Civic groups of S. Korea, N. Korea, Japan to cooperate in repatriating remains of Koreans from Japan
  • 6 years ago
Civic groups from South Korea, North Korea and Japan.... are forming a joint body to bring back from Japan... the remains of Koreans forced to work under Japan's colonial rule in the early 19-hundreds.
Holding a press conference in Tokyo on Monday with North Korean and Japanese civic groups,.... South Korean members of Korean Council for Reconciliation and Cooperation said... the joint body will work to excavate the remains of Koreans buried in Japan's Yamaguchi Prefecture and on Okinawa Island.
It will also repatriate... two sets of North Koreans' remains.
It's believed there are remains of nearly three-thousand Koreans in Japan.
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