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In southern Taiwan, a team is on a solemn seven-day mission to recover the remains of over 4,700 Japanese soldiers lost in a 1944 naval attack off the Bashi Channel. With only 65 survivors, many bodies are believed to have washed ashore here. If remains are found, DNA samples will be sent to Japan for identification under a 2016 law aimed at speeding up recovery efforts. This isn’t just history—it’s healing for families still searching for closure, echoing a similar effort in 1975 that recovered 242 bodies. Years of research, local collaboration, and religious groups’ involvement reveal how deeply this search touches the lives of those who never got answers. Eighty years later, the work continues—not just to find the dead, but to bring peace to those left behind.

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