
This April 7, 2016 picture shows Kazuhiro Sakaue, senior researcher of anthropology at National Museum of Nature and Science, observing the restored skull believed to be belonged to an 18th-century Italian missionary, Giovanni Battista Sidotti at his laboratory in Tsukuba, Ibaraki prefecture. Researchers using DNA analysis have confirmed that remains unearthed from a Tokyo construction site almost certainly belong to Sidotti who stole ashore on a small Japanese island in 1708, a country then hostile to his Christian creed. / AFP PHOTO / HARUMI OZAWA / TO GO WITH AFP STORY: Japan-Italy-religion-history, FOCUS by Harumi OzawaHARUMI OZAWA/AFP/Getty Images


