Descendant of Briton killed in 1862 incident visits cemetery

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Michael Wace (L), great-grandson of the eldest sister of Charles Richardson, a Briton who was killed by a Satsuma-han samurai in the 1862 "Namamugi Incident," offers flowers with his wife (R) at the grave of Richardson at the Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on Sept. 6, 2012.

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