9 Japanese leave for N. Korea to visit kin's graves

9 Japanese leave for N. Korea to visit kin's graves

TOKYO, Japan - Kuniyasu Ishihara (far L), one of nine Japanese leaving for North Korea to visit burial sites believed to contain the remains of their relatives who died in what is now North Korea around the end of World War II, meets the press at Tokyo's Haneda airport on June 25, 2014, before their departure.

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