Police Seeking Man Who Mailed Wwii Bones From Belfast

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BELFAST - Police would like to talk to the man who last month mailed human remains - which a typed, anonymous note identified as being skeletal bones of a World War II Japanese soldier - from the Belfast Post Office to the Consulate-General of Japan in New York City.

"It is not a criminal matter," Belfast police Sgt. Bryan Cunningham wrote Wednesday afternoon in an e-mail. "But the wishes of the mailer were that the remains be returned to Japan. He felt this was a soldier who fought for his country in World War II and deserved a decent burial in his home country. The problem is that the Japanese consulate cannot accept these remains without a little more information."

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Police Seeking Man Who Mailed Wwii Bones From Belfast

After the bones arrived at the New York consulate, staff there alerted local police, who are trying to determine whether the remains are in fact from 50-plus years ago and if they are of Japanese origin.

New York City police called New York's U.S. Postal Inspector Tom Boyle as well as...

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