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9th anniversary of Kumamoto quakes

9th anniversary of Kumamoto quakes

Photo taken on April 15, 2025, shows Aso Ohashi bridge in Minamiaso, southwestern Japan, which collapsed in a landslide triggered by a pair of massive earthquakes that hit Kumamoto Prefecture in April 2016. The bridge is preserved as a reminder of the disaster.

9th anniversary of Kumamoto quakes

9th anniversary of Kumamoto quakes

Photo taken on April 15, 2025, shows Aso Ohashi bridge in Minamiaso, southwestern Japan, which collapsed in a landslide triggered by a pair of massive earthquakes that hit Kumamoto Prefecture in April 2016. The bridge is preserved as a reminder of the disaster.

Wedding dress designer Katsura dies at 94

Wedding dress designer Katsura dies at 94

Japanese wedding dress designer Yumi Katsura is pictured in Tokyo on July 15, 2016. She died on April 26, 2024, at age 94.

Kumamoto marks 5th anniversary of quakes

Kumamoto marks 5th anniversary of quakes

KUMAMOTO, Japan, April 14 Kyodo - Combined photos taken from a Kyodo News helicopter show Kumamoto Castle in Kumamoto. The top image was taken on April 15, 2016, showing damage sustained in the first of a pair of massive earthquakes that hit the southwestern Japan region the previous day. The middle photo was taken on April 3, 2018, showing restoration work and the bottom image taken on April 14, 2021, shows the castle prepared to open the interior of the castle towers to the public about two weeks later.

Akie Abe

Akie Abe

TOKYO, Japan, April 17 Kyodo - Akie Abe, the wife of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, in this photo taken Dec. 15, 2016, lays flowers at a gravestone in Nagato, Yamaguchi Prefecture, for Russian soldiers who died in the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese war.