23 Myanmar refugees arrive in Japan on resettlement program

23 Myanmar refugees arrive in Japan on resettlement program

BANGKOK, Thailand - Twenty-three refugees from Myanmar are pictured at Bangkok's international airport on Sept. 26, 2014, before their departure for Japan. The refugees who had fled to Thailand arrived in Tokyo later in the day as the last group under a Japanese pilot resettlement program begun in fiscal 2010.

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