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.

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