Cemetery construction for returnees from Sakhalin begins in Sapporo

Cemetery construction for returnees from Sakhalin begins in Sapporo

Yuriko Uto (L) and Kikue Uematsu, post-World War II Japanese returnees from the Russian Far East island of Sakhalin, look on as construction of a public graveyard for permanent returnees like them begins at a cemetery in Sapporo in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on Nov. 17, 2015. Many Japanese expatriates could not repatriate immediately after the end of the war in 1945 and instead returned to Japan after the 1990s, but they cannot afford individual burial plots due to financial constraints, according to a nonprofit support group for the returnees. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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