Memorial service for wartime Chinese forced laborers

KUMAMOTO, Japan - Liu Guangyao from the Chinese Consulate General in Fukuoka reads a message from Li Tianran, the Chinese consul general, at a memorial service in Arao, Kumamoto Prefecture, on Oct. 14, 2012, held for Chinese people who died as a result of forced labor during World War II at a Japanese coal mine.

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