N. Korea researcher aims to unfold Japanese remains issue

N. Korea researcher aims to unfold Japanese remains issue

BEIJING, China - Naoki Mizuno, a Kyoto University professor, visits Pupyong in South Hamgyeong Province in eastern North Korea on Sept. 1, 2013 as part of a 10-day survey in the country to study burial sites believed to contain Japanese remains. Mizuno hopes to shed light on the issue of Japanese people who died in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula around the end of World War II and remain buried there.

  • Product Code
  • ILEA001187402
  • Registered date
  • 2013/9/19 00:00:00
  • Credit
  • Kyodo / Kyodo News Images
  • Media source
  • 2013 Kyodo News
  • Media size
  • 1620 × 2442 pixel
  • Resolution
  • 240 dpi
  • Deployment size
  • 537.97(KB)*
  • Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos
    Japan, N. Korea hold talks on 2nd day

    Japan, N. Korea hold talks on 2nd day

    PYONGYANG, North Korea - Junichi Ihara (C), director general of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, attends talks on the second of two days of discussions with North Korean officials on Oct. 29, 2014, in Pyongyang, to hear about the remains of Japanese who died around the end of World War II in what is now North Korea. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)
      Japan, N. Korea hold talks on 2nd day

      Japan, N. Korea hold talks on 2nd day

      PYONGYANG, North Korea - Kim Myong Chol, counselor of North Korea's Ministry of State Security, attends talks on the second of two days of discussions with Japanese officials on Oct. 29, 2014, in Pyongyang, on the remains of Japanese who died around the end of World War II in what is now North Korea. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)
        Japanese group visits burial site in N. Korea

        Japanese group visits burial site in N. Korea

        HAMHUNG, North Korea - A group of Japanese people whose relatives died around the end of World War II in what is now North Korea pay their respects at a burial site for Japanese people in Hamhung, North Korea, on July 1, 2014.
          Japanese arrive in N. Korea to visit burial sites of loved ones

          Japanese arrive in N. Korea to visit burial sites of loved ones

          PYONGYANG, North Korea - A group of Japanese arrives in Pyongyang, North Korea, on June 26, 2014, to visit burial sites believed to contain the remains of their loved ones, who died in what is now North Korea around the end of World War II. About 34,600 Japanese are believed to have died of hunger and disease around the end of the war in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, which was under Japanese rule from 1910 to 1945. (Kyodo)
            U.S. tourist released from N. Korea

            U.S. tourist released from N. Korea

            BEIJING, China - Merrill Newman, a U.S. tourist, arrives in Beijing from Pyongyang on Dec. 7, 2013, after having been detained in North Korea for more than a month. Newman, 85, a Korean War veteran, was pulled off a plane in Pyongyang just minutes before its departure for Beijing on Oct. 26 after taking part in a 10-day package tour.
              U.S. tourist released from N. Korea

              U.S. tourist released from N. Korea

              BEIJING, China - Merrill Newman, a U.S. tourist, arrives at Beijing's international airport from Pyongyang on Dec. 7, 2013, after having been detained in North Korea for more than a month. Newman, 85, a Korean War veteran, was pulled off a plane in Pyongyang just minutes before its departure for Beijing on Oct. 26 after taking part in a 10-day package tour.
                U.S. tourist released from N. Korea

                U.S. tourist released from N. Korea

                BEIJING, China - Merrill Newman (L), a U.S. tourist, arrives at Beijing's international airport from Pyongyang on Dec. 7, 2013, after having been detained in North Korea for more than a month. Newman, 85, a Korean War veteran, was pulled off a plane in Pyongyang just minutes before its departure for Beijing on Oct. 26 after taking part in a 10-day package tour.
                  U.S. tourist released from N. Korea

                  U.S. tourist released from N. Korea

                  BEIJING, China - Merrill Newman, a U.S. tourist, arrives in Beijing from Pyongyang on Dec. 7, 2013, after having been detained in North Korea for more than a month. Newman, 85, a Korean War veteran, was pulled off a plane in Pyongyang just minutes before its departure for Beijing on Oct. 26 after taking part in a 10-day package tour.
                    U.S. tourist released from N. Korea

                    U.S. tourist released from N. Korea

                    BEIJING, China - Merrill Newman, a U.S. tourist, arrives in Beijing from Pyongyang on Dec. 7, 2013, after having been detained in North Korea for more than a month. Newman, 85, a Korean War veteran, was pulled off a plane in Pyongyang just minutes before its departure for Beijing on Oct. 26 after taking part in a 10-day package tour.
                      U.S. tourist released from N. Korea

                      U.S. tourist released from N. Korea

                      BEIJING, China - Merrill Newman, a U.S. tourist, arrives in Beijing from Pyongyang on Dec. 7, 2013, after having been detained in North Korea for more than a month. Newman, 85, a Korean War veteran, was pulled off a plane in Pyongyang just minutes before its departure for Beijing on Oct. 26 after taking part in a 10-day package tour.