Bone Collectors: Searching For WWII Remains In Okinawa

Source: International Business Times

Takamatsu Gushiken has searched for WWII war dead for more than four decades in the Okinawan jungle AFP Trekking through mud and rocks in Japan's humid Okinawan jungle, Takamatsu Gushiken reached a slope of ground where human remains have lain forgotten since World War II. The 72-year-old said a brief prayer and lifted a makeshift protective covering, exposing half-buried bones believed to be those of a young Japanese soldier. "These remains have the right to be returned to their families," said Gushiken, a businessman who has voluntarily searched for the war dead for more than four decades.