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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.

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