Overview
- Officials will select sample strands in the presence of relatives from an urn listed under the name "Kajiyama Michiko" in the Peace Memorial Park ossuary.
- A May inquiry by a man in Fuchu led the city to find hair in the urn as the family questioned whether the registered name matched their missing relative.
- Kanagawa Dental University will analyze about 20 hairs for DNA profiling, with a turnaround estimate of roughly two weeks.
- The city had avoided DNA work on cremated bones due to low recovery rates, making preserved hair the practical source for testing.
- The ossuary holds about 70,000 sets of remains, including 812 with known names but no located relatives, and roughly 10 urns are believed to contain hair, with further tests considered if DNA can be extracted.