ILEA000071121: 83-year-old clocksmith still going strong at folk museum

Head of war museum in Okinawa

Photo taken May 24, 2018, shows Chokei Futenma, head of the Himeyuri peace memorial museum in Itoman, Okinawa Prefecture. Futenma is the first director born after World War II in charge of the museum dedicated to hand down the stories of Himeyuri Gakutotai, a nursing unit consisting of female students and teachers mobilized during the war. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

3 cyclists pose after completing Seoul-Tokyo journey

Three cyclists, including 79-year-old Takeshi Yamaguchi (L) of Japan, pose in front of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building after completing the Seoul-Tokyo trek on Nov. 1, 2015. Yamaguchi was the oldest among the 50 Japanese and South Korean citizen cyclists who took part in the journey tracing the path of Joseon missions to Japan dispatched by the Joseon Dynasty. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Novelist donates manuscript of bestseller to hometown museum

The original handwritten manuscript of popular Japanese writer Lily Franky's autobiographical novel "Tokyo Tower" is exhibited on Oct. 24, 2015, at the Kitakyushu Literature Museum in Kitakyushu, the author's hometown in southwestern Japan's Fukuoka Prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Author donates manuscript of bestseller to hometown museum

Popular Japanese novelist Lily Franky talks about his autobiographical novel "Tokyo Tower" during a talk show on Oct. 24, 2015, at the Kitakyushu Literature Museum in Kitakyushu, his hometown in southwestern Japan's Fukuoka Prefecture. Franky donated the bestseller's handwritten original to the museum. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Men in armor walk from Tokyo to shrine in Nikko

Some 100 people, including men in armored outfits of feudal samurai, leave the plaza in front of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Oct. 24, 2015, to set off for a 150-km walk to the Nikko Toshogu Shinto shrine in Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture, dedicated to Tokugawa Ieyasu, founder of the Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1867). The year 2015 marks the 400th anniversary of Ieyasu's death. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Traditional play performed on Kagoshima Pref. island

Men wearing paper masks dance during "Shodon Shibaya," a traditional play peculiar to Kakeroma Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 21, 2015. The play has been designated as an important intangible folk cultural property of Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Medical museum in Okayama Pref. gaining popularity

Takuya Moriya, a professor at Kawasaki Medical School and deputy director of the university's Medical Museum in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, western Japan, shows on Sept. 30, 2015, a huge model of a stomach exhibited at the museum, which attracts some 8,000 visitors a year. The model displays cancer and other stomach diseases and all were made by museum staff. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Visitors walk by wall display at Nanjing Massacre Museum

Visitors to the Nanjing Massacre Museum in Nanjing in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu take photos in front of a wall at the museum on Oct. 5, 2015. The number of victims in the 1937-38 mass killings by invading Japanese troops in Nanjing before World War II is put at 300,000 by the museum. UNESCO announced on Oct. 10 that it has added China's "Documents of the Nanjing Massacre" to the Memory of the World Register. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Visitors to Nanjing Massacre Museum take photos

Visitors to the Nanjing Massacre Museum in Nanjing in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu take photos in front of a wall at the museum on Oct. 5, 2015. The number of victims in the 1937-38 mass killings by invading Japanese troops in Nanjing before World War II is put at 300,000 by the museum. UNESCO announced on Oct. 10 that it has added China's "Documents of the Nanjing Massacre" to the Memory of the World Register. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Chinese museum demands return of stones from Japanese tower

Photo taken on Oct. 5, 2015, shows one of three cornerstones used for the Peace Tower in the city of Miyazaki, southern Japan. A private anti-Japanese war museum in Nanjing, China, has asked the Miyazaki prefectural government to return the cornerstones to the country. The tower was built with stones collected in Japan and abroad in 1940 during the second Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

83-year-old clocksmith still going strong at folk museum

Clocksmith Jiro Masuya, 83, stands in front of the clock tower of the Yamagata folk museum, a national important cultural property, on June 7, 2015, in Yamagata. Masuya has been in charge of maintaining the clock tower. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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