Abe visits father's grave

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe answers reporters' questions after visiting the grave of his father, former Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe, in Nagato, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Aug. 14, 2015. Abe is set to issue a statement later in the day to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, with Asian neighbors closely watching whether he will apologize over Japan's wartime actions. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Sample
PDF Preview

Product Code
ILEA000075221

Registered date
2015/8/14 11:22:52

Credit
Kyodo / Kyodo News Images

Media source

Media size
1152 × 1614 pixel

Resolution
240 dpi

Deployment size
226.50(KB)*

Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos

Deputy PM Aso retracts remark on Hitler's Holocaust motive

Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Taro Aso answers reporters' questions at the Finance Ministry in Tokyo on Aug. 30, 2017, on his remarks the previous day that could be seen as defending the motive behind the genocide of Jews by Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany. "Hitler, who killed millions of people, is no good even if his motive was right," he had said. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Deputy PM Aso retracts remark on Hitler's Holocaust motive

Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Taro Aso (far R) answers reporters' questions at the Finance Ministry in Tokyo on Aug. 30, 2017, on his remarks the previous day that could be seen as defending the motive behind the genocide of Jews by Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany. "Hitler, who killed millions of people, is no good even if his motive was right," he had said. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Day after Abe's Cabinet reshuffle

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe answers questions from reporters in his office in Tokyo on Aug. 4, 2017, a day after he reshuffled his Cabinet. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Myanmar marks 70th anniversary of Martyrs' Day

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi (C) attends a ceremony at the Martyrs' Mausoleum in Yangon on July 19, 2017, to observe the 70th anniversary of Martyrs' Day, marking the assassination of independence heroes including her father, Gen. Aung San. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Myanmar marks 70th anniversary of Martyrs' Day

Reconstruction minister lashes out over remaining Fukushima evacuees

Masahiro Imamura (C), Japan's disaster reconstruction minister, meets reporters at his agency in Tokyo on April 4, 2017, to apologize for his behavior at a press conference earlier in the day, in which he yelled "Get out of here!" at a reporter who asked him questions about displaced people yet to return to areas of Fukushima Prefecture deemed safe to live in. Imamura said he had "become emotional." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

2 Cabinet ministers visit war-linked Yasukuni Shrine during festival

Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks with reporters after offering prayers at the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Oct. 18, 2015. Two Cabinet ministers visited the Shinto shrine during its annual autumn festival a day after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent an offering without attending out of consideration for Japan's Asian neighbors. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

2 Cabinet ministers visit war-linked Yasukuni Shrine during festival

Justice Minister Mitsuhide Iwaki speaks with reporters after offering prayers at the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Oct. 18, 2015. Two Cabinet ministers visited the Shinto shrine during its annual autumn festival a day after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent an offering without attending out of consideration for Japan's Asian neighbors. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

North Koreans celebrate start of new time zone

North Koreans clap their hands in Pyongyang on Aug. 15, 2015, as their own "Pyongyang Time" started the same day, the 70th anniversary of Korea's liberation from Japanese rule at the end of World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Focus on apology as Abe set to issue WWII anniv. statement

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe enters his office in Tokyo on Aug. 14, 2015, prior to an extraordinary Cabinet meeting in which his statement to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War will be approved. The statement will be issued later in the day, with Asian neighbors closely watching whether he will apologize over Japan's wartime actions. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo