Drastic revision of the collection of remains of the war dead Remains of misunderstanding of remains of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare

Drastic revision of the collection of ashes of the victims of the war Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare received the problem of mistaking ashes on May 20, 5:37

In response to the problem of confusing the remains of the war dead, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has newly established a center that specializes in the scientific assessment of ashes, and has summarized the measures to prevent recurrence by radically reviewing the existing methods of ashes collection and assessment. I found out through interviews with related parties. The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare will report these recurrence prevention measures at an expert meeting held on the 21st.

Regarding the collection of the remains of the war dead, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, while grasping the suspicion of misunderstanding, revealed that it had been left unattended for many years, interviewed by NHK, last December and March, Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare research team Has published a survey report on the problem of the method of assessing the remains and the response.

In response to this, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has gathered interviews with related parties that it has compiled a recurrence preventive measure that drastically reviewed the existing way of collecting remains and appraisal.

As a result, in order to prevent mistakes, we will cancel the existing method of burning the ashes before returning to Japan before conducting DNA testing, and establish a new center within the province to carry out scientifically testing the remains. I am doing it. In addition, in order to strengthen governance, we will regularly hold meetings of teams within the Ministry to thoroughly share information including inconvenient issues, and also the minutes of the expert meeting on DNA appraisal, which was previously unpublished. It will try to proactively disclose information by publicizing the summary.

The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare will report these recurrence prevention measures at the expert meeting held on the 21st.