Cowra mayor permits exhumation of ex-Japanese POW's ashes

Cowra mayor permits exhumation of ex-Japanese POW's ashes

Cowra Mayor Bill West speaks in an interview in the eastern Australian city on Sept. 10, 2015. He said he understands bereaved Japanese family members' feelings and allowed the exhumation of the ashes the following day of Michiaki Wakaomi, one of the 231 Japanese prisoners of war killed in the 1944 Cowra prison break. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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