Takamatsu Gushiken turns on a headlamp 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, ...

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 entrance, carefully avoiding the sharp limestone roof while ...

Eighty years on from the Battle of Okinawa during World War II, the remains of some of those killed are still being discovered. A 71-year-old volunteer is on a mission to find what he calls the ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Sumie Oshiro was 25 when she and her friends tried to kill themselves to avoid capture by U.S. soldiers at the start of the bloody Battle of Okinawa. "We were told that if women were ...

Japanese soldiers recovered remnants of a grenade, believed to be a World War II leftover, that workers found smoking Thursday at a construction site on Okinawa. The workers were excavating a site at ...

NAHA, Okinawa — Japanese troops detonated 24 suspected U.S. shells off the coast of Okinawa’s capital Wednesday, the third disposal of World War II ordnance in a month on the former island ...