Student takes up war orphans' plight at U.N. rights panel

GENEVA, Switzerland - Yumi Nakai (L), a fourth-year law student at Ryukoku University, is pictured in Geneva on Aug. 12 after asking the U.N. Human Rights Commission to look into Japan's policy of deporting Chinese relatives of war-displaced Japanese nationals that are not related by blood. She said the practice violates human rights. At right is Etsuro Totsuka, a professor at the university.

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