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ITOMAN, Japan (AP) — 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 ...

Volunteer bone hunters and families looking for their loved ones say the government should do more to help. Gushiken says the bones are silent witnesses to Okinawa’s wartime tragedy, carrying a ...

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, in ...

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 ...