Remains of 23 People Recovered from Pacific War Ship in Micronesia; IJN Destroyer Oite Sank with 640 Aboard in February 1944

FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA — The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry, in an operation held from late September to early October, recovered the remains of almost two dozen Pacific War casualties from a Japanese military ship which sank off the Chuuk Islands, about 3,000 kilometers south of Japan, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.