Civil group collecting remains of Japanese WWII dead in Myanmar

Civil group collecting remains of Japanese WWII dead in Myanmar

Katsuyuki Imoto (R) listens to an elderly ethnic-minority man near Tedium in western Myanmar in this photo taken on Dec. 3, 2015. Imoto, who has engaged in the transfer of farming skills to minority people in Myanmar, leads activities by a Japanese civilian group to collect and bring back to Japan the remains of Japanese soldiers who died in the Southeast Asian nation during World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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