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Sculpture to commemorate 2 train heroes set near station

TOKYO, Japan - A sculpture is unveiled near JR Shin-Okubo Station in Tokyo on March 16 to commemorate a South Korean student and a Japanese photographer killed by a rush-hour train in January while trying to save a drunken man from the tracks. The granite sculpture, which depicts a gate, was created by Mitsuzo Yamada, a 55-year-old artist in Sakura, Chiba Prefecture, to honor the self-sacrifice of South Korean student Lee Su Hyon, 26, and Shiro Sekine, a 47-year-old photographer from Yokohama.