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Sealed Casket
#11… A sealed casket carrying one of the five dead disinterred at Ejit for reburial at Rongelap, is swing aboard TLST 618 while it was moored at Uliga, Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands.
Transporting Their Ancestors
#4… Residents of Ejit disinter their dead for transport to Rongelap and reburial.
Japanese Wind Up Straggler Search Photo 2
LAST RITES – Heads bowed, members of the Japanese government team which has been searching for stragglers wait for fire to consume the bones of Japanese troops who died on the island. The funeral ceremony took place on the beach at Lujana. Left to…
Japanese Wind Up Straggler Search Photo 1
THEY DIED HERE – In a cave at the base of the cliff in the Lujana area, Bunzo Minagawa (l) and Gonzo Hiroishi (r) collect the shattered bones of former Japanese soldiers who were killed in mop-op operations after the American invasion
Japanese Wind Up Straggler Search
Gonzo Hiroishi, leader of the Japanese Straggler investigative team, has said their time has ran out in search of a reported straggler seen on Route 3. Before Hiroishi left, the remains of his former comrades were cremated in the Lujuna beach area
