Japan's empress turns 80

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken on Oct. 11, 2014, shows Empress Michiko (C) talking with atomic-bombing survivors at their residential facility in Nagasaki, where some 350 aged survivors of the 1945 atomic bombing of the southwestern Japan city live. The empress, on the occasion of her 80th birthday on Oct 20, expressed hope that peace can be brought about ahead of the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II next year.

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