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Visit to N. Korea burial site

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Tetsukuni Tomonari heads for a site in Bupyong, South Hamgyong Province, North Korea, believed to contain the remains of Japanese nationals who died around the end of World War II, on Oct. 28, 2012.

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Visit to N. Korea burial site

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Tetsukuni Tomonari (L) puts his hands together in prayer at a site in Bupyong, South Hamgyong Province, North Korea, believed to contain the remains of Japanese nationals who died around the end of World War II, on Oct. 28, 2012.

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Visit to burial site for Japanese in N. Korea

HAMHUNG, North Korea - Members of Seishinkai, a group of former Japanese residents of what is now North Korea, leave a corn field in Bupyong, a site believed to contain the remains of Japanese nationals who died around the end of World War II, outside Hamhung in the south of Hamgyong Province in eastern North Korea, on Sept. 2, 2012.

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Japanese coin found at burial site in N. Korea

HAMHUNG, North Korea - Photo taken Sept. 2, 2012, shows what appears to be a Japanese coin that North Korea said was discovered in a survey in March 2011 of a site in Bupyong, believed to contain the remains of Japanese nationals who died around the end of World War II, outside Hamhung in the south of Hamgyong Province in eastern North Korea. A bag containing the coin was excavated there on Sept. 2, 2012. Characters such as "Dai-Nippon," loosely translated as great Japan, "Showa 16 nen," referring to a Japanese era and year equivalent to the year 1941, and "Issen," a small currency unit, are inscribed on the coin.

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Visit to burial site for Japanese in N. Korea

HAMHUNG, North Korea - Sadao Masaki (L), the head of Seishinkai, a group of former Japanese residents of what is now North Korea, puts his hands together in prayer facing what are believed to be the remains of Japanese nationals who died around the end of World War II, excavated at a site in Bupyong, outside Hamhung in the south of Hamgyong Province in eastern North Korea, on Sept. 2, 2012.

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Buttons found at burial site for Japanese in N. Korea

HAMHUNG, North Korea - Photo taken Sept. 2, 2012, shows buttons contained in a bag that was excavated the same day at a site in Bupyong, believed to contain the remains of Japanese nationals who died around the end of World War II, outside Hamhung in the south of Hamgyong Province in eastern North Korea.