Funeral rites were held for two men who were killed by a train Friday night when trying to rescue a drunken man who had fallen off the platform onto the tracks at JR Shin-Okubo Station on Tokyo's Yamanote Line.
Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori and Foreign Minister Yohei Kono attended the funeral held for Lee Su Hyon, a 26-year-old South Korean student, at a Japanese language school Lee attended in Tokyo's Arakawa Ward.
After offering condolences to the victim's father, Lee Song Tae, 61, and mother, Shin Yoon Chan, Mori told reporters that he hopes young people in Japan will learn something from Lee's courageous act.