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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.