National Jan 8, 2014
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.
National / History Oct 10, 2013
Scholar aims to unravel Japanese remains issue
by Daisuke Nakai
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. "The issue is a result of Japan's (colonial rule of ...
National Jun 18, 2013
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 ...
National Jun 9, 2013
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. The LDP aims to submit a bill to an ...