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The Japanese Ghost Town Buried Deep in a Canadian Forest Archaeologists have dug up sake bottles and delicate rice bowls. BY REINA GATTUSO SEPTEMBER 23, 2019 AT FIRST, IT DIDN’T LOOK like much: a clearing about an hour’s walk into the dense forest of British Columbia’s Seymour Valley, with some rusted cans scattered among the dank leaves and moldy tree trunks. It was 2004, and Bob Muckle, an archaeologist and anthropology instructor at Capilano University, was looking for a site to teach his students excavation. When a forester told him about the household artifacts locals had found in the clearing,...

July 22, 2004 Many Servicemembers Feel Alleged Deserter Jenkins Should Be Charged By Joseph Giordono, Stars and Stripes SEOUL — Though the subject of a media frenzy in Japan and South Korea, the plight of a former U.S. Army soldier labeled a deserter after spending the past 40 years in North Korea stirs little passion or sympathy among servicemembers in the Pacific. Charles Jenkins, 64, disappeared during a patrol near the Demilitarized Zone in 1965; the U.S. military says he deserted his post. Family members in the United States say he was kidnapped and brainwashed to stay in North Korea...