Remains of Japanese POW in Siberia handed over to family

Remains of Japanese POW in Siberia handed over to family

UTSUNOMIYA, Japan - Keiko Fujita, 69, receives the remains of her father, Kenichi Mimura, a former Japanese serviceman who died in a Siberian labor camp a year after the end of World War II, from a Health and Welfare Ministry official at her home in Utsunomiya on Nov. 29. The remains were identified in late October by doctors at Tokyo's Teikyo University through a DNA test.

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