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From: Andi Wolos & Bob Necci

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Re: Japanese POWs Identified

Date: November 29, 2000

"Bodies of 110 ex-Japanese soldiers recovered in Siberia - MOSCOW,

The bodies of 110 Japanese soldiers who died in labor camps in Siberia after being detained by Soviet authorities at the end of World War II have been unearthed by Japanese health ministry officials and bereaved family members, Russia's Interfax news agency reported Thursday.

According to the report, the bodies, found in the Republic of Khakasiya in Siberia, will be transported to Japan on Sept. 10 after being cremated.

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Remains of Japanese POW in Siberia handed over to family.

UTSUNOMIYA, Japan - Keiko Fujita, 69, receives the remains of her father, Kenichi Mimura, a former Japanese serviceman who died in a Siberian labor camp a year after the end of World War II, from a Health and Welfare Ministry official at her home in Utsunomiya on Nov. 29. The remains were identified in late October by doctors at Tokyo's Teikyo University through a DNA test."

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