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Okinawan bone digger searches for the remains of WWII dead and worries their lessons are unheard

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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 skulls, he says, of an infant and possibly an adult.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 that the dead can be…

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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.

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Volunteer searching for WWII dead in Japanese caves unearths remains of hundreds of people

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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 war's bloodiest. He considers the bones silent

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