Another resource from Dr. Kaji

Dr. Kaji and I continue to email back and forth and his latest correspondence recommended that I contact the Association of Iwo-Jima Japan, a site dedicated to returning items to the families of Japanese soldiers from World War II.  While the association must work through the Japanese Health Ministry - War Victims' Relief, they may provide a more "human-like communication".

On a side note, I'm meeting with Fumiko again next Thursday and before that, I will be meeting with Professor Guohe Zheng in the Department of Modern Languages at Ball State.  He and his class are going to assist in looking over the items and helping me with some additional translations.  Something else I'm going to work on is to try and meet with someone in the History department to review the historical significance of the items, especially the prayer flags and the differences in the Japanese language before and after World War II.  In 2000 when I was working on the project, I met with Phyllis Zimmerman, but I had so many other things going on at the time that I didn't really get to delve deep into the items. Hopefully this time around will provide some additional insights.