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 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 ...

It occurred at the bottom of a small valley not far from the coast, in the village of ... committed by Japanese soldiers in China had come back to haunt the people in the cave, fueling their ...

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.” ...