Racist stickers found along pilgrimage trail

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Photo taken April 10, 2014, in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, shows a rest station along the 88-temple pilgrimage course known as Shikoku Henro, on Shikoku Island, western Japan, where an anti-Korean sticker has been posted. The messages found there and other rest stations call on hikers to "Protect our precious pilgrimage route from Korean hands," the stations' managers said.

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