Russia has sent to Japan DVDs containing recently discovered historical records on the internment of Japanese people in Siberia in the aftermath of World War Two.
The DVDs, which arrived at the health and welfare ministry on Wednesday, contain information originally documented on 66,000 of about 700,000 cards found this summer at the Russian State Military Archive in Moscow.
The records contain the names and dates of birth of those interned and the names of camps where they were held.
The ministry says about 53,000 internees, mostly former soldiers, died as a result of forced labor and exposure to severe cold.
But the ministry has been unable to identify 21,000 of them.
An estimated 600,000 Japanese stranded in northern China and neighboring regions at the end of World War Two were forcibly taken by the then Soviet army to Siberia.
The ministry is planning to receive all the data found at the archive to establish a full picture of the internment and locate the burial sites of the victims.
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