During World War II, the Imperial Japanese Army set up bases in Okinawa’s natural caves called “gama.” For more than 40 years, Gushiken has volunteered to go into those caves and search for ...

He spends much of his free time in caves like this in Okinawa, Japan’s southernmost ... he got the bulk of that during his first post-war visit in 2000. “If I had any dark corners in my ...

ITOMAN, Okinawa Prefecture—A search of a cave here uncovered the bones of six adults and two children who likely died during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa. The bones were collected in late February ...