REST IN PEACE

Keiko Nakamura， 73 and a member of a Japanese war orphansdelegation， kneels down at a cemetery for adoptive Chinese parents in Fangzheng County， northeast Chinas Heilongjiang Province， on July 13 during a visit to China.

More than 4，000 Japanese children were abandoned by their birth parents during the retreat at the end of World War II in 1945. These orphans were taken in and raised by residents in northeast China， which Japan illegally occupied for over a decade. Most of them relocated to Japan after the two neighbors normalized relations in 1972.