Volunteer looking for wwii dead in Japanese caverns are remaining hundreds of hundreds of people

Takamatsu Gushaken turns a boss and enter a cave buried in Okinawa jungle. He gently run their fingers through the gravel to two pieces of the emergent bone. These are from the cilial, says, of an ubtor and possibly an adult.

Places a care of them in a branch tight and take a moment of images that I die in this hyt in this hoses in World Hope is that the dies can be gathered with their families.

The remains of some 1,400 people are found on Okinawa sit in storage for possible identification with the DNA test. Let’s get up to here have been identified and returned to their families. The bone hunters and families of their lovers to their loved ones say the government should do more to help.

Gushike says bone are silent witness to The tragedy of Okinawa’s WartimeLoading a warning to the present generation as Japan of the shake their defense with the dinner and the gochy’s goching

“The best of honor the dead war is never allow another war,” says Gushken. “I am worried about Okinawa’s situation now. … Defendal to be a growing risk that Okinawa can become a battle of battle.”

Islands from one of the world’s more soft battles

On 1 April, 1945, American Troops Landed on Okinawa During their push for contentiously, I’ll send a battle that lasted until the end of June and killed about 12000 loves, half of a civil. That includes the students and victims of mass suicides ordered by Japanese military, historians say.

The finished fighting in itman, where Gjahaken and other cave cavern – or “Gamihaya” in his native Okina’s language – have found the remains of what they are probably a hundred people.

Gushken tries to imagine that being in the cave during the fight. Where would you hide? That would be feeling? He makes an assumption of the age of victims, either died by guns or explosion, and put the details on the bones in a reddish frame.

After war, Okinawa stopped under the US Occupation until 1972, 20 years longer than most Japan, and stays well The military presence of the US to this day. As Japan tasted a postwear nothing economic, economic development of okinawa, development and social

Gushiken says when I was a boy growing in the capital of Okinawa, he climbed Bugs and find the cranies always wear hoes.

A slow search for remains

Almost 80 years later at the end of World War II 1,2 million Japanese war still inaccount for. It’s about half of the 2.4 million Japanese, mainly soldiers, who died during the beginning of the 20th century warri.

Thousands of non-identified bones were sitting in the warehouse for the years waiting to proof that you could help them conjunct them with survivors families.

Gushiken says government efforts are too little and too slow.

Of the estimated 188,140 Japanese killed the battle of Okinawa, most of his arms were up and placed in the national circle on the Island, the health of health says. Around 1,400 best-found in recent decades feel in storage. The identification process has been painful.

It was only in 2003 Japanese’s japanese started the adk after the dead house, but tries were limited with teeth and the teeth in their identity.

In 2016, Japan has because of a launch letter the remains of recovery of remaining removal to promote the more I amceness with US Department. A LEAR, the government has extended work in the civiies and authorized tests on the member bone.

Throughout, 1.280 remarks of Japanese war, including six on Okinawa, have were identifiedhene from the essaysant attention to 2003, the health ministry has said. The remains of about 14,000 people are stored in the Minister Minister Mortarius for future test.

Hundreds of American soldiers remain unchanged for. Their remaining, as many of the hearts have mobilized by Japan during the war, can also be found, gushaken says.

The place of identification and identification of decades becomes simply becomes as families and kincloses, fave-in artifacts, mursiff, a health officer.

“Progress has been slow everywhere:” TEZUKA said. “Ideal, I hope not just pick up the remaining but return to their families.”

The load of the story

Japan is engaged a speele military construction, sending more troops and weapons to okinawa and their external islands. Many ones who have funny memories of Japanese army sees the actual militation housing with war.

Washington and Tokyo see strong military presence as a crucial bulwarar against Korea and many Okinawans have complained of noise and American troops.

Okinawa today is in the middle of the middle of 50,000 American troops were in Japan, with the majority of the US military computers. Tokyo has promised to relocate the nationale marine station in a crowded city after frictions stuck in a plane that okay the costumes containing the island that contains the construction.

Grohirken says iToman’s caves must be protected from that smaller generations can learn on the history of war, and thus about released as he can complete their job.

As he, some okinawani say they fear the lessons of their wartime shows are forgotten.

The Michoyuci Kobahaffa’s Half-Sister Manniko was killed as soon as he is married. He wants to ask the DNA that corresponds to help find her. “It is very much tru … if you had to be wasted, we can be so good of his friends.”

The missing vactive show “lack” of regrets in responds in the “Kobashigawiwa war says. “I’m afraid that okinawan people will be hugged in a war again.”