THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
August 28, 2025 at 16:52 JST
Divers retrieve a human skull from an underwater tunnel of the Chosei coal mine in Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Aug. 26. (Go Kitaueda)
UBE, Yamaguchi Prefecture—Divers have found human remains in a long-abandoned flooded coal mine here, where a ceiling collapse killed 183 miners during World War II. [Read More]
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