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Okinawan bone digger searches for remains from WWII battle
As a volunteer cave digger, Takamatsu Gushiken has unearthed the remains of several hundred people killed in one of the ...
Okinawan bone digger searches for the remains of WWII dead and worries their lessons are unheard
Takamatsu Gushiken hunts caves in Okinawa’s jungles for the bones of those who died in the WWII Battle of Okinawa, one of the ...
CBS News15d
Volunteer searching for WWII dead in Japanese caves unearths remains of hundreds of people
Gushiken says when he was a child growing up in Okinawa's capital, Naha, he would go out hunting bugs and find skulls still wearing helmets. Nearly 80 years after the end of World War II ...
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Japanese digger searches for WWII remains: ‘Best way to honor war dead is never to allow another war’
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 ...
An Okinawan bone digger searches for remains from one of the fiercest battles of World War II
Takamatsu Gushiken hunts caves in Okinawa's jungles for the bones of those who died in the WWII Battle of Okinawa, one of the ...
Military.com15d
An Okinawan Bone Digger Searches for Remains from One of the Fiercest Battles of World War II
Gushiken says when he was a child growing up in Okinawa's capital, Naha, he would go out hunting bugs and find skulls still wearing helmets. Nearly 80 years after the end of World War II ...
Volunteer discovers over a thousand World War II casualties’ remains which await identification
Takamatsu Gushiken has spent years voluntarily locating bodies, and fragments of bodies, of World War II victims in Japan’s ...
Hindustan Times15d
An Okinawan bone digger searches for remains from one of the fiercest battles of World War II
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 unaccounted for.
Sydney Morning Herald6d
Old bones on jungle island sound warning to those living here today
He carefully places them in a ceramic rice bowl and takes a moment to imagine people dying 80 years ago as they hid in this cave during one of the fiercest battles of World War II. His hope is ...
China’s military is going to war against itself
Two recent waves of purges — the first beginning in 2023 and ending in the middle of last year and the second beginning in ...
The Straits Times21d
World War II shows that aggression will end in failure, Taiwan tells China
TAIPEI -Taiwan’s Defence Ministry said on Feb 28 that the history of World War II shows that aggression and expansion will end in failure, responding to Chinese comments that the island would ...