DNA Testing Identifies Young Hiroshima Bombing Victim
This represents the first instance of a victim of the atomic bomb being successfully identified using this technique, the Hiroshima city government stated Monday, as reported by a news agency.
The hair and ashes stored at the Peace Memorial Park were confirmed to belong to Hatsue Kajiyama, who disappeared following the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, near the conclusion of the war.
The hair had been carefully kept along with ashes, listed under the name Michiko Kajiyama in the burial records for unclaimed remains.
Hatsue’s 60-year-old nephew, Shuji, however, informed city officials that the name may have been recorded incorrectly and requested a verification of the remains.
From late November through earlier this month, Kanagawa Dental University extracted DNA from the hair and compared it with the DNA of Hatsue’s 91-year-old sister, ultimately confirming that the ashes belonged to Hatsue.
Currently, the unclaimed ashes of roughly 70,000 victims are maintained in a memorial mound, with hair samples preserved in urns for about ten of them.
Going forward, city authorities plan to carry out DNA testing on hair samples if requested by the families of the victims.
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