His 10 days at Iwo Jima were a “terrible, terrible experience with dead people everywhere,” he told Stars and Stripes in a ...
Eleven explosive ordnance disposal divers from the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force’s Sub Area Activity Okinawa unit set off ...
In addition to removing photos of a Medal of Honor recipient, some of the photos in the military's DEI purge seemed to be ...
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, considering the bones silent witnesses of Okinawa's ...
Takamatsu Gushiken has spent years voluntarily locating bodies, and fragments of bodies, of World War II victims in Japan’s ...
As a volunteer cave digger, Takamatsu Gushiken has unearthed the remains of several hundred people killed in one of the ...
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 ...