Takamatsu Gushikena turns a pillow and it enters a cave buried in Okinawa in the jungle. Gently gently running gently until the bone parts emerge. These are the skulls, a baby, and perhaps that he is mature.
It places rice in a ceramic bowl and is a moment to represent people who were dying 80 years ago, in one of the hardest fights of World War II. His hope is that the deceased can meet with families.
About 1,400 people found in Okinawa are saved to identify the DNA test. So far only six are identified and returned to their families. The families who seek bone hunters of volunteers and their loved ones say that the government had to do more.
Gushiken says the bones are silent witnesses Okinawa’s Wartime TragedyCurrent in his defense of today’s defense in his defense in his defense in the defense of china stresses, a claim about the Taiwan’s self-government in Taiwan in Territorial Litigation and Beijing.
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“The best way to honor the dead war is never allowed another war,” Gushiken says. “I’m worried about the status of the okinawa now. … I’m afraid that Okinawa battlefield can become more and more risky.”
Island One of the most deadly world war fights
(1945, on11US troops landed on Okinawa From Japan to the Peninsular, he started a fight until the end of June and killed about 12,000 Americans and more than 188,000, half of them Okinawan civilians. Those who include the students’ suicide masses prescribed by the Japanese military, historians say.
The fight is in Itoman, Gushik and Volunteer in the Cave of Diggers, or “Gamahuya” in his original Okinawan language – there are probably hundreds of people.
He tries to imagine being in the cave during the fight of Gushik. Where would it hide? What would he feel? He guesses the age of the victims, whether they died a gun or explosion, and puts details on bones in a small red notebook.
After the war, Okinawa depended on US occupation until 1972, 20 more than most Japanese, and remains host US military presence until today. When Japan enjoyed the economic return of the war, Okinawa’s economic development, education and social development stopped behind.
Gushiken says when he was growing in the capital of Okinawa, nahah, he would take hunting bugs and find the skulls that wear helmets.
Slow search search
In the end of World War IF and about 80 years, 1.2 million dead Japanese wars are not supported yet. That is mainly 2,4 million Japanese soldiers, Japanese XX. They died at the beginning of the 19th century.
Thousands of unidentified bones have been stored every year, waiting for the tests that can help us in line with surviving families.
Gushiken says that the government’s DNA efforts have been very slow and slow.
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The 1988,140 Japanese died in the Battle of Okinawa, most of their footprints gathered and received at the National Cemetery of Island, says the Ministry of Health. About 1,400 traces of recent decades are stored in the warehouse. The identification process has been great pain.
Only in 2003 the Japanese government matched the families of the dead DNA, but the tests were limited to the traces found with their identities to their identities.
In 2016, Japan launched a law of recovery initiatives to launch initiatives to match the DNA of the U.S. Department of Defense and promote collaboration. Lear a lear later, the government spread the work to civilians and tests allowed in body bones.
All of them, including 1,280 remains of the Japanese war, including Okinawa, DNA studies have been identified since 2003, the Ministry of Health said. The remains of about 14,000 people are stored in the Ministry of Future Tests.
Hundreds of American soldiers are not allowed. Their remains, as well as the Koreans mobilized by the Japanese during the war, says Gushiken says.
Location and identification of decades are becoming increasingly difficult for families and relatives, memories disappear, artifacts and documents are lost, says Naoki Tezukak, a servant of the Ministry of Health.
“The progress has been slow everywhere,” Tezukak said. “Ideally, we hope to just collect traces, but return to their families.”
History burden
Japan is accelerating military construction, sends more troops and weapons to Okinawa and its external islands. Here are many bitter memories of the Japanese Army War of the war today see the current military construction with Varess.
Washington and Tokyo see a strong military presence as a key bully against China and North Korea, but many Okinawa complained of noise related to American troops, pollution, airplanes and crimes.
Okinawa is currently more than half of 50,000 American troops located in Japan with the majority of the lowest island facilities in the southern US. Tokyo will go to the US Sea-Station, which is placed in the crowded town, after years of friction, but Okinawans are angry at a plan that would move to the east coast of the island and can use the land with remains for construction.
Gushiken say that ITan caves must be protected from the development, in order to know the history of the younger generation, and so search engines can complete work.
Like him, some Okinawa say that the lessons of war suffering are forgotten.
Tomoyuki Kobashigawa’s half sister married Michicho was soon died. He wants to ask for a DNA to find a DNA. “It’s very sad … if we had lived, we had good siblings.”
The lost remains of the lost “liability of responsibility”, “Kobashigawak says Kobashigawak.” I’m afraid that Okinawan people will embrace in a war again. “