BEICHUAN, China — The search by a Japanese relief team for signs of life turned into a grim recovery of bodies Sunday at a school in one of the hardest-hit areas of last week's earthquake in western China.

The team also searched for possible survivors in flattened downtown Qushan in Sichuan Province's Beichuan County, but none were found, said Takashi Koizumi, a Foreign Ministry official heading the team.

The bodies of 13 people were found at the junior high school and another at a nearby hospital, Koizumi said.