Buddhist service for Japanese buried in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Masako Takizawa from Nagoya bursts into tears at a site where the ashes of her mother and sister were once buried before relocation to a different site, in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Oct. 1, 2012. The 16-member group visiting Pyongyang to hold a Buddhist memorial service at the relocation site included seven relatives of Japanese who died in what is now North Korea, amid the chaos at the end of World War II in 1945.

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