Kyoto man holds returned memento of brother killed in WWII

Yukio Nakagawa holds a fountain pen used by his elder brother Kiyoshi, who died during the Battle of Okinawa in World War, on June 7, 2015, in Kyoto, Japan. The pen was discovered in a trench in Itoman, Okinawa Prefecture, in February 2013 and returned to Yukio on the day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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