Japanese family who tended Briton's grave for 140 years finally learn his identity

The Murai family receive a letter of thanks from the British ambassador after mystery of ex-pat's remains is solved More than 140 years after their ancestors started tending the grave of a British man who died in obscurity, a Japanese family has finally learned his identity - and received an official message of thanks from the British government. For much of that period, members of the Murai family, who live in Ishikawa prefecture on the Japan Sea coast, thought they were maintaining the last re...