in Japan who had been forcibly taken to Japan and have been listed as missing since the second World War. The Red Cross authorities said it succeeded in ferreting out several Koreans listed as missing during the war period and confirmed that some of them are still alive and some have already died. The survey on the remaining Koreans living in Japan was conducted by the Red Cross society at the North Korean requests for the whereabouts of the 314 Koreans still listed as missing.