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An Excavation in Taiwan Searches for Remains of Japanese Soldiers Lost in WWII Ship Sinking
A Japanese group has begun excavating for WWII soldiers' remains, aiming to recover bodies from ships sunk by U.S. forces in 1944, where over 4,700 died, to provide closure for families.
- On Monday, the Japan Association for Recovery and Repatriation of War Casualties began a 12-day excavation near Pingtung County's decommissioned Third Nuclear Power Plant to search for remains of Japanese soldiers who died in World War II.
- Historian Kazuko Tachi initiated the search after researching the 1944 sinking of the Tamatsu Maru transport ship in the Bashi Channel, where more than 4,800 people perished and many bodies washed ashore on the Hengchun Peninsula.
- Local elders provided oral accounts identifying the rocky coastal site, while Kenting National Park Headquarters, Taipower, and the Pingtung County government officially authorized and supported the excavation operation.
- JARRWC official Tatsuaki Inoue told reporters that any discovered remains will undergo anthropological examinations and DNA testing, with hopes that soldiers can be repatriated to Japan.
- Approximately 1 million Japanese soldiers remain missing overseas, prompting ongoing recovery efforts supported by a 2016 law that accelerated DNA testing and repatriation 80 years after the war ended.
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Japan group searches for WWII remains in Pingtung
A Japanese group yesterday began excavating near Pingtung County’s decommissioned Ma-anshan Nuclear Power Plant in search of the remains of Japanese soldiers who died during World War II. The excavation, outside the plant’s water discharge outlet, is being led by the Japan Association for Recovery a
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