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Japanese group head to Senkaku sea area

ISHIGAKI, Japan - Fishing boats carrying a group of Japanese leave Ishigaki Island in Okinawa Prefecture on Aug. 18, 2012, for the sea area near the Japan-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea also claimed by China. The group including some Japanese lawmakers and local politicians headed to the sea area to commemorate the victims of U.S. attacks on vessels sailing around the area in 1945. The Japanese government did not allow them to land on the islands.

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Propeller from kamikaze fighter in Russia

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Photo taken on Aug. 10, 2011, shows a propeller blade from a fighter aircraft of the now-defunct Japanese military exhibited at the Pacific Fleet Museum in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East. The aircraft was shot down during an attempted kamikaze attack on a Soviet oil tanker off Vladivostok port on Aug. 18, 1945, three days after Japan's surrender in World War II.

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Kamikaze attack in Russia after Japan's surrender in WWII

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Margarita Afanasieva in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East on Aug. 11, 2011, talks about a story she heard from her father regarding a Japanese fighter aircraft that was shot down during an attempted kamikaze attack on a Soviet oil tanker off Vladivostok port on Aug. 18, 1945, three days after Japan's surrender in World War II. Her father was an engineer on the tanker.

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S. Korea's KBS records amateur singing contest in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - South Korea's Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) records an amateur singing contest at the Hibiya Public Hall in Tokyo on Aug. 15 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the end of Japan's 1910-1945 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula and the S. Korea-Japan friendship year. S. Korean and Japanese company employees, housewives and students participated in the contest, which will be aired in S. Korea on Sept. 18.

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Nagasaki A-bomb museum visitors top 5 mil.

NAGASAKI, Japan - Toshimitsu Makino (L), a Tokyo company executive, on May 18 becomes the 5-millionth visitor to the Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, since its refurbishment in 1996. Makino received a bronze replica of the ''Nagasaki Bell,'' which survived the Aug. 9, 1945 atomic bombing of the city, and other memorial goods from museum head Toshitaka Sakata (R).

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Enola Gay exhibition winds up

Visitors to the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington have a final look at the cockpit of Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber that dropped the world's first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, on Aug. 6, 1945. The controversial exhibition closed May 18 with little notice or fanfare after a three-year run. ==Kyodo

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WWII veteran recalls fighting Russian invasion of northern islands

Hidetaka Oda recalls during an interview in Higashine, Yamagata Prefecture, northern Japan, on Dec. 29, 2014, his involvement in a battle when Soviet troops began invading the Kuril Islands in the Far East on Aug. 18, 1945, three days after Japan's surrender in World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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S. Korea's KBS records amateur singing contest in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - South Korea's Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) records an amateur singing contest at the Hibiya Public Hall in Tokyo on Aug. 15 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the end of Japan's 1910-1945 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula and the S. Korea-Japan friendship year. S. Korean and Japanese company employees, housewives and students participated in the contest, which will be aired in S. Korea on Sept. 18. (Kyodo)

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S. Korea's KBS records amateur singing contest in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - South Korea's Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) records an amateur singing contest at the Hibiya Public Hall in Tokyo on Aug. 15 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the end of Japan's 1910-1945 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula and the S. Korea-Japan friendship year. S. Korean and Japanese company employees, housewives and students participated in the contest, which will be aired in S. Korea on Sept. 18. (Kyodo)

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Kamikaze attack in Russia after Japan's surrender in WWII

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Margarita Afanasieva in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East on Aug. 11, 2011, talks about a story she heard from her father regarding a Japanese fighter aircraft that was shot down during an attempted kamikaze attack on a Soviet oil tanker off Vladivostok port on Aug. 18, 1945, three days after Japan's surrender in World War II. Her father was an engineer on the tanker. (Kyodo)

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Propeller from kamikaze fighter in Russia

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Photo taken on Aug. 10, 2011, shows a propeller blade from a fighter aircraft of the now-defunct Japanese military exhibited at the Pacific Fleet Museum in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East. The aircraft was shot down during an attempted kamikaze attack on a Soviet oil tanker off Vladivostok port on Aug. 18, 1945, three days after Japan's surrender in World War II. (Kyodo)

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Unearthed chart shows Hiroshima bomb dropped later

HIROSHIMA, Japan - An atmospheric pressure graph recorded at a former Hiroshima weather station about 3.6 kilometers south of the hypocenter of the World War II atomic bombing of the city shows a blast at 8:18 a.m. on Aug. 6, 1945. The chart found July 29 contradicts records from the U.S. bomber Enola Gay that the bomb was dropped at 8:15 a.m. and exploded about 43 seconds later. (Kyodo)

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Nagasaki A-bomb museum visitors top 5 mil.

NAGASAKI, Japan - Toshimitsu Makino (L), a Tokyo company executive, on May 18 becomes the 5-millionth visitor to the Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, since its refurbishment in 1996. Makino received a bronze replica of the ''Nagasaki Bell,'' which survived the Aug. 9, 1945 atomic bombing of the city, and other memorial goods from museum head Toshitaka Sakata (R).