10 Chinese return home from search for Japan kin

NARITA, Japan - Ten Chinese believed to have had Japanese parents wave as they leave Narita airport outside Tokyo on March 8 to return to China. A group of 10 believed to be war-displaced Japanese spent two weeks in Japan under a Japanese government-sponsored program to search for relatives. Only one of them, Zhao Guiqin, 61, managed to find her Japanese kin. (Kyodo)

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