remains

Kobe jazz singer recovers war remains in Okinawa
Maiko Masaki, a jazz singer in Kobe, recovers bones of the war dead from the 1945 Battle of Okinawa in a cave in Itoman, Okinawa Prefecture. (Provided by Tetsuji Hamada)
April 25, 2013
Most Japanese tourists travel to the country’s southernmost prefecture for its beautiful beaches and subtropical climate. But Maiko Masaki has spent her last nine visits...
High-tech radar to probe Iwojima runway for war...
Officials conduct a test with a newly developed radar system on Iwojima island. (Provided by the government’s team dedicated to collecting the remains of Japanese soldiers on the island)
August 22, 2012
With the remains of some 10,000 Imperial Japanese soldiers still unaccounted for on Iwojima island, one seemingly impenetrable final resting site is beneath a runway still in...
67 years on, Japan still haunted by war dead in...
Junshiro Kanaizumi talks about his war experiences while flipping through a photo album with pictures of his war buddies. (Tsutomu Yamatani)
August 15, 2012
The remains of more than 1 million Japanese soldiers lie in battlefields far from home. There are no markers, no graves and no mourners. Many sites are overgrown with jungle.
Japan, North Korean officials to meet for first...
Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura meets reporters on Aug. 14. (The Asahi Shimbun)
August 14, 2012
Diplomats from Japan and North Korea will meet for the first time in four yours later this month for talks that could touch on the contentious issue of the North's abduction of ...
Families of Battle of Okinawa's fallen still...
A postcard Sei Kuchikata sent to his family in Chiba Prefecture from Okinawa, his fountain pen and a photo of Sei Kuchikata, second from left (Soichiro Yamamoto)
June 24, 2012
Shohei Kuchikata died at the age of 97 in March knowing that the remains of his older brother, Sei, had at last come home.
EDITORIAL: Fresh approach needed to program of...
October 13, 2011
EDITORIAL: Fresh approach needed to program of collecting remains of war dead
Search lives on for Japan's 1 million missing war...
Takamatsu Gushiken preserves the remains of three people who died during World War II found in a bunker in Naha. (The Asahi Shimbun)
August 16, 2011
Sixty-six years after the end of World War II, Chuji Inoue and many others are fighting their own private little wars, trying to repatriate the remains of some 1.13 million...
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