As a person in charge of the group to dispose corpses, I supervised corpse disposals in the ruins of fire. The first job was to dispose corpses on trunk roads. And those in rivers, in ditches, in trenches with puddle and any places with water followed.
We heaped up pillars of collapsed houses in the center of roads. On top of the pillars we piled up corpses and cremated. After finishing cremating, disposal of corpses under collapsed houses followed. The next was disposal of corpses at a prison on a hill of the epicenter. It took about 3 days to dispose corpses of prisoners and the officials of the prison. Then the corpses of teachers and students at schools. These were so miserable.
The last job was investigations in mountains. There were pretty number of corpses in the direction of Inasa-yama (mountain). Most corpses lay on a narrow path connecting the mountain behind Nagasaki Medical University with Suwa Shrine.
We confirmed 6,800 corpses. Most of them could not be identified by names. Therefore their remains are not adopted into their relatives yet.