The health ministry concluded that the remains were those of non-Japanese Asians that had been used in "medical education" or recovered from war zones for analysis in Japan.

卫生部的结论是，这些遗骸属于非日本的亚洲人，是用于“医学教学”或者是从战区运到日本进行分析的。

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The number of cases of H1N1 flu virus in Japan climbed to 17 on Sunday, a health ministry official said.

一名卫生部官员本周日透露，日本甲型流感的确诊案例已攀升至17人。

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The lottery is to be managed by the National Stadium and School Health Centre of Japan, a boondoggle run by the education ministry to provide cushy jobs for its retiring bureaucrats.

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In January the Ministry of Health and Welfare published a new set of figures which suggested that Japan's working population, now 87m, has already peaked, even though the population as a whole, now 126m, is still rising.

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