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BURIAL

Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 13, 2018
An excavation of hu-man traits
The excavation of the tomb of the Tang Dynasty general Mu Tai (660-729, buried in 730) took place in Qingcheng County in China's Gansu Province in 2001. Unearthed were colorfully painted and realistically detailed small-scale sculptures of "foreign" peoples and their animals, such as horses and camels, which were used for transport and livelihood. These stand as counterpoints to the better known figural realism in bronzes of the earlier Warring States (475-221 B.C.) and Western Han (206 B.C.-A.D. 9) periods, and also the revered Terracotta Army made for the Chinese emperor, Qin Shi Huang (259-210 B.C.).
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 12, 2015
Remains match DNA of murdered Czar Nicholas II, wife Alexandra: Moscow
Russian investigators said on Wednesday new DNA tests conducted at the request of the Orthodox Church had confirmed that the exhumed remains of Nicholas II, the country's murdered last czar, and his wife, were genuine.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 13, 2015
Burial held for Japanese man killed in Bangladesh
A Japanese man who was shot dead last week in Bangladesh was buried on Tuesday morning at a cemetery in the country.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 3, 2014
Fukui man admits burying his mother, sister in his yard
Police on Wednesday arrested a 53-year-old man from Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, who is initially suspected of burying the bodies of his mother and sister in the yard of his home.
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 26, 2014
Sierra Leone Ebola burial workers dump bodies in pay protest
Burial workers in Sierra Leone have dumped dead bodies in the street outside a hospital to protest authorities' failure to pay bonuses for handling Ebola victims, in the latest strike to hamper the fight against the worst known outbreak of the virus.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 22, 2014
For baby boomers, return to nature emerges as alternative burial option
Toshiko Eguchi pays her respects to her late husband under a cherry tree, instead of kneeling before a gravestone.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 18, 2013
Japanese make trip to N.K. burial site
Japanese visitors paid their respects Sunday at a site near the port of Chongjin in northeast North Korea for relatives who perished, many in a Soviet labor camp, after the end of World War II and the end of Japan's colonial rule of the peninsula.

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