Chibichiri cave in Yomitan village, Okinawa. A place of mass suicide of Japanese soldiers and Okinawan civilians during the Battle of Okinawa -- Vitalie Ciubotaru, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Tings Chak and Atul Chandra We descended into Chibichibi Cave in southern Okinawa with the heavy feeling that this was not a site of distant history, but a warning. The cave is low enough that you have to bend forward as you walk. The air is damp, the light disappears quickly,