People probe remains of post-WWII Japanese detainees in Russia

People probe remains of post-WWII Japanese detainees in Russia

Members of a group dispatched by the Japanese government and Russian workers engage in a suburb of Arsenyev in the coastal region of the Russian Far East on July 21, 2015, in the search for the remains of Japanese soldiers who died during detention by the Soviet Union following the end of World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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