Visit to N. Korea burial site

CHONGJIN, North Korea - Photo taken June 16, 2013, shows offering left by Sampei Asano -- incense sticks and a sheet of paper bearing the name of his elder brother -- at a farm in Komusan, north of Chongjin in northeastern North Korea, a site believed to contain the remains of Japanese soldiers and civilians who lost their lives in what is now North Korea around the end of World War II. Asano's elder brother Nishihide is thought to have died from malnutrition at a prison camp in Komusan.

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