Japanese awarded honorary citizen status by S. Korea province

Shiozo Nishimori (R), former speaker of the Kochi prefectural assembly in western Japan, receives on Oct. 20, 2015, an honorary citizen award from South Jeolla Province in southwestern South Korea in the provincial city of Yeongam for his efforts to promote civil exchanges between the two countries. He has helped build a monument dedicated to Chizuko Tauchi, known as the "Japanese mother of Korean orphans," in the western Japanese city of Kochi. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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