Volunteer discovers over a thousand World War II casualties’ remains which await identification
Over 180,000 remain unidentifiable.
Sawaka Nakano, 42, a soldier with the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force's Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade (ARDB), stands on the flight deck under a rainbow on the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force's amphibious transport ship JS Osumi (LST-4001) in waters close to Okinawa (illustrative)(photo credit: Issei Kato/Reuters)