looking to turn up the remains of people who hid in caves like this one during the World War II Battle of Okinawa. This is the life’s work of the bone digger, Takamatsu Gushiken. He spends much ...

ITOMAN, Okinawa Prefecture—A search of a cave here uncovered the bones of six adults and two children who likely died during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa. The bones were collected in late February ...

The World War II Battle of Okinawa left an estimated 240,000 ... Bone digger Takamatsu Gushiken, who spends his time in caves in Okinawa, explained to CNN that of the 1,400 sets of remains ...

For more than 40 years, Gushiken has volunteered to go into those caves and search for the remains of people who died in the Battle of Okinawa. “They still keep turning up,” he said.

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 ...

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 ...