Mistakes of war dead remains 94 people may be non-Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare December 19th 4:17
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, which is verifying the problem of misplaced remains of the war dead, revealed that the remains of 94 newly collected remains in Siberia may not be Japanese. The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare is going to confirm again whether the remains of approximately 10,000 people collected so far are Japanese.
In September, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare revealed that the remains of 597 Siberian detainees may not be Japanese, and collected in the Philippines last month. As for the remains of 10 people, it was announced that experts pointed out that they were not Japanese.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, which is examining this issue, held a press conference on the 18th and revealed that it was possible that the remains of 94 people were newly mistaken.
According to this, DNA analysis of the remains of 90 people collected in Siberia from 1999 to last year, 3 people collected in Myanmar in 2003 and 1 person collected in Tuvalu in 2014 this month It was pointed out that the specialist who did it may not be Japanese.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has confirmed that about 10,000 people collecting samples necessary for DNA testing out of the remains of 1.28 million people collected so far will be reconfirmed to be Japanese.