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 ...

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

Harumi Miyagi’s mother was a village employee on the small island of Zamami in Okinawa Prefecture who provided food and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Zamami, Okinawa Pref., March 26 (Jiji Press)--A memorial ceremony was held in an Okinawa Prefecture village Wednesday, the 80th anniversary of the U.S. military's landing on the Kerama Islands ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...