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Piano that survived atomic bombing

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Japanese pianist Mami Hagiwara is pictured with a piano that survived the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima in Mazda Stadium in the western Japan city on Aug. 6, 2011, the 66th anniversary of the attack. To mark the anniversary, a concert was held before a night game between the Hiroshima Carp and the Yomiuri Giants at the stadium, with Hagiwara, a 24-year-old Hiroshima native who won first prize in the piano division of the Geneva International Music Competition in 2010, playing the piano.

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Hiroshima marks 66th anniv. of atomic bombing

HIROSHIMA, Japan - People pray in front of the cenotaph in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima for the victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japan city at 6:24 a.m. on Aug. 6, 2011, the 66th anniversary of the attack.

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Japan film on Hiroshima A-bomb 'Face of Jizo' premieres in U.S.

BOSTON, United States - A Japanese film depicting the struggles of a Japanese woman, who survives the Aug. 6, 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, premiered in the United States on April 21 at a Massachusetts Institute of Technology theater as part of the Global Hibakusha (A-bomb survivors) Film Festival being held in Boston on April 14-24. Photo shows A-bomb survivors responding to questions from the film audience after the show.

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Court orders gov't to compensate Koreans over 1945 ship loss

KYOTO, Japan - Survivors and relatives of those who died in an explosion on the South Korean transport vessel Ukishimamaru on Aug. 24, 1945 speak at a press conference in Kyoto on Aug. 23. after the Kyoto District Court ordered the Japanese government to pay 45 million yen in compensation to 15 South Koreans over the explosion. The 4,730-ton ship carrying 524 Koreans on their way home from Japan exploded and capsized when the ship was nearing entry to Maizuru port in Kyoto Prefecture.

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Japan film on Hiroshima A-bomb 'Face of Jizo' premieres in U.S.

BOSTON, United States - A Japanese film depicting the struggles of a Japanese woman, who survives the Aug. 6, 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, premiered in the United States on April 21 at a Massachusetts Institute of Technology theater as part of the Global Hibakusha (A-bomb survivors) Film Festival being held in Boston on April 14-24. Photo shows A-bomb survivors responding to questions from the film audience after the show. (Kyodo)

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Rescue worker points to site of 1945 sinking of naval transport ship

Akio Tosa points to the site of the 1945 sinking of a Japanese naval transport ship in Maizuru, Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, on Aug. 2, 2015. He was involved in rescue work following the accident in which the Ukishima Maru carrying Korean laborers and their families from Japan to the Korean port of Busan following the end of World War II apparently hit a U.S. naval mine in Maizuru Bay and sank on Aug. 24, 1945, killing some 550 people. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rescue worker recalls 1945 sinking of naval transport ship

Akio Tosa visits a monument dedicated to victims in the 1945 sinking of a Japanese naval transport ship in Maizuru, Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, on Aug. 2, 2015. He was involved in rescue work following the accident in which the Ukishima Maru carrying Korean laborers and their families from Japan to the Korean port of Busan following the end of World War II apparently hit a U.S. naval mine in Maizuru Bay and sank on Aug. 24, 1945, killing some 550 people. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Younger brother of Bockscar pilot speaks in interview

William Sweeney, younger brother of the late Charles Sweeney who flew the Bockscar bomber that dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, western Japan, on Aug. 9, 1945, speaks in an interview at their alma mater high school in Quincy, Massachusetts, on May 24, 2015. William and other relatives of Sweeney said the pilot had asked Pope John XXIII privately in the early 1960s to offer support to Nagasaki. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Daughter of Bockscar A-bomb pilot speaks in interview

Marilyn Howe, second daughter of the late Charles Sweeney who flew the Bockscar bomber that dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, western Japan, on Aug. 9, 1945, speaks in an interview in Quincy, Massachusetts, on May 24, 2015. Howe and other relatives of Sweeney said he had asked Pope John XXIII privately in the early 1960s to offer support to Nagasaki. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Original audio of Emperor Showa's surrender speech made public

Photo taken July 24, 2015, at the Imperial Household Agency in Tokyo shows the vinyl master records of Emperor Hirohito's speech announcing Japan's surrender in World War II to the Allied Forces on Aug. 15, 1945. The agency made available to the public for the first time the original audio from them on Aug. 1 to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the war. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Piano that survived atomic bombing

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Japanese pianist Mami Hagiwara is pictured with a piano that survived the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima in Mazda Stadium in the western Japan city on Aug. 6, 2011, the 66th anniversary of the attack. To mark the anniversary, a concert was held before a night game between the Hiroshima Carp and the Yomiuri Giants at the stadium, with Hagiwara, a 24-year-old Hiroshima native who won first prize in the piano division of the Geneva International Music Competition in 2010, playing the piano. (Kyodo)

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Hiroshima marks 66th anniv. of atomic bombing

HIROSHIMA, Japan - People pray in front of the cenotaph in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima for the victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japan city at 6:24 a.m. on Aug. 6, 2011, the 66th anniversary of the attack. (Kyodo)