Visit to burial site for Japanese in N. Korea

HAMHUNG, North Korea - Members of Seishinkai, a group of former Japanese residents of what is now North Korea, leave a corn field in Bupyong, a site believed to contain the remains of Japanese nationals who died around the end of World War II, outside Hamhung in the south of Hamgyong Province in eastern North Korea, on Sept. 2, 2012.

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