That included students and victims of mass suicides ordered by the Japanese military, historians say. The fighting ended at Itoman, where Gushiken and other volunteer cave diggers — or "gamahuya ...

Takamatsu Gushiken hunts caves in Okinawa’s jungles for the bones of those who died in the WWII Battle of Okinawa, 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 ...

As a volunteer cave digger, Takamatsu Gushiken has unearthed the remains of several hundred people killed in one of the ...

Cave diver Isaji was the first to enter in October ... days of further investigation this weekend. In contrast to the Japanese government's response, the South Korean authorities had been ...

He spent nearly three years in a mountain cave with his dog. It was the beginning of an ordeal in the wild that spanned 43 years and eventually earned him the nickname “cave man.” ...

Or in Japanese, “If there were a hole ... The national historic site is a group of horizontal cave tombs built in the late Kofun Tumulus Period (late sixth century to late seventh century).

Thai media have interviewed friends of the boys, some of whom said the group had sweets and flashlights when they entered the cave. Satoshi Goto is chairman of the Speleological Society of Japan ...