2 war-displaced Japanese Filipinos meet with cousins

NAHA, Japan - Rodolfo Seiichi Adaniya (R) and his sister Yoshiko Trinidad (C) meet their Japanese relatives for the first time at Naha airport in Okinawa Prefecture on July 9. The father of the two Filipinos migrated to the Philippines from Okinawa before the war and married a Filipino woman, but went missing during World War II. (Kyodo)

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