The health ministryconcluded that theremains were those of non-JapaneseAsians that had beenused in "medicaleducation" or recovered from war zonesforanalysis in Japan.
According to the JapaneseMinistryofEducation and Science, the number ofJapanese studying in college and university programs abroad began rising after 1986 and peaked in 2004 at 82, 942.
Leaders use the cooperative nature ofJapanese society to their own advantage, says Yoshio Oshitani, a specialist in moral instruction at Japan's MinistryofEducation.