Trip to burial sites for Japanese in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Sadao Masaki (L), the head of Seishinkai, a group of Japanese former residents of what is now North Korea, puts his hands together in prayer on Sept. 5, 2012, near a field believed to contain the remains of Japanese nationals who died in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula around the end of World War II, in a suburb of Pyongyang. The group concluded the same day a trip to North Korea during which they studied such sites and offered prayers.

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