“Gamafuya” in the Okinawan dialect means a “cave digger,” and that is what Takamatsu Gushiken, a 69-year-old Naha resident, calls himself. During World War II, the Imperial Japanese Army s ...

In the blood-soaked spring of 1945, the Pacific War’s most devastating confrontation unfolded on a small Japanese island, ...

A Paleolithic period cave dating back 19,000 years ago in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, has been nominated as a special historic site, which would become the oldest if officially designated.