广岛市周三将一名在1945年原子弹爆炸中丧生的男孩的遗骸归还给其家人。若本利明的遗骸一直保存在广岛和平纪念公园的原子弹纪念冢中。
The city of Hiroshima on Wednesday returned the remains of a boy who died in the 1945 atomic bombing to his family. The remains of Toshiaki Wakamoto had been kept at the Atomic Bomb Memorial Mound in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.
这是该市在对骨灰瓮进行全面检查中，首次归还一名在登记簿中姓名被错误记录的原子弹受害者的遗骸。若本利明91岁的妹妹三好茂子领取了遗骸，忍住了泪水。
It marks the first time the city returned the remains of an atomic bomb victim whose name had been found to be recorded incorrectly in its registry during a comprehensive inspection of urns. Shigeko Miyoshi, Wakamoto’s 91-year-old younger sister, received the remains and fought back tears.
“我与其说是高兴，不如说是悲痛难当，”三好茂子说。“要是他们早一点找到他，我母亲该有多高兴。”周三早上在纪念冢前默哀片刻后，骨灰瓮在地下室交还给了家人，该地下室保存着其他遗骸。
“I’m not so much happy as simply overwhelmed with sadness,” Miyoshi said. “If they had found him a little earlier, how happy my mother would have been.”After a moment of silence in front of the memorial mound on Wednesday morning, the urn was handed over to the family in an underground room where other remains are kept.
若本利明去世时年仅13岁，死于81年前广岛原子弹爆炸后不久。
Wakamoto was 13 when he died shortly after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima 81 years ago.
“每逢8月6日，我母亲的心都在痛，她不断喊着‘利明，利明’，看着她那样，我感到很痛苦，”三好茂子回忆已故的母亲时说道。纪念冢中安放着约7万人的遗骸。
“Every year when Aug. 6 came around, my mother’s heart ached, and she kept saying, ’Toshiaki, Toshiaki.’ It was painful for me to watch her,” Miyoshi said, remembering her late mother. The memorial mound houses the remains of approximately 70,000 people.
今年2月至3月间，该市对813个已知身份但未找到家属的骨灰瓮进行了全面检查。检查发现37人的姓名或年龄存在错误。
Between February and March this year, the city conducted a comprehensive inspection of 813 urns containing remains whose identities were known but whose families had not been located. The inspection revealed errors in the names or ages of 37 people.
装有若本利明遗骸的信封上写着“若本利明”，但部分汉字与信封的折痕重叠。因此，他的名字在登记簿中被错误地记录为“石本利明”。检查还在52个骨灰瓮中发现了死者的发束。该市已公布骨灰瓮上的姓名，并向公众征集信息，以帮助寻找家属。到目前为止，尚未收到任何询问。
An envelope containing Wakamoto’s remains was labeled “Toshiaki Wakamoto,” but some of the characters overlapped with a fold in the paper. As a result, his name was incorrectly entered in the registry as “Toshiaki Ishimoto.”The inspection also uncovered locks of hair belonging to the deceased in 52 urns. The city has released the names attached to the urns and is seeking information from the public to help locate the families. It has received no inquiries so far.
去年年底，通过检测保存的头发进行的DNA鉴定，一名遇难者的身份首次得到确认。
At the end of last year, the identity of one victim was confirmed for the first time through the DNA testing of preserved hair.