Temple keeps unidentified ashes

Photo taken March 8, 2016, shows Eigo Takahashi, head of Kichijo Temple in the northeastern Japan town of Otsuchi, praying in front of 19 crates containing the ashes of unidentified victims of the March 11, 2011, disaster. "They are just like my family members as they have been staying with me for five years," Takahashi said. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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