Eleven explosive ordnance disposal divers from the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force’s Sub Area Activity Okinawa unit set off ...

Takamatsu Gushiken hunts caves in Okinawa’s jungles for the bones of those who died in the WWII Battle of Okinawa, one of the ...

Recently discovered images of prewar life in Naha not only depict ordinary folk ... that became Okinawa Prefecture in 1879 when the Japanese government incorporated the southernmost islands.

As a volunteer cave digger, Takamatsu Gushiken has unearthed the remains of several hundred people killed in one of the ...

Takamatsu Gushiken turns on a headtorch and enters a cave buried in Okinawa’s jungle. He gently runs his fingers through the gravel until two pieces of bone emerge. These are from the ...

Naha, he would go out hunting bugs and find skulls still wearing helmets. A slow search for remains Nearly 80 years after the end of World War II, 1.2 million Japanese war dead are still ...

Naha, he would go out hunting bugs and find skulls still wearing helmets. Nearly 80 years after the end of World War II, 1.2 million Japanese war dead are still unaccounted for. That’s about ...

Naha, he would go out hunting bugs and find skulls still wearing helmets. Nearly 80 years after the end of World War II, 1.2 million Japanese war dead are still unaccounted for. That’s about ...