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Remains Found at Undersea Mine Disaster Site in Japan Not Identified

Tokyo, Oct. 23 (Jiji Press)--The Japanese and South Korean governments have been unable to identify five sets of remains found at an undersea mine in western Japan where a fatal flooding accident occurred during World War II, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said Friday. The accident took place at the Chosei coal mine in Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Feb. 3, 1942, killing 136 people from the K...

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