Response from 厚勞省

Posted by Eyedoc

A friend in Japan has finally reached the 厚勞省 officer on our behalf, and this is what he has found:
我們的在日朋友終於聯絡到厚生労働省一名負責戰歿者事務的官員,据友人告知:

"...the Koro-sho officer explains to me that she cannot help us anymore because she has no further information on Shinsei-maru and the news in the 1955 Kanagawa Shimbun is based on hearsay. Plus no official documents [about the ship] exist in Koro-sho. So they have no intention of investigating this matter further..."
"...此厚勞省官員解釋說她己無法可助,因為她沒有任何有關神靖丸的資料.而1955年的神奈川新聞報導只是傳聞.厚勞省本身並無官方文件.因此他們不會對神靖丸事件再作任何調查..."

In other words, if Kosei-rodo Sho厚生労働省 has no files on Shinsei Maru's recovery, then the event does not exist. Even though common sense tells us that it would be totally absurd for a newspaper to invent such a piece of news.
即在厚生労働省無存檔的情況下,神靖丸之引揚報導並不算數.但依常理來說,報社不會空穴來風,無端發佈不實的新聞.

This is not right.
這是不對的.
これは不公平である.