フィリピンでも遺骨取り違え　１１年に指摘、公表せず―厚労省

　戦没者遺骨収集事業でシベリア抑留者の遺骨を外国人と取り違えていた問題で、厚生労働省は１５日、２０１０年にフィリピンで収集した戦没者の遺骨の一部も１１年に「日本人のものではない」と指摘されていたことを明らかにした。
　シベリア抑留者の遺骨取り違え問題の調査チームによる検証の過程で発覚したという。厚労省の担当者は「信頼を欠く結果となり申し訳ない」と謝罪。これまで公表しなかった理由などについては、調査チームが追加で検証するという。（2019/11/15-20:52）

Experts suggested in 2011 that some of the remains collected in the Philippines in 2010 as those of the Japanese war dead were those of non-Japanese people, welfare ministry officials said Friday.
   The problem came to light during an investigation into a case in which the remains of local residents were collected in Siberia and brought to Japan as those of Japanese who died in the region during wartime.
   "We are sorry for not disclosing this matter, which has diminished public trust," a ministry official said in apology.
   An investigative group will look into the reason for not disclosing the problem until now, the ministry officials said.
   According to the ministry, teeth from 10 of the 2,191 sets of the remains recovered in June-July 2010 in the Philippines were examined to see if it was possible to have DNA testing on the remains collected from a southern country.