Ex-convict who drew attention to plight of Koreans in Japan dies

TOKYO, Japan - Kwon Hui Ro (file photo), known as Kim Hui Ro in Japan where he was born and raised, died of prostate cancer in a hospital in Busan, South Korea, on March 26, 2010. He was 81. Kwon served time in a Japanese prison for the murders of two gangsters in 1968 and whose case drew attention to the plight of Koreans in Japan.

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