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A Study of Japanese Government Policy on the Disposition of War Dead Overseas in the Early Postwar Period HAMAI Kazufumi Diplomatic Record Office Ministry of Foreign Affairs The disposition of the remains of Japanese nationals who died overseas during the Asian-Pacific War was a serious issue faced by the Japanese Government in the immediate postwar era. This paper examines how the Japanese Government dealt with this problem from the Occupation period to the dispatch of the first official mission to the Pacific Islands to repatriate the remains of Japanese war dead in 1953. At first the Japanese Government considered two kinds of measures to dispose of the Japanese war dead overseas. One was to repatriate the remains to Japan as much as possible; the other was to bury the dead in local areas. However, because of the strategic requirements of the United States and as a result of a review of this subject made by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Japanese Government finally decided to make a token excavation of the remains and repatriate only them to Japan. As a result, many remains of the Japanese war dead were left in local areas after the termination of the first project for dispatching official missions in the 1950s. The Japanese Government resumed dispatching missions in the late 1960s with a new policy which made it a rule to repatriate remains to Japan as much as possible. In this sense, there is discontinuity in policy toward the disposition of Japanese war dead overseas between the early postwar period and after the mid 1960s. The earlier policy is considered a transitional policy which the Japanese Government was forced to adopt, as Japan had at this time lost the systems of disposition for war dead because of its defeat in the war. 46