For a man who once narrowly escaped a cold-blooded execution after being forced at gunpoint to dig his own grave, 102-year-old Okinawan Shoko Nagamine is doing remarkably well.
"I still have many years of life left in me," insists the twinkly-eyed Battle of Okinawa survivor at his home in Nago, only a kilometer away from where the darkest moment of his life gave way to a miracle.
"It happened just over there, toward that mountain," he says in a mix of Okinawan and Japanese, pointing through the window of the living room, where he and the two youngest of his six children, Atsuko and Masatomo, are hosting us.
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