Unearthing Okinawa’s forgotten war dead

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Unearthing Okinawa’s forgotten war dead
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Like past Assassin's Creed games, Shadows serves up a clear premise: saving Japan from malevolent actors, this time through two controllable characters, Yasuke and Naoe, an African-born samurai and a young shinobi, who are each on tours of vengeance.

Bones of war: Visitors paying respects to WWII victims at the Himeyuri peace museum in Itoman, Okinawa Island. — APHe gently runs his fingers through the gravel until two pie­ces of bone emerge. These are from the skulls, he says, of an infant and possibly an adult.

Takamatsu Gushiken leaves a cave after a session of searching for the remains of those who died during the Battle of Okinawa towards the end of the World War II in 1945.“I’m worried about Okinawa’s situation now. ... I’m afraid there is a growing risk that Okinawa may become a battlefield again.” He makes a guess about the age of the victims, whether they died by gunshot or explosion, and puts details about the bones in a small red notebook.

Thousands of unidentified bones have been sitting in storage for years waiting for testing that could help match them with surviving families.Gushiken says the government’s DNA matching efforts have been too little and too slow. Their remains, as well as those of the Koreans mobilised by the Japanese during the war, may yet be found, Gushiken says.

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