Man reads pen pal's letter from Russian-held island

Man reads pen pal's letter from Russian-held island

KUSHIRO, Japan - Tadaaki Iwasaki, a former resident of Etorofu, one of the four Russian-held islands off Hokkaido, northern Japan, reads a letter in this file photo taken on Sept. 20, 2014, from his Russian pen pal Galina Burisovna Danilinichuk whom he met around 10 years earlier during her visa-free visit to Sapporo. She attends the Iwasaki family's grave on the island.

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