他分野の取り組み寄せ書きのある日章旗や千人針など戦没者の遺品をお持ちの方へ

戦没者の個人名が記載された日章旗などをインターネットオークションなどに出品された場合、御遺族の心情を害することもあります。

取扱いにお困りの場合、厚生労働省の資料で御遺族が特定できることもありますので、情報をお寄せ下さい。

具体的には、遺品に書かれた元の持ち主と思われる方の氏名や所属部隊名などを手がかりとして厚生労働省が保管する資料をもとに都道府県や市町村の協力を得て、元の持ち主やその御遺族を調査します。元の持ち主や御遺族から受領の意思が確認できた場合は、依頼者から遺品をお預かりし、お返しします。

寄せ書きのある日章旗や千人針は、戦時中、出征する人が、その家族や身近な人々から贈られ大切に身に付けていたものです。御遺族の中には、戦没者の遺品や御遺骨がない方もおられ、日章旗などの遺品が唯一の形見になる場合もあります。

こうした遺品がインターネットオークションで売買されていることは、御遺骨や遺品の帰還を待つ戦没者の御遺族にとっては耐え難いことであり、御遺族のこうした気持ちに御配慮いただきますようお願いいたします。

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For those of you have memorabilia of Japanese war dead, such as Nisshoki with messages or Senninbari

Selling wartime relics, such as Nisshoki (the national flag of Japan) with the personal name of the war dead attached, on online Internet auctions for sale may hurt the feelings of bereaved families.

If you have such a wartime relic and do not know what to do with it, please send us information as we may be able to identify the bereaved family from our data.

Specifically, we will try to identify the original owner of the wartime relic or their bereaved faimily by collating evidence from the relic, such as name or name of the military unit to which the owner belonged, with the date at the ministry, working in cooperation with prefectural and municipal governments in Japan. Once the original owner's or the bereaved family's intention to accept the return of the relic is confirrmed,we will collect the relic from you and return it to the original owner or the bereaved family.

Nisshoki with messages from loved ones and Senninbari (a cloth with one thousand stitches) were given by families and loved ones to Japanese soldiers as they departed for war, and the sold i ers kept such relics close to them during the war. For some bereaved families who have no memorabilia or remains of their loved ones,the lost Nisshoki and other artifacts may be the only memento that they will have of their loved ones.

　Please know that it is of considerable heartache and sadness for the bereaved families, who are waiting to have the remains or other memorabilia of their loved ones returned to them, to see such memorabilia traded on online auctions.

Click to download the Application for Reserch on Lost Artifacts. In requesting research on wartime relics, please fill the application form and return it to the Planning Division of Recorvery of the Rmains of War Dead, Social Welfare and War Victims' Relief Bureau, Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare of Japan. Please attach photographs of the rlic (including the full shots, shots of the top, bottom, right, left, and reverse side of the relic, and any evidence that could be used as a lead for the research, such as any names,etc. on the relic). If you are submitting your application by e-mail, please enter“Research on Wartime Relics”in the subject line.