Japanese Kokoda remains return home

Antipodean Andy · Apr 27, 2009

Hopefully some closure for some families.

Japanese Kokoda remains return home - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

The remains of Japanese soldiers found by a tour company on the Kokoda Track have been handed back to the Japanese Government.

Four skeletons were found buried along with other personal items in an eroded river bank while Kokoda Spirit was conducting a training trek in February last year.

Kokoda Spirit took the four skeletons down the Kokoda Track last week after getting permission from Japanese authorities to exhume them.

They have been taken to the Japanese Embassy in Port Moresby.

Kokoda Spirit's managing director, Wayne Wetherall, says it was an emotional journey.

"We'd like to think that if it was one of our boys found out in the jungle somewhere that our former enemies would give them due respect and then try and bring them back to their homeland as well," he said.

He says the soldiers were killed in an ambush by Australian diggers in September 1942.

Mr Wetherall hopes the return of the remains will bring closure to the soldiers' families.
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liverpool annie · Apr 27, 2009

I like to hear stories like that ! ...... I hope former enemies will continue to do that !

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