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Emperor visits Okinawa museum for victims of Tsushima-Maru incident

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako (C) and their daughter, Princess Aiko, visit the Tsushima-Maru Memorial Museum in Naha in the southern Japan prefecture of Okinawa on June 5, 2025. The museum opened in 2004 in memory of the victims of the August 1944 sinking of the Tsushima-maru civilian ship by a U.S. submarine during World War II, leaving around 1,500 people, many of them children, dead. (Pool photo)

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Emperor visits Okinawa museum for victims of Tsushima-Maru incident

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako (C) and their daughter, Princess Aiko, visit the Tsushima-Maru Memorial Museum in Naha in the southern Japan prefecture of Okinawa on June 5, 2025. The museum opened in 2004 in memory of the victims of the August 1944 sinking of the Tsushima-maru civilian ship by a U.S. submarine during World War II, leaving around 1,500 people, many of them children, dead. (Pool photo)

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Emperor visits Okinawa museum for victims of Tsushima-Maru incident

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako (C) and their daughter, Princess Aiko, visit the Tsushima-Maru Memorial Museum in Naha in the southern Japan prefecture of Okinawa on June 5, 2025. The museum opened in 2004 in memory of the victims of the August 1944 sinking of the Tsushima-maru civilian ship by a U.S. submarine during World War II, leaving around 1,500 people, many of them children, dead. (Pool photo)

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Bernard Kerik

New York, NY - August 30, 2004 -- Bernard Kerik, former Police Commissioner, New York, New York, speaks in support of United States President George W. Bush at the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City..Photo by Ron Sachs / CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM .(RESTRICTION: No New York Metro or other Newspapers within a 75 mile radius of New York City)

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Bernard Kerik

New York, NY - August 30, 2004 -- Bernard Kerik, former Police Commissioner, New York, New York, speaks in support of United States President George W. Bush at the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City..Photo by Ron Sachs / CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM .(RESTRICTION: No New York Metro or other Newspapers within a 75 mile radius of New York City)

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File - Pope Jean Paul II

File photo dated August 15, 2004. Pope John Paul II celebrated an open air mass in Lourdes in front of 300 000 pilgrims at the Roman Catholic shrine to the Virgin Mary . Lourdes. France. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM

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File - Pope Jean Paul II

File photo dated August 15, 2004. Pope John Paul II celebrated an open air mass in Lourdes in front of 300 000 pilgrims at the Roman Catholic shrine to the Virgin Mary . Lourdes. France. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM

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File - Pope Jean Paul II

File photo dated August 15, 2004. Frail pope John Paul II visited the shrine to the Virgin Mary in Lourdes that is associated with miraculous cures and he prayed alone in the grotto of the apparitions. - Lourdes Vatican. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM

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The National Iranian Oil Company

A crude oil tanker is docked at an offshore oil terminal in the Persian Gulf, Iran, on August 7, 2004. The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) manages crude oil exports and petroleum distribution under the Ministry of Petroleum. Photo by Sam/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration For US Election Day

File photo dated August 11th, 2004 - Members of the New York City Police Department stand guard outside of the New York Stock Exchange in Lower Manhattan, New York in response to threats of attack on the Stock Exchange by the terrorist Group Al-Qaeda. - American voters go to the polls on Tuesday to choose their next president. US election results are sometimes declared within hours of the polls closing, but this year's tight contest could mean a longer wait. Democratic Vice-President Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump, the former president, have been running neck-and-neck for weeks. Photo by William Gratz/ABACAPRESS.COM

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- Serie B - AC Pisa vs Palermo FC

Fans of Pisa show banners in memory of Marco Verdigi, died in 2004 after saving two children who were drowning in the sea during AC Pisa vs Palermo FC, Italian soccer Serie B match in Pisa, Italy, August 24 2024

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French president Jacques Chirac, actor Alain Delon and Madame Chaban-Delmas inaugurate the new Esplanade -Jacques Chaban-Delmas- in 7th arrondissement of Paris-France on august 26, 2004 in memory of the resistance hero, minister, president of national assembly and mayor of Bordeaux, Jacques Chaban-Delmas died in 2000. Photo by Bruno Klein/ABACA.

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Gena Rowlands Dies At 94

File photo - Cast member Gena Rowlands pictured as she arrives at the Chelsea Nine theatre to attend the premiere screening of HBO's Hysterical Blindness in New York City, NY, USA on August 22, 2002. Oscar-nominated actress Gena Rowlands, whose screen career spanned nearly seven decades, has died at 94. Rowlands was known for both her work in early independent cinema alongside her first husband, director John Cassavetes, as well as crowd-pleasing titles later in her career, including “Hope Floats” in 1998 opposite Sandra Bullock and the hit film “The Notebook” in 2004. Photo by Nicolas Khayat/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gena Rowlands Dies At 94

File photo - Cast member Gena Rowlands pictured as she arrives at the Chelsea Nine theatre to attend the premiere screening of HBO's Hysterical Blindness in New York City, NY, USA on August 22, 2002. Oscar-nominated actress Gena Rowlands, whose screen career spanned nearly seven decades, has died at 94. Rowlands was known for both her work in early independent cinema alongside her first husband, director John Cassavetes, as well as crowd-pleasing titles later in her career, including “Hope Floats” in 1998 opposite Sandra Bullock and the hit film “The Notebook” in 2004. Photo by Nicolas Khayat/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Beloved Priest Abbe Pierre Accused Of Sexual Assault

File photo - The Abbe Pierre at the 'Emmaus' headquarters in Alfortville, near Paris-France, on August 5, 2004. The French catholic priest, a former resistance hero who is often described as the conscience of the nation, celebrates his 92nd birthday Today. Legendary French priest and a life-long advocate of the homeless was accused of committing acts that would amount to “sexual assault or sexual harassment,” the international foundation he established said in a statement Wednesday. Abbe Pierre, who died in 2007, was one of France’s most beloved public figures. The founder of the international Emmaus Community for the poor, Abbe Pierre had served as France’s conscience since the 1950s, when he persuaded Parliament to pass a law, still on the books, forbidding landlords to evict tenants during winter. Photo by Bruno Klein/ABACA.

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Beloved Priest Abbe Pierre Accused Of Sexual Assault

File photo - The Abbe Pierre at the 'Emmaus' headquarters in Alfortville, near Paris-France, on August 5, 2004. The French catholic priest, a former resistance hero who is often described as the conscience of the nation, celebrates his 92nd birthday Today. Legendary French priest and a life-long advocate of the homeless was accused of committing acts that would amount to “sexual assault or sexual harassment,” the international foundation he established said in a statement Wednesday. Abbe Pierre, who died in 2007, was one of France’s most beloved public figures. The founder of the international Emmaus Community for the poor, Abbe Pierre had served as France’s conscience since the 1950s, when he persuaded Parliament to pass a law, still on the books, forbidding landlords to evict tenants during winter. Photo by Bruno Klein/ABACA.

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(SP)CHINA-XINJIANG-AKTO-MOUNTAINEERING (CN)

(240709) -- AKTO, July 9, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- This combined photo shows Janibaiki Burunbayi (L) and his brothers serving a foreign mountaineering team on Muztagh Ata on August 6, 2004 (above) and Taxibayi Janibaiki (3rd L) and his companions during their summit of Muztagh Ata on July 29, 2023. The Muztagh Ata, located at the Pamir Plateau at an altitude of over 7,500 meters in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, is an attraction to mountaineering enthusiasts from around the world. During the climbing season, people gather in Subax Village, Akto County, at the foot of the Muztagh Ata for mountaineering. As for those local people who are familiar with the terrain and climate here, participating in international mountaineering sports can increase their income and improve their livelihoods. At the same time, through mountaineering, they also gain a deeper understanding of the outside world. Like many other young people in the village, 23-year-old Taxibayi Janibaiki works as a p

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(SP)CHINA-XINJIANG-AKTO-MOUNTAINEERING (CN)

(240709) -- AKTO, July 9, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Taxibayi Janibaiki examines a photo of his father taken by a foreign mountaineering team on August 6, 2004, during their ascent of Muztagh Ata, in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, July 5, 2024. The Muztagh Ata, located at the Pamir Plateau at an altitude of over 7,500 meters in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, is an attraction to mountaineering enthusiasts from around the world. During the climbing season, people gather in Subax Village, Akto County, at the foot of the Muztagh Ata for mountaineering. As for those local people who are familiar with the terrain and climate here, participating in international mountaineering sports can increase their income and improve their livelihoods. At the same time, through mountaineering, they also gain a deeper understanding of the outside world. Like many other young people in the village, 23-year-old Taxibayi Janibaiki works as a porter for mountaineering teams durin

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More Than 100m Cars Recalled in China

Citizens look at vehicles on display at an exhibition in Beijing, China, August 29, 2004. On March 13, 2024, according to the data of the State Administration for Market Regulation, the defective product recall system has been implemented in China for 20 years, and by the end of 2023, China has implemented 2,842 vehicle recalls involving 103 million vehicles.

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Japan's ex-House of Councillors President Ogi dies at 89

Japan's former House of Councillors President Chikage Ogi (background) presides at the upper house plenary session in the Diet Building in Tokyo in August 2004 as then Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi addresses the upper house. The actress-turned-lawmaker of the Liberal Democratic Party, whose real name was Hiroko Hayashi, died of cancer on March 9, 2023, at age 89.

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Kuroyanagi, UNICEF goodwill ambassador for 30 yrs

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in August 2004 shows Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (L), a Japanese goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Children's Fund, or UNICEF, embracing a girl in Goma, eastern Congo. Kuroyanagi, who marked 30 years in 2014 since assuming the UNICEF post, says she wants to continue charitable works for 20 more years until the age of 100.

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Japanese pitcher Kudo retires at 48

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese pitcher Kimiyasu Kudo (L) puts on a Golden Players Club jacket with the assistance of Masaichi Kaneda, then executive member of the club, in August 2004 at Tokyo Dome in the Japanese capital after winning his 200th game, a requirement for pitchers to become members of the Japanese professional baseball players' club. Kudo, who won 224 games in his 29-year career -- the longest playing career in Japanese baseball history, announced his retirement on Dec. 9, 2011, at the age of 48.

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Japan names ambassadors to Yemen, Senegal

TOKYO, Japan - The government decided on Dec. 1 to appoint Masakazu Toshikage (in file photo), a consul general in the United States, as Japan's new ambassador to Yemen. Toshikage, 60, has served as consul general in Miami since August 2004 after working in posts such as head of the Specialized Agencies' Administration Division at the Foreign Ministry's Foreign Policy Bureau.

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Okinawa city uses bumper stickers to protest U.S. military base

GINOWAN, Japan - Ginowan Mayor Yoichi Iha pastes a sticker on his official car in a bumper sticker campaign he began on Sept. 7 to urge a resolution to the problems associated with having a U.S. military base in the Okinawan city. In August 2004, a U.S. Marine Corps helicopter from Futemma Air Station crashed into a university campus adjacent to the base in Ginowan.

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Univ. launches balloon to protest 2004 U.S. helicopter crash

GINOWAN, Japan - Okinawa International University launched a balloon Aug. 10 from its campus in Okinawa Prefecture in protest against the U.S. Marine Corps helicopter crash in August 2004, which damaged the walls of its main building.

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Fireworks production in full swing to mark Niigata recovery

OJIYA, Japan - A fireworks manufacturer in Ojiya, Niigata Prefecture, has been operating at full swing to produce fireworks in time for a festival in August to celebrate Niigata's recovery from deadly earthquakes in October 2004.

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(2)Top court says gov't 1983 approval to build Monju reactor was valid

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken on August 31, 2004 shows the Monju experimental fast-breeder nuclear reactor in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture. The Supreme Court ruled May 30 that the government's 1983 approval to build the nuclear reactor was valid, overturning a 2003 high court ruling that invalidated the approval.

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Poor management behind Mihama nuke reactor accident: report

TOKYO, Japan - Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Shoichi Nakagawa (L) receives from Yasuhide Asada, chairman of an investigation panel of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, a final report on investigation into a steam leakage accident at a Kansai Electric Power Co. nuclear reactor in the town of Mihama, Fukui Prefecture, in August 2004.

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De Lima of Brazil arrives in Japan to join marathon race

OSAKA, Japan - Brazilian marathoner Vanderlei de Lima, who won bronze in the men's marathon in the Athens Olympics in August 2004 after being attacked by a spectator, arrives at Kansai airport March 1 to take part in Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon on March 6.

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Fukui governor OKs remodeling Monju nuclear power reactor

FUKUI, Japan - Fukui Gov. Issei Nishikawa said Feb. 6 he has approved a plan to retool the troubled Monju fast-breeder nuclear reactor (photo taken August 2004), paving the way for resumption of the power generation facility's operation following a 1995 sodium leak accident.

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U.S. consortium to build tuna farm in California for export to Japan

LOS ANGELES, United States - A diver hauls a tuna cultivated at a farm off the cost of southern California in a photo taken in August, 2004. A consortium of U.S. firms is planning to build a large tuna farm to raise the fish mainly for export to Japan. The U.S. Department of Commerce is preparing a bill to support the construction of the farm as it apparently believes that tuna exports to Japan would help reduce U.S. trade deficits with Japan.

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(1)Machimura feels Futemma base relocation must speed up

GINOWAN, Japan - Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura speaks with a municipal government official on Oct. 16 during his visit to the scene of a CH-53D U.S. military chopper crash in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, in August 2004. Machimura said later it is necessary to accelerate the relocation of some of the U.S. Marine Corps Futemma Air Station's functions in the prefecture in line with a Japan-U.S. agreement.

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Stuffed megamouth to be put on exhibition

ICHIKAWA, Japan - Two girls looks into the mouth of a stuffed megamouth just completed at a laboratory in Ichikawa, east of Tokyo, on July 13. This rare shark, 4.2 meters long, was netted in Suruga Bay on the Pacific in the summer of 2003. It will be put on exhibition at Tokai University's Oceanology Museum in Shimizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, from July 17 to August 31, 2004.

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Wahid may only last until Aug., Megawati aide says

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Arifin Panigoro, deputy chairman of Indonesia's largest political party, the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-Perjuangan), speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Jakarta on March 6. He said Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid, who insists he will serve a full term until 2004 despite growing calls for his resignation, will be lucky to last through August.

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(2)Mitsubishi Truck

MAEBASHI, Japan - A burnout Mitsubishi Fuso Truck & Bus Corp. truck on the Kanetsu Expressway in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture. The photo was taken August 18, 2004. (Kyodo)

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(1)Machimura feels Futemma base relocation must speed up

GINOWAN, Japan - Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura speaks with a municipal government official on Oct. 16 during his visit to the scene of a CH-53D U.S. military chopper crash in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, in August 2004. Machimura said later it is necessary to accelerate the relocation of some of the U.S. Marine Corps Futemma Air Station's functions in the prefecture in line with a Japan-U.S. agreement. (Kyodo)

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U.S. consortium to build tuna farm in California for export to J

LOS ANGELES, United States - A diver hauls a tuna cultivated at a farm off the cost of southern California in a photo taken in August, 2004. A consortium of U.S. firms is planning to build a large tuna farm to raise the fish mainly for export to Japan. The U.S. Department of Commerce is preparing a bill to support the construction of the farm as it apparently believes that tuna exports to Japan would help reduce U.S. trade deficits with Japan. (Kyodo)

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Inspectors for forest management certification

FUKUOKA, Japan - Inspectors from a civilian agency conduct a final inspection for forest management certification in the village of Morotsuka, Miyazaki Prefecture. The photo was taken in August 2004. (Kyodo)

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Fukui governor OKs remodeling Monju nuclear power reactor

FUKUI, Japan - Fukui Gov. Issei Nishikawa said Feb. 6 he has approved a plan to retool the troubled Monju fast-breeder nuclear reactor (photo taken August 2004), paving the way for resumption of the power generation facility's operation following a 1995 sodium leak accident. (Kyodo)

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De Lima of Brazil arrives in Japan to join marathon race

OSAKA, Japan - Brazilian marathoner Vanderlei de Lima, who won bronze in the men's marathon in the Athens Olympics in August 2004 after being attacked by a spectator, arrives at Kansai airport March 1 to take part in Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon on March 6. (Kyodo)

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Poor management behind Mihama nuke reactor accident: report

TOKYO, Japan - Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Shoichi Nakagawa (L) receives from Yasuhide Asada, chairman of an investigation panel of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, a final report on investigation into a steam leakage accident at a Kansai Electric Power Co. nuclear reactor in the town of Mihama, Fukui Prefecture, in August 2004. (Kyodo)

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(2)Top court says gov't 1983 approval to build Monju reactor was

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken on August 31, 2004 shows the Monju experimental fast-breeder nuclear reactor in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture. The Supreme Court ruled May 30 that the government's 1983 approval to build the nuclear reactor was valid, overturning a 2003 high court ruling that invalidated the approval. (Kyodo)

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Japan names ambassadors to Yemen, Senegal

TOKYO, Japan - The government decided on Dec. 1 to appoint Masakazu Toshikage (in file photo), a consul general in the United States, as Japan's new ambassador to Yemen. Toshikage, 60, has served as consul general in Miami since August 2004 after working in posts such as head of the Specialized Agencies' Administration Division at the Foreign Ministry's Foreign Policy Bureau. (Kyodo)

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Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie (2004)

Silfer The Sky Dragon, Winged Dragon Of Ra & Obelisk The Tormentor Film: Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie (2004) Director: Hatsuki Tsuji 13 August 2004 Date: 13 August 2004

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Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie (2004)

Yami Yugi Film: Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie (2004) Director: Hatsuki Tsuji 13 August 2004 Date: 13 August 2004

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Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie (2004)

The Sorcerer Of Dark Magic Film: Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie (2004) Director: Hatsuki Tsuji 13 August 2004 Date: 13 August 2004

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Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie (2004)

Yami Yugi Film: Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie (2004) Director: Hatsuki Tsuji 13 August 2004 Date: 13 August 2004

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Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie (2004)

Kaiba, Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon & Yugi Film: Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie (2004) Director: Hatsuki Tsuji 13 August 2004 Date: 13 August 2004

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Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie (2004)

Pegasus Film: Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie (2004) Director: Hatsuki Tsuji 13 August 2004 Date: 13 August 2004

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Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie (2004)

Yami Yugi Film: Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie (2004) Director: Hatsuki Tsuji 13 August 2004 Date: 13 August 2004