...

Gushiken tries to imagine being in the cave during the fighting ... Of the estimated 188,140 Japanese killed in the Battle of Okinawa, most of their remains had been collected and placed in ...

Gushiken tries to imagine being in the cave during the fighting ... Of the estimated 188,140 Japanese killed in the Battle of Okinawa, most of their remains had been collected and placed in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Outside the cave, the U.S. soldier continued to urge ... Now, at age 92, Onaga sees parallels between the Battle of Okinawa and the war in Ukraine. Huge numbers of civilians were embroiled in ...

Gushiken and other volunteer cave diggers — or “gamahuya” in their native Okinawan language — have found the remains of what are likely hundreds of people killed in the Battle of Okinawa.