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Relatives Hunt for Japanese War Dead: Remains of 1.2 Million MIAs Overseas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Nakamura Ikemi
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Iwabuchi Nobuteru has visited New Guinea more than 200 times over the past 40 years –not to relax on a tropical beach but to look for human remains.

The divided East Indies island – the west half Irian, Indonesia, and the east half Papua New Guinea – saw heavy fighting between Japanese and Allied forces during World War II. Thousands of soldiers died there, and Iwabuchi's father, Keiji, was one of them.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 4 , Issue 11 , November 2006 , e11
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