Japan to Exhume Remains of About 1,000 WWII Dead; Mass Burial Site Confirmed on Peleliu Island

PELELIU ISLAND, Palau — A mass burial site where the remains of Japanese soldiers were interred by the U.S. military on Peleliu Island, a fierce battleground during the Pacific War, has been definitively located. Japan’s Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry will begin full-fledged collection of remain...