The Archive · 1937

Women Tend Ashes

OF DEAD

Ten Look After Urns Bearing Japanese Soldier's Remains Ten Japanese women take care of ihe urns containing the ashes of the men who fell in action, which are brought in from the front lines.

These women, the Japanese press reports, receive the urns, carefully wrap each in-white cloth, and write on a piece of white paper tne name of the deceased.

Before the urns are placed aboard a ship which will take them back to Japan, the women assemble at the shrine to pay their last respects to the souls of the men who died for their country.

According to the reports, the women are the Misses Yuki Miura, Kinuko Hayashi, Suwa Harada, Hu Hirota, Toshiko an aah Sank Kunimitsu, Fumi Marutani, Fumi Foii, Michiyo Fuji Shizu Iwakoshi,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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