Memorial service held for victims of Thai-Burma railway construction

Memorial service held for victims of Thai-Burma railway construction

Torajiro Ohashi, head of the Japanese Association in Thailand, prays before a cenotaph at a memorial service on March 15, 2015, in Kanchanaburi, Thailand, to commemorate Allied prisoners of war and Asian laborers who were used in the Imperial Japanese Army's construction of the Thailand-Burma railway and died during World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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