Ashes of WWII Korean slave laborer returned to daughter

IIZUKA, Japan - Mum Pok Ye (front) from South Korea's Chollabukto Province, breaks into tears July 17 in front of a photo of her father, who died in Japan during World War II while toiling at a coal mine in Fukuoka Prefecture as a slave laborer. Mum received the ashes of her father, Mum Kyu Byong, at a ceremony in Iizuka in the prefecture.

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