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Photos of WWII Japanese soldiers

Photo taken on July 28, 2024, at Misaka shrine in the western Japan city of Yamaguchi. During World War II, photos of Japanese soldiers were sent to the shrine by family members as it was believed that doing so would help the photographed person dodge bullets and survive. The shrine has been trying to return the photos to the families since the end of the war but about 14,000 photos still remain.

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Photos of WWII Japanese soldiers

Photo taken on July 31, 2024, at Misaka shrine in the western Japan city of Yamaguchi shows photos of Japanese soldiers who went to World War II. Those photos were sent to the shrine during the war by family members as it was believed that doing so would help the photographed person dodge bullets and survive. The shrine has been trying to return the photos to the families since the end of the war but about 14,000 photos still remain.

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Photos of WWII Japanese soldiers

Photo taken on July 31, 2024, at Misaka shrine in the western Japan city of Yamaguchi shows photos of Japanese soldiers who went to World War II. Those photos were sent to the shrine during the war by family members as it was believed that doing so would help the photographed person dodge bullets and survive. The shrine has been trying to return the photos to the families since the end of the war but about 14,000 photos still remain.

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Santa Claus House made of cookies unveiled in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - Santa Clause House, made of some 14,000 Bisco cookies of Ezaki Glico Co., is unveiled in the lobby of Hotel New Otani Osaka in western Japan on Dec. 6, 2014.

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Nikkei sinks to below 14,000

TOKYO, Japan - An electronic signboard at a Tokyo office of money broker Gaitame.com Co. shows the Nikkei Stock Average trading below the 14,000 line on the morning of May 30, 2013. The key stock index ended the morning session down 393.54 points, or 2.75 percent, from the previous day at 13,932.92.

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Nikkei ends above 14,000

TOKYO, Japan - An electronic signboard in central Tokyo's Yaesu district shows Japan's key Nikkei Stock Average above 14,000, up more than 500 points from May 2, the preceding business day, on the afternoon of May 7, 2013. The index finished at 14,180.24, its highest close since June 18, 2008, as sentiment was buoyed following robust U.S. jobs data for April and the yen's weak tone against the U.S. dollar.

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Electronics mulls shedding up to 14,000 jobs

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on May 26, 2012, shows a building housing the head office of Renesas Electronics Corp. in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward. The struggling major semiconductor maker is reportedly considering slashing up to around 14,000 jobs, or around 30 percent of its entire workforce, while it is in talks to sell a factory in Japan to a Taiwanese company.

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Heart Mountain wartime internment museum

HEART MOUNTAIN, United States - Norman Mineta (far L), a former U.S. secretary of transportation, looks on as his fellow former internees cut a barbed wire ''ribbon'' during an opening ceremony for the Interpretive Learning Center in Heart Mountain, Wyoming, on Aug. 20, 2011. The facility tells the history of more than 14,000 Japanese-Americans who were forced to live at the camp during World War II.

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New S. Korea-Japan-Russia cargo-passenger liner service launched

YONAGO, Japan - The 14,000-ton ferry Eastern Dream of South Korea enters Sakai port in Sakaiminato, Tottori Prefecture, on June 30, inaugurating a new cargo-passenger shipping route linking Sakaiminato with South Korea's Donghae and Russia's Vladivostok.

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Shipments of square watermelons begin in Kagawa Pref.

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Workers at an agricultural cooperative in Zentsuji, Kagawa Prefecture, check square-shaped watermelons on June 18 before shipment. The cooperative will ship about 600 of the watermelons, mainly for use in display, with a price tag ranging from 13,000 to 14,000 yen.

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Kanagawa taxis go nonsmoking

YOKOHAMA, Japan - About 14,000 taxis belonging to two major associations in Kanagawa Prefecture went nonsmoking July 11, the first time taxis have done so in the Tokyo metropolitan area. A board in front of Yokohama Station informs people of taxis going nonsmoking from that day.

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German wholesaler Metro opens 1st Japan outlet

CHIBA, Japan - German wholesaler Metro AG opens its first Japanese outlet in the Mihama area of Chiba Prefecture on Dec. 4 as the first foreign specialized wholesaler to enter the Japanese market. The outlet will stock 14,000 commodities, including food, beverages and kitchen-related goods.

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Tokyo stocks sink in year's final session

TOKYO, Japan - Masaaki Tsuchida, president of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, rings the bell at the exchange in Tokyo on Dec. 29 to signal the end of this year's trading. The TSE observed a depressing final session of the year, with the Nikkei Stock Average tumbling to close far below the crucial 14,000 mark.

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U.S. veterans offer silent prayer

ITOMAN, Japan - U.S. veterans offer a silent prayer near the Cornerstone of Peace at the Peace Memorial Park in Itoman, Okinawa, on June 23 as they observe the 55th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Okinawa between U.S. and Japanese forces in 1945. The United States lost 14,000 soldiers in the Battle of Okinawa.

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Torrential rain hits Niigata

Torrential rains in northern Niigata Prefecture flood more than 14,000 homes and cut the electricity in some 29,000 homes in the city of Niigata on Aug. 4. Hourly rainfall measured 97 millimeters, the heaviest since the Meteorological Agency started compiling data in 1886. The photo taken Wednesday morning shows the farming village of Sasakami sitting under water after a river overflowed and broke a dike the previous day.