Visit to burial site for Japanese in N. Korea

HAMHUNG, North Korea - Sadao Masaki (L), the head of Seishinkai, a group of former Japanese residents of what is now North Korea, puts his hands together in prayer facing what are believed to be the remains of Japanese nationals who died around the end of World War II, excavated at a site in Bupyong, outside Hamhung in the south of Hamgyong Province in eastern North Korea, on Sept. 2, 2012.

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