Abstract
The identification of the dead body is very important for forensic medicine, which requires extensive use of the technique of physical anthropology. Unfortunately, however, physical anthropologists have not developed adequate facilities for identifi-cation in Japan, although we expect to in the future. In considering the problem seriously physical anthropologists will make great contributions to forensic medicine and to physical anthropology itself.
In the article we summarized in brief the present state of body identification in the United States and emphasized that it is not an impossible task, though it is a very difficult one., We hope and believe that more intensive studies will be made and that the methods of identification will be brought to perfection.
