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80 years after World War II, Okinawa’s battle sites are still giving up bones and bombs

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bone hunter Takamatsu Gushiken looks for World War II-era remains in a cave on Okinawa. - Brad Lendon/CNN The “bone digger” slides ...
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Okinawa bell inscription mysteriously prioritizes Korea

Among the historical sites in Okinawa, Japan, Shuri Castle (首里城) stands out as a representative relic. Before 1879, when ...
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80 Years Later, Okinawa Remains Haunted by the Ghosts of War

A local teacher explains to school students about the collective suicides during the Battle of Okinawa. Credit: Cristian Martini Grimaldi In the Kerama Islands, just off the coast of Okinawa ...
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From the Battle of Okinawa to the New Cold War

We descended into Chibichibi Cave in southern Okinawa with the heavy feeling that this was not a site of distant history, but a warning. The cave is low enough that you have to bend forward as you ...
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80 years after World War II, Okinawa’s battle sites are still giving up bones and bombs

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 entrance, carefully avoiding the sharp ...