Russia Returns Japan POWs Remains
MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia has returned the remains of 13 former Japanese prisoners of war found in a former World War II concentration camp, the ITAR-Tass news agency said today.
Workers supervised by the Japanese Health Service and Social Welfare Ministry have been digging up remains from the Khalaza-2 concentration camp in the Russian Far East since the beginning of October. The POWs were kept at the camp from 1945 to 1948.
Russia and Japan have been working together for six years to find the remains of missing POWs, said Valentina Buraya, first deputy chairman of the Primorye branch of the Russian Peace Fund. Japan is paying for the project.
It was not clear exactly when the latest remains were repatriated.
Buraya said 113 burial sites have been found in the Primorye region
alone and that 1,100 remains have been returned to Japan.
