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 ...

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 Battle of Okinawa lasted from April 1 to June 22, 1945. Two-time Purple Heart recipient LaSota returned to the island for ...

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 ...

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

Eighty years ago, on April 1, a Sunday in 1945, seven troop divisions, four Army, three Marine, landed on the beaches of ...

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 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 ...