Bones Found in Okinawa's Cave
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Volunteer searching for WWII dead in Japanese caves unearths remains of hundreds of people
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Remains of 1,400 people found on Okinawa sit in storage for possible identification with DNA testing.
1,280 remains of Japanese war-dead, including six on Okinawa , have been identified by DNA tests since 2003 .
Nearly 80 years after the end of World War II , 1.2 million Japanese war dead are still unaccounted for.
Volunteer bone hunters and families looking for loved ones say the government should do more to help.
Tokyo has promised to relocate a U.S. Marine Corps air station that sits in a crowded town after years of friction.
Okinawans say they fear the lessons of their wartime suffering are being forgotten.
Tomoyuki Kobashigawa's half-sister Michiko was killed soon after she got married.
He wants to apply for DNA matching to help find her.