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Okinawan bone digger searches for remains from WWII battle
As a volunteer cave digger, Takamatsu Gushiken has unearthed the remains of several hundred people killed in one of the ...
An Okinawan bone digger searches for remains from one of the fiercest battles of World War II
Takamatsu Gushiken turns on a headtorch and enters a cave buried in Okinawa's jungle. He gently runs his fingers through the ...
Okinawan bone digger searches for the remains of WWII dead and worries their lessons are unheard
Takamatsu Gushiken hunts caves in Okinawa’s jungles for the bones of those who died in the WWII Battle of Okinawa, one of the ...
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Push to preserve native Okinawan languages reaches Hawaii
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - While the culture of Okinawa continues to thrive in Hawaii, the native language of the southern islands of Japan is on the verge of extinction. The decline began in the ...
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Okinawan bone digger searches for remains from WWII battle
The fighting ended at Itoman, where Gushiken and other volunteer cave diggers — or “gamahuya” in their native Okinawan language — have found the remains of what are likely hundreds of people.
Push to preserve native Okinawan languages reaches Hawaii
While the culture of Okinawa continues to thrive in Hawaii, the native language of the southern islands of Japan is on the ...