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REMAINS

Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 8, 2019
Remains of 187 bodies removed from site of new National Stadium prior to construction, Tokyo officials say
The remains of at least 187 people dating back to the early 1900s or before were retrieved from the site of the new National Stadium in Shinjuku Ward before construction began, according to officials from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 28, 2018
1,852 more Japanese war dead laid to rest at Tokyo cemetery
The remains of an additional 1,852 unidentified Japanese who died during World War II were laid to rest at Chidorigafuchi National Cemetery in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward in a memorial service Monday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 5, 2017
Japan in talks on return of Ainu remains held in Australia
The government said Monday it will start negotiations with Australia toward returning the remains of indigenous Ainu people being held at Australian museums.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 23, 2017
Hokkaido University agrees to return remains of Ainu to descendants
Hokkaido University has agreed to return to descendants of the Ainu, an indigenous ethnic group concentrated in Japan's northernmost main island, ancestral remains exhumed from a cemetery for research in the 1930s, the descendants said this week.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 24, 2016
Japan, U.S. to jointly collect remains of war dead: sources
Japan and the United States will start jointly collecting war remains next year to accelerate the task and bolster the military alliance.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Mar 13, 2016
Disaster zones struggle with issue of saving 3/11 ruins
Tour guide Tsuyoshi Sawaguchi recently took an 11-member group from Kyushu University around the Taro district in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, to explain the impact of the tsunami that wrecked much of Japan's northeastern coastline in March 2011.
JAPAN
Nov 11, 2015
Remains of Japanese soldiers to be repatriated from Russia
Russia has handed over the remains of suspected Japanese soldiers who died defending an island in the Northern Territories from a Soviet invasion after Japan's surrender in World War II.
JAPAN / History
Jun 24, 2015
Government to conduct DNA tests on more remains of war dead
The government will conduct DNA tests on more unidentified remains collected from World War II battlefields and internment areas, and store the results in a database, welfare ministry sources said Tuesday.
JAPAN / History
May 26, 2015
Suspicion taints war dead from Philippines
The remains of some 15,000 Japanese soldiers who died in the Philippines during World War II continue to lie in undignified government storage after the media raised suspicions five years ago that the deceased include those of local residents obtained by profiteering grave robbers.
WORLD
Mar 5, 2015
Remains of ancient civilization uncovered in Honduran jungle
Archaeologists working in the dense jungle of Honduras have found dozens of artifacts at a site where they believe twin cities from an ancient civilization once thrived, the head of the country's anthropology institute said on Wednesday.
JAPAN
Jan 8, 2014
LDP eyes bill for faster recovery of soldiers' war remains
The LDP is planning legislation to designate retrieval of the remains of Japanese who died in the war as “a state responsibility” and accelerate the work toward the 75th anniversary in 2020 of Japan's World War II surrender.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Oct 10, 2013
Scholar aims to unravel Japanese remains issue
Naoki Mizuno, a Kyoto University professor, is hoping to shed light on the Japanese who died in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula around the end of World War II and remain buried there.
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.
JAPAN
Jun 9, 2013
LDP plans bill to speed up retrieval of Japan's war dead
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party is planning to propose new legislation to speed up the retrieval of remains of Japanese soldiers and civilians who died at home and abroad during the war, party sources said Saturday.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
In Japan, regional revitalization fails to halt population decline
Sakiyama elementary school in Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture, in March .Over the past decade, the government has directed efforts toward policies designed to give young people incentives to base themselves in rural areas.
Number of homeless in Japan hits record low
Homeless people sleep on the street in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in August 2021.
Ukraine is far from doomed
When comparing Ukraine’s military situation in 2024 to Europe’s in 1941, Russia’s defeat seems entirely possible.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Tokyo's Koto Ward by-election a race unlike any other
Natsumi Sakai, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan’s candidate and one of four female candidates running in the by-election, touts her experience as a cancer survivor and midwife as having prepared her to tackle issues that women currently face.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.

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