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Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa dies at 88

Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa (R) and American conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein (L) sing in a chorus in front of a monument for atomic bomb victims at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima in August 1985. Ozawa died at 88 on Feb. 6, 2024, from heart failure.

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Tokyo Olympics:Beach Volleyball

Gold medalists April Ross (R), Alix Klineman (2nd R) of the United States, silver medalists Taliqua Clancy and Mariafe Artacho del Solar of Australia, bronze medalists Joana Heidrich and Anouk Verge-Depre of Switzerland take a selfie after the medal ceremony for the women’s beach volleyball at the Tokyo Olympic Games.Date: August 6, 2021Place: Shiokaze Park in Tokyo, JAPAN

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"Daruma" doll market in Fukushima town

A gigantic red "daruma" doll, a popular talisman of good luck, is displayed during a New Year daruma market in the northeastern Japan town of Futaba -- which co-hosts the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant -- on Jan. 6, 2024. The market was held for the second time in Futaba since an evacuation order was partially lifted in August 2022 about 11 and a half years after the March 2011 nuclear crisis.

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"Daruma" doll market in Fukushima town

A gigantic red "daruma" doll, a popular talisman of good luck, is displayed during a New Year daruma market in the northeastern Japan town of Futaba -- which co-hosts the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant -- on Jan. 6, 2024. The market was held for the second time in Futaba since an evacuation order was partially lifted in August 2022 about 11 and a half years after the March 2011 nuclear crisis.

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"Daruma" doll market in Fukushima town

People buy red "daruma" dolls, a popular talisman of good luck, during a New Year daruma market in the northeastern Japan town of Futaba -- which co-hosts the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant -- on Jan. 6, 2024. The market was held for the second time in Futaba since an evacuation order was partially lifted in August 2022 about 11 and a half years after the March 2011 nuclear crisis.

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Participants in anti-A-bomb confab pray for victims

NAGASAKI, Japan - Participants in a meeting held in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, by the Japan Congress Against A- and H-Bombs offer silent prayers on Aug. 6, 2014, for the victims of atomic bombs dropped on Japan in August 1945.

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Happy photo of Obamas

WASHINGTON, United States - This photo taken from Twitter shows U.S. President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle hugging in August 2012. The photo was posted on the micro-blogging site on Nov. 6, 2012, by an official account run by Obama's campaign staff to celebrate his reelection with a note saying "Four more years." It was "retweeted," or shared by Twitter users, more than 670,000 times by the following morning.

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77-yr Japanese yachtsman abandons nonstop around-the-world voyage

OSAKA, Japan - Ikuo Kashima, a 77-year-old Japanese yachtsman, has given up an attempt to become the oldest man to sail nonstop around the world solo, asking to be rescued off Tasmania Island, Australia, his supporters said on May 5. Kashima set sail aboard his 13.92-ton yacht Koraasa 77 in a photo taken on August 6, 2006 off Misaki, Osaka.

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Gorbachev's spokesperson Polyakov

Vladimir Polyakov, a spokesman for former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, gives an interview in Tokyo on Dec. 6, 2022. Gorbachev died in August 2022.

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Gorbachev's spokesperson Polyakov

Vladimir Polyakov, a spokesman for former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, gives an interview in Tokyo on Dec. 6, 2022. Gorbachev died in August 2022.