Archaeologists have dug up the remains of more than 1,500 people, many of them believed to have died in an epidemic, who were buried in a 19th century mass grave that is being excavated for a city development project in Osaka in western Japan.
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Remains Dug from Japan Mass Grave Suggest Epidemic in 1800s
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