Survey for Japanese Soldiers’ Remains Program

06/04/2026

"Forgotten Battlefield: The Untold Story of Japanese Soldiers Ambushed at Pan Pet Village"

27/03/2026

"Lost in the Cave: Searching for Japanese WWII Soldiers Who Never Came Home"

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27/03/2026

Searching for Japanese Soldiers' Remains in Karenni's Jungle cave A Dangerous Rainy Season Mission"

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25/03/2026

Cry from the Darkness - The Cave That Calls Home - Lost Soldier’s Last Cry

our survey team embarked on a challenging mission to recover the remains of Japanese soldiers from the caves of Karenni–Shan State, Myanmar.Battling heavy ra...

22/03/2026

We identified and found at least 30 remains of the Japanese soldiers at Bar Pa Lo village, Pae Khone township, Shan State. However, there were no head for all the 30 remains because by the time, when the Bar Pa Lo village wanted to fight against the Japanese soldiers to leave the village, they went to ask help from the English and as a trade, they had to agree to give the heads of those Japanese soldiers to the English. With this agreement, the villagers got the guns and weapons to fight back the soldiers of the Japanese. This story was told by a witness, 88 years old U Kali who was himself also part of the villagers to fight back against the Japanese soldiers. He is still a live until now. U Harn from the village told us that they had to take back and preserve all the remains in a secure way because these were once stolen by some villagers from the neighbor village last year. He told us that he organize praying ritual in Christine way for those Japanese soldiers who were killed once a year. He also put a symbol of Christ on the gate of the Cave where Japanese soldiers’ remains are located and every night, he put on the candle.

19/03/2026

According to testimonies from elderly residents of Ho Wan Village, the cave was believed to have been used as a temporary camp by Japanese soldiers in the past. It was reported that dozens of Japanese soldiers had stayed inside the cave during that period.

A Japanese military officer reportedly ordered approximately 40 soldiers to leave the cave in order to search for food supplies and drinking water. When those soldiers reached the nearby fields, they were surrounded and attacked by armed local forces together with British soldiers. As a result of the attack, all of the Japanese soldiers were killed.

The Japanese military leaders who witnessed or heard about the incident from inside the cave decided to carry out a su***de explosion. Mines were installed around the entrance of the cave and detonated together with the remaining soldiers inside. This explosion caused the collapse of rocks and the destruction of Japanese military weapons and equipment inside the cave.

19/03/2026

According to testimonies from elderly residents of Ho Wan Village, the cave was believed to have been used as a temporary camp by Japanese soldiers in the past. It was reported that dozens of Japanese soldiers had stayed inside the cave during that period.
A Japanese military officer reportedly ordered approximately 40 soldiers to leave the cave in order to search for food supplies and drinking water. When those soldiers reached the nearby fields, they were surrounded and attacked by armed local forces together with British soldiers. As a result of the attack, all of the Japanese soldiers were killed.
The Japanese military leaders who witnessed or heard about the incident from inside the cave decided to carry out a su***de explosion. Mines were installed around the entrance of the cave and detonated together with the remaining soldiers inside. This explosion caused the collapse of rocks and the destruction of Japanese military weapons and equipment inside the cave.

ဟိုဝမ်ကျေးရွာရှိ အသက်ကြီးရွယ်အိုများ၏ သက်သေပြချက်များအရ ထိုလှိုဏ်ဂူကို အတိတ်ကာလတွင် ဂျပန်စစ်သားများ ယာယီတပ်စခန်းအဖြစ် အသုံးပြုခဲ့ကြသည်ဟု ယုံကြည်ရပါသည်။ ထိုကာလအတွင်း ဂျပန်စစ်သားအများအပြား လှိုဏ်ဂူအတွင်း နေထိုင်ခဲ့ကြောင်းလည်း သိရှိရပါသည်။

ဂျပန်စစ်တပ်မှ တာဝန်ရှိ အရာရှိတစ်ဦးက စားနပ်ရိက္ခာနှင့် သောက်သုံးရေ ရှာဖွေရန် စစ်သား ၄၀ ခန့်ကို လှိုဏ်ဂူမှ ထွက်ခွာရန် အမိန့်ပေးခဲ့ကြောင်း သိရပါသည်။ ထိုစစ်သားများသည် အနီးအနားရှိ လယ်ကွင်းများသို့ ရောက်ရှိသောအခါ ဒေသခံ လက်နက်ကိုင်တပ်ဖွဲ့များနှင့် အင်္ဂလိပ်တပ်များမှ ဝိုင်းရံတိုက်ခိုက်ခဲ့ကြသည်။ ထိုတိုက်ခိုက်မှုကြောင့် ဂျပန်စစ်သားအားလုံး သေဆုံးခဲ့ကြပါသည်။

လှိုဏ်ဂူအတွင်းရှိနေသော ဂျပန်စစ်တပ်ခေါင်းဆောင်များသည် ထိုဖြစ်ရပ်ကို မျက်မြင်တွေ့ရှိခဲ့ခြင်း သို့မဟုတ် သတင်းရရှိခဲ့ပြီးနောက် ကိုယ်တိုင်ပျက်စီးရေး ပေါက်ကွဲမှု ပြုလုပ်ရန် ဆုံးဖြတ်ခဲ့ကြပါသည်။ လှိုဏ်ဂူဝင်ပေါက်ပတ်လည်တွင် မိုင်းများ တပ်ဆင်ပြီး အတွင်းရှိ ကျန်ရှိသော စစ်သားများနှင့်အတူ ပေါက်ကွဲစေခဲ့ကြသည်။ ထိုပေါက်ကွဲမှုကြောင့် ကျောက်တုံးများ ပြိုလဲကျသွားပြီး လှိုဏ်ဂူအတွင်းရှိ ဂျပန်စစ်တပ်၏ လက်နက်များနှင့် စစ်ဘက်ဆိုင်ရာ ကိရိယာများ ပျက်စီးခဲ့ကြပါသည်။









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17/03/2026

According to testimonies from elderly residents of Han Oh Village, the cave was believed to have been used as a temporary camp by Japanese soldiers in the past. It was reported that dozens of Japanese soldiers had stayed inside the cave during that period.
A Japanese military officer reportedly ordered approximately 40 soldiers to leave the cave in order to search for food supplies and drinking water. When those soldiers reached the nearby fields, they were surrounded and attacked by armed local forces together with British soldiers. As a result of the attack, all of the Japanese soldiers were killed.
The Japanese military leaders who witnessed or heard about the incident from inside the cave decided to carry out a su***de explosion. Mines were installed around the entrance of the cave and detonated together with the remaining soldiers inside. This explosion caused the collapse of rocks and the destruction of Japanese military weapons and equipment inside the cave.

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16/03/2026

【活動報告】
シャン州、カレンニー(カヤー)州の州境に位置するホーウォンのパンタイク山腹の洞窟にて旧日本軍と思われる数多のご遺骨を発見しました。当時を記憶している地元古老の証言もあり、間違いないものと思われます。数から言うと大きな成果です。
今や世界中が戦争モード。此処ミャンマーも戦乱の最中ですが、私共は先の大戦に決着を付ける遺骨調査/収集活動を続けています。
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【Reports 】
Numerous remains believed to be former Japanese troops have been discovered in a cave on the side of Pantaik in Ho Wong, located on the provincial border of Shan State and Karen Ni (Kayah) provinc There are testimonies from local elders who remember those times, and it seems to be indisputable. That's a huge accomplishment in terms of numbers.
The whole world is in war mode now. Myanmar is also in the middle of war, but we are continuing our remains investigation/collecting efforts to settle the previous war.
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27/02/2026

he site is described as mountainous forest terrain believed to contain additional remains in the surrounding area. The discovery reportedly includes one well-preserved skull, suggesting the possibility of further historical remains nearby.

27/02/2026

Human remains believed to belong to Japanese soldiers have been reported in the mountainous forest area near Dolluang Village, located in Tedim Township, Chin State (Zomi Area).

According to field records, the GPS coordinates of the site are approximately N 23°20.317′ and E 093°54.672′. The remains are estimated to be from two bodies discovered in the area. The jurisdiction over the location is handled by the Zomi Development Foundation, headquartered in Tedim.

The nearest major city is Tedim, situated about 77 miles from the site and reachable by car within several hours due to mountainous terrain. Accommodation is available in Tedim, including private houses.

Local historical accounts indicate that this area served as a battlefield between Japanese and British forces during the Second World War. It is believed that at least two Japanese soldiers died at this location during the conflict.
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ချင်းပြည်နယ် တီးတိမ်မြို့နယ်ရှိ Dolluang Village အနီး တောတောင်ဒေသတွင် ဂျပန်စစ်သားများနှင့် ဆက်စပ်နိုင်သော လူအရိုးအကြွင်းအကျန်များ တွေ့ရှိရကြောင်း သိရသည်။ အဆိုပါနေရာသည် Tedim Township၊ Chin State (ဇိုမီဒေသ) အတွင်းတည်ရှိသည်။

မှတ်တမ်းအရ GPS သတ်မှတ်ချက်မှာ N 23°20.317′ နှင့် E 093°54.672′ ဖြစ်ပြီး အနည်းဆုံး လူအရိုး ၂ ဦးခန့်၏ အကြွင်းအကျန်များ ဖြစ်နိုင်ကြောင်း ခန့်မှန်းထားသည်။ ထိုနေရာအတွက် အုပ်ချုပ်မှုဆိုင်ရာတာဝန်ကို Zomi Development Foundation မှ တာဝန်ယူဆောင်ရွက်လျက်ရှိသည်။

အနီးဆုံးမြို့မှာ Tedim ဖြစ်ပြီး ခန့်မှန်း ၇၇ မိုင်ခန့်ကွာဝေးကာ တောတောင်လမ်းကြောင်းများကြောင့် ကားဖြင့် အချိန်အတော်ကြာ သွားရောက်ရမည်ဖြစ်သည်။ နေရာထိုင်ခင်းများကို တီးတိမ်မြို့တွင် (ပုဂ္ဂလိကအိမ်များအပါအဝင်) ရရှိနိုင်သည်။

ဒေသခံ သမိုင်းမှတ်တမ်းများအရ ဒုတိယကမ္ဘာစစ်အတွင်း ဂျပန်နှင့် ဗြိတိသျှတပ်များ တိုက်ပွဲဖြစ်ပွားခဲ့သည့် နေရာဖြစ်ပြီး အနည်းဆုံး ဂျပန်စစ်သား ၂ ဦး သေဆုံးခဲ့ကြောင်း ယုံကြည်ထားကြသည်။
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チン州テディム郡にある Dolluang Village 付近の山岳森林地域において、日本兵のものとみられる遺骨が発見されたと報告された。現場は Tedim Township、Chin State（ゾミ地域）に位置している。

現地記録によると、座標は北緯23度20.317分、東経93度54.672分付近であり、少なくとも2体分の遺骸と推定されている。管轄は Zomi Development Foundation が担当している。

最寄りの主要都市は Tedim で、現場から約77マイル離れており、山岳地帯のため車で数時間を要する。宿泊はテディム市内の民家などで対応可能とされている。

地域の証言によれば、同地は第二次世界大戦中に日本軍とイギリス軍が戦闘を行った場所であり、少なくとも2名の日本兵がここで戦死したと伝えられている。