A list of Japanese women who were held in Soviet labor camps after the end of World War II was located in Russia in what could be the first discovery of its kind, a professor at Osaka University has said.

The list contains information such as names and years of birth for 121 women who were likely nurses assigned to a military hospital in what was then Manchuria, according to Michiko Ikuta, a professor emeritus at the university and the person responsible for the discovery.

It also includes the names of three German women believed to have been the wife of a German envoy and her attendants.