OPERATION FIREFLIES: THE SEARCH & RECOVERY OF REMAINS OF THE JAPANESE WAR DEAD IN BAMBAN HILLS
プロジェクトホタル: バンバン丘陵での日本兵の骨の回収。
Update: JAPANESE MINISTRY OF HEALTH, LABOR AND WELFARE (MHLW) RESULTS OF DNA TESTS CONCLUDING THE REMAINS OF WAR DEAD RECOVERED IN BAMBAN HILLS IN 2018 AS THOSE OF JAPANESE.
日本政府機関がバンバン丘陵で日本兵のものとして戦死者の骨を発見。
In 2018, in an official ceremony held at the Bamban WWII Museum, Bamban Historical Society led by Rhonie Dela Cruz officially handed-over, remains of suspected Japanese war dead that were recovered in 2015 inside a tunnel located near Fujiyama (Hill 1400), Bamban Hills, approximately 16 kilometers to the west of the town.
OPERATION FIREFLIES, the Bamban Historical Society/Bamban WWII Museum program to search and recover remains of war dead in Bamban Hills has been in the field doing its task since 2005, and had handed over sets of remains to the Japanese Government.
Photographs shows our mission on the slope near Fujiyama, recovering parts of remains of suspected Japanese war dead in 2015, and the official delegates from Japan Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare MHLW carefully examining the remains at the premises of Bamban Museum in 2018. These remains were handed-over to the Japanese delegates.
Today, after 7 years, DNA analysis conducted by Japan Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare concluded after the tests that the remains were found to be of Japanese. These findings have been concurred by the official delegation from the Philippine Government, working in tandem with the Japanese Government.
Other remains recovered in 2015 and are part of those who were handed over in 2018 in the custody of Bamban WWII Museum will be given to Japanese Government official delegates.
We welcome this positive outcome of the OPERATION FIREFLIES of Bamban WWII Museum, in our hope in finding and recovering remains of Japanese war dead that were left behind in the battlefields of the Bamban, as part of our humanitarian project.
PROJECT OPERATION FIREFLIES continue on its mission in search and recovery in Bamban Hills.
