Reinforcement of scientific appraisal in war dead remains collection project To increase estimated request August 28, 05:05
While there are a series of suspected cases of misrepresenting Japanese remains in the war dead collection, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare will increase the budget request for next year's budget in order to strengthen scientific appraisal of remains. It was.
Regarding the remains collection business, experts who conducted DNA analysis on the remains collected by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare's delegation as "Japanese who were detained in Siberia" reported that they were not Japanese. This was revealed by NHK coverage.
Under these circumstances, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has decided to include approximately 3 billion yen, approximately 600 million yen higher than the current fiscal year, in order to increase the cost of collecting remains and to strengthen scientific appraisals. .
By this, next year, we plan to increase the number of field surveys to identify places where Japanese remains are present, and to dispatch ascertainers to the remains.
In addition, we will introduce new equipment to conduct DNA testing quickly, and study other testing methods that can lead to race identification.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare says, “We want to collect remains more accurately and improve the appraisal in the future.”
In addition, we will continue to confirm the facts and verify the problems that are suspected of mistaking the remains of Siberian detainees, and will announce the results next month.