Visit to N. Korea burial site

CHONGJIN, North Korea - Yukihiro Kimura (front) and his elder brother Shigeru offer prayers on Oct. 24, 2012, at a site in Komusan, north of Chongjin in northeastern North Korea, which is believed to contain the remains of about 2,000 Japanese soldiers and security personnel who died at a prison camp around the end of World War II. The two were among four Japanese nationals who visited the site to pray for the souls of relatives who died in what is now North Korea.

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