VOX POPULI: On Okinawa Memorial Day, echoes of the war remain in caves Vox Populi, Vox Dei is a daily column that runs on Page 1 of The Asahi Shimbun. June 23, 2023 at 14:39 JST. Share; Tweet ...

Trekking through mud and rocks in Japan's humid Okinawan jungle, Takamatsu Gushiken reached a slope of ground where human ...

An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the scars remain, allowing visitors to get up close and touch history.

Battle of Okinawa, volunteers like Takamatsu Gushiken are still recovering WWII remains from jungle, These remains have the ...

Itoman, Japan (CNN) — The “bone digger” slides into a thin crevice on a hill in the Okinawan jungle. He’s a slight man, nimbly fitting his frame through the cave ...

An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the scars remain, allowing visitors to get up close and touch history.

The arrival of the American military in Okinawa in the spring of 1945 marked the beginning of one of the bloodiest battles in the Pacific and the start of a presence that, 80 years later, still ...

They would be among the estimated 240,000 people killed or missing in the Battle of Okinawa, from the landing of the US invasion force on April 1, 1945, to the Americans’ declaration of victory ...

An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the scars remain, allowing visitors to get up close and touch history.