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Japanese repatriates return home from N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Sadao Masaki (L), head of the Seishinkai group of former Japanese residents of what is now North Korea, meets with reporters at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Sept. 6, 2012, after returning from a 10-day trip to North Korea during which he and other group members studied sites believed to contain the remains of Japanese nationals who died in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula around the end of World War II.

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Trip to burial sites for Japanese in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Sadao Masaki, the head of Seishinkai, a group of Japanese former residents of what is now North Korea, puts his hands together in prayer on Sept. 5, 2012, at a field believed to contain the remains of Japanese nationals who died in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula around the end of World War II, in a suburb of Pyongyang. The group concluded the same day a trip to North Korea during which they studied such sites and offered prayers. In the front are the remains which were said to have been found there in March 2011.

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Trip to burial sites for Japanese in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Sadao Masaki (L), the head of Seishinkai, a group of Japanese former residents of what is now North Korea, puts his hands together in prayer on Sept. 5, 2012, near a field believed to contain the remains of Japanese nationals who died in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula around the end of World War II, in a suburb of Pyongyang. The group concluded the same day a trip to North Korea during which they studied such sites and offered prayers.

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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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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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Japanese repatriates in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Sadao Masaki (R), head of Seishinkai, a group of former Japanese residents of what is now North Korea, and group member Saburo Sakaguchi join their hands in prayer facing remains excavated at a site believed to be a burial ground for Japanese in Komusan, North Korea, on Aug. 30, 2012.

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Japanese repatriates in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Sadao Masaki (C), head of Seishinkai, a group of former Japanese residents of what is now North Korea, and group member Saburo Sakaguchi (L) join their hands in prayer facing remains excavated at a site believed to be a burial ground for Japanese in Komusan, North Korea, on Aug. 30, 2012.

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Japanese repatriates in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Sadao Masaki (front), head of Seishinkai, a group of former Japanese residents of what is now North Korea, and other members of the group visit Chongjin in North Korea's northeast on Aug. 31, 2012.

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Japanese repatriates in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Sadao Masaki (3rd from R), head of Seishinkai, a group of former Japanese residents of what is now North Korea, and other members of the group tour Chongjin in North Korea's northeast on Aug. 31, 2012.

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Japanese repatriates to visit N. Korea burial sites

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Sadao Masaki, head of the Seishinkai group of former Japanese residents in Korea, talks with reporters upon arrival at Pyongyang's international airport on Aug. 28, 2012, to visit burial sites that North Korea says contain the remains of Japanese nationals who died in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula around the end of World War II. Masaki and other members of Seishinkai plan to visit several burial sites in Pyongyang and other parts of the country during a 10-day trip to North Korea.

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Japanese repatriates to visit N. Korea burial sites

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Sadao Masaki (L front) and other members of a group of former Japanese residents in Korea arrive at Pyongyang's international airport on Aug. 28, 2012, to visit burial sites that North Korea says contain the remains of Japanese nationals who died in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula around the end of World War II. The members of Seishinkai plan to visit several burial sites in Pyongyang and other parts of the country during a 10-day trip to North Korea.

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Japan remains retrieval group en route to N. Korea

BEIJING, China - Members of a Japan-based group of former Japanese residents in Korea arrive at Beijing's international airport on Aug. 27, 2012, en route to North Korea to visit the burial sites of their relatives who died in what is now North Korea. The members of the group, Seishinkai, are scheduled to arrive in Pyongyang the following day.