{"id":263214,"date":"2022-04-26T02:44:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T21:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nagalandpost.com\/?p=263214"},"modified":"2022-04-26T02:44:35","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T21:14:35","slug":"japanese-delegation-to-take-remains-of-ww-ii-soldiers-for-dna-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2022\/04\/26\/japanese-delegation-to-take-remains-of-ww-ii-soldiers-for-dna-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese delegation to take remains of WW-II soldiers for DNA testing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A three-member Japanese delegation called on chief secretary (CS) of Nagaland, J Alam in his office on April 22, in connection to the \u201cWorld War-II Remains Recovery Project\u201d.<br>According to a DIPR report, the delegation expressed gratitude to the state government for the cooperation and support rendered to Japan in locating the remains of fallen Japanese soldiers during WW-II.<br>The team also briefed the state chief secretary on the progress made during past years.<br>They informed that the team would be taking samples of the collected remains to Japan for DNA testing in order to identify the remains.<br>Meanwhile, Alam assured the delegation of support and cooperation from the state government.<br>The meeting was also attended by Nagaland home commissioner and other senior state government officials.<br>It may be mentioned that the human remains were collected by members of the Japan Association for Recovery &amp; Repatriation of War Casualties with the help of the state government in 2019 under World War-II Remains Recovery project of Japan government.<br>The remains were collected during excavations carried out by a Japanese team from Wokha, Kohima and Phek districts since 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A three-member Japanese delegation called on chief secretary (CS) of Nagaland, J Alam in his office on April 22, in connection to the \u201cWorld War-II Remains Recovery Project\u201d.According to a DIPR report, the delegation expressed gratitude to the state government for the cooperation and support rendered to Japan in locating the remains of fallen Japanese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":263222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}