Discussion
In early April 1951, during the Korean War, the United Nations Command built the United Nations Cemetery in Danggok-ri, Gyeongsangnam-do. Under the rapidly changing circumstances, U.N. soldiers were buried in U.N. cemeteries or, in the case of U.S. soldiers, returned home.The presentation re-examines the personal identification of the remains of U.N. soldiers in graves registration office, which existed in Kyushu, Japan from 1951 to 1956. The task was operated in secret by the Japanese. It also cross-analyzes various archival sources, including the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, to find out how "reading bones" identification work provided anthropological support in the Korean War and examine its implications.This reveals for the first time that Kyushu, which had been overlooked in previous studies, became an important nodule among Korea, the U.S. and Japan linking the remains of U.S. soldiers, repatriation, and U.N. cemeteries until the mid-1950s.
