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...Much of the wartime population has passed away, but Hiromitsu Yasumura learned the tale from village elders while still a child?and was ordered never to tell an outsider. Sitting in the village meeting hall, the lone building in what passes for Main Street, the orchid farmer, 46, and his wife Rie, 45, recount what happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Okinawa Nights | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...dragged the bodies up a steep mountain face through jungle to a narrow, deep cave. They hid the bodies and covered the entrance with rocks, never to be touched until 1998 when local police found the cave and the remains within. "We have always called it Kurombo Gama," says Yasumura. Negro Cave. The three soldiers were black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Okinawa Nights | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

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