‘Remains of my father’: Iwo Jima sand brings closure to families of fallen Japanese soldiers

A united state airman from Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, accumulates black volcanic sand throughout a scenic tour of Iwo Jima, likewise called Iwo To, July 26, 2012. (Maeson Elleman/ UNITED STATE Air Force).

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa– A team of UNITED STATE as well as Japanese chroniclers are damaging a taboo as well as dispersing black sand from Iwo Jima to family members of Japanese soldiers that died in the bloody World War II fight.

Texas- based writer Dan King, a volunteer with the Iwo Jima Association of America, partnered in April with Japanese scientists Ko Fujiwara as well as Tetsuya Inada to provide 15 families around one ounce of sand each, Fujiwara stated by phone …