People probe remains of postwar Japanese detainees in Russia

People probe remains of postwar Japanese detainees in Russia

Members of a group dispatched by the Japanese government and Russian workers look for the remains of Japanese soldiers in a suburb of Arsenyev in the coastal region of the Russian Far East on July 21, 2015. They were seeking to recover the remains of those who died during detention by the Soviet Union after the end of World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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