People shovel for remains of post-WWII Japanese detainees in Russia

People shovel for remains of post-WWII Japanese detainees in Russia

Members of a group dispatched by the Japanese government and Russian workers dig the ground in a suburb of Arsenyev in the coastal region of the Russian Far East on July 21, 2015, to look 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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