Fumio Goto never imagined that he would end up helping to build schools in Cambodia when he first accepted refugees from the country in 1981.
Goto, a 71-year-old priest at Catholic Kichijoji Church in the city of Musashino, western Tokyo, has accepted 16 refugees -- 10 boys, four girls and an elderly couple -- at Cambodian House, which is set up within his church.
In 1994, Goto visited Cambodia for the first time, accompanying one of the refugees -- Meas Bun Ra -- on his search for his parents.
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