Ashes of journalists slain in Iraq return to Japan hometown

Ashes of journalists slain in Iraq return to Japan hometown

UBE, Japan - Yukiko Hashida (R), wife of Shinsuke Hashida, and Yoko Ogawa, mother of Kotaro Ogawa, speaks to reporters at Ube Airport in Yamaguchi Prefecture on June 9 after arriving there with the ashes of Hashida and Ogawa. Freelance journalist Hashida and his nephew Ogawa were killed in Iraq in May.

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