Body of Japanese journalist killed in Syria returns home

Body of Japanese journalist killed in Syria returns home

NARITA, Japan - Photo shows a casket containing the body of Japanese journalist Mika Yamamoto at Narita airport near Tokyo on Aug. 25, 2012, after it arrived at the airport from Istanbul. Yamamoto was shot dead on Aug. 20 in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo while covering the civil war.

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