Volunteer discovers over a thousand World War II casualties’ remains which await identification
Takamatsu Gushiken has spent years voluntarily locating bodies, and fragments of bodies, of World War II victims ... of those ...
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Passing On the History of Aggression: Three Generations Sustain Wartime Memories
This year marks eight decades since the end of World War II. Satō Susumu still works to ... “The fate of Japanese soldiers in the Pacific War was wretched. There were about 2.3 million military ...
Airman who was shot down, imprisoned in Japan during World War II accounted for
A World War II airman who was taken captive by Japanese forces and died in a prison fire after his plane was shot down has ...
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The Costs of War
(All three are called "casualties.") Some tallies included ... The Pacific War, 1931-1945: A Critical Perspective on Japan's Role in World War II. New York: Pantheon Books, 1978.
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Volunteer searching for WWII dead in Japanese caves unearths remains of hundreds of people
Island haunted by one of World War II's deadliest battles On April 1 ... Of the estimated 188,140 Japanese killed in the Battle of Okinawa, most of their remains had been collected and placed ...
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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 ...
Okinawa marks 80 years since start of ground battle in WWII
Village officials led a memorial service in Zamami, Okinawa on Wednesday to commemorate the beginning of ground battles there ...
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WW2: Was it right to bomb Hiroshima?
Eighty thousand men, women and children were killed and tens of thousands wounded ... the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. WW2: How close did D-Day come to failure?
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It’s a miracle, say family of Japanese soldier killed in WWII, as flag returns from U.S.
Toshihiro Mutsuda was only 5 years old when he last saw his father, who was drafted by Japan's Imperial Army in ... museum aboard the USS Lexington, a WWII aircraft carrier, in Corpus Christi ...