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Excavation of Osaka mass grave suggests 19th-century epidemic (www.japantimes.co.jp)

Archaeologists have dug up the remains of more than 1,500 people, many of them believed to have died in an epidemic, buried in a 19th century mass grave while excavating ground as part of a city development project in Osaka.

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