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Ex-Japanese emperor's 90th birthday

Japanese Princess Aiko visits the Akasaka Estate in Tokyo to pay her respects to her grandfather and former Emperor Akihito on his 90th birthday on Dec. 23, 2023.(Pool photo)

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Ex-Japanese emperor's 90th birthday

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako visit the Akasaka Estate in Tokyo to pay their respects to former Emperor Akihito on his 90th birthday on Dec. 23, 2023. (Pool photo)

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Ex-Japanese tea ceremony school head talks about wartime experience

One-hundred-year-old Sen Genshitsu, a former grand master of the Urasenke Japanese tea ceremony school, gives an interview in Tokyo on Oct. 5, 2023, talking about his wartime experience as a kamikaze pilot following the mobilization of college students into the Japanese military.

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Ex-Japanese tea ceremony school head talks about wartime experience

One-hundred-year-old Sen Genshitsu, a former grand master of the Urasenke Japanese tea ceremony school, gives an interview in Tokyo on Oct. 5, 2023, talking about his wartime experience as a kamikaze pilot following the mobilization of college students into the Japanese military.

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Ex-Japanese tea ceremony school head talks about wartime experience

One-hundred-year-old Sen Genshitsu, a former grand master of the Urasenke Japanese tea ceremony school, gives an interview in Tokyo on Oct. 5, 2023, talking about his wartime experience as a kamikaze pilot following the mobilization of college students into the Japanese military.

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Ex-Japanese emperor, empress in Nara

Former Japanese Emperor Akihito waves from his car, with former Empress Michiko also on board, after arriving in Nara Prefecture in western Japan during a regional trip on May 16, 2023. (Pool photo)

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Ex-Japanese emperor, empress in Kyoto

Former Japanese Emperor Akihito and former Empress Michiko wave their hands after watching a grand parade, the main attraction of the Aoi Festival in Kyoto, western Japan, on May 16, 2023. (Pool photo)

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Ex-Japanese emperor, empress in Nara

Former Japanese Emperor Akihito (L) and former Empress Michiko wave from their car as they leave for their hotel from Kintetsu Nara Station in western Japan during a regional trip on May 16, 2023. (Pool photo)

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Ex-Japanese emperor, empress in Kyoto

Former Japanese Emperor Akihito (front row, L) and former Empress Michiko (front row, R) watch a parade by people dressed as nobles of the ancient Heian Era during the Aoi Festival in Kyoto, western Japan, on May 16, 2023. (Pool photo)

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Ex-Japanese emperor, empress in Kyoto

Former Japanese Emperor Akihito (front row, 2nd from R) and former Empress Michiko (front row, R) watch a parade by people dressed as nobles of the ancient Heian Era during the Aoi Festival in Kyoto, western Japan, on May 16, 2023. (Pool photo)

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Ex-Japanese PM Hatoyama to visit Russia

BEIJING, China - Former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama speaks about a plan to visit Russia in September during a press conference in Beijing on Aug. 18, 2010. Hatoyama said he hopes to talk with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev over disputed Russian-held islands off Hokkaido, called the Northern Territories in Japan.

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Ex-Japanese lawmaker meets China's 4th-ranked politician

BEIJING, China - Yohei Kono (L), a former senior member of Japan's main ruling party known for his apology in the 1990s to women who worked against their will in wartime military brothels, holds talks with China's fourth-ranking Communist Party member Yu Zhengsheng at Beijing's Great Hall of the People on Dec. 19, 2014. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Ex-Japanese lawmaker meets China's 4th-ranked politician

BEIJING, China - Yohei Kono (L), a former senior member of Japan's main ruling party known for his apology in the 1990s to women who worked against their will in wartime military brothels, shakes hands with China's fourth-ranking Communist Party member Yu Zhengsheng ahead of their talks at Beijing's Great Hall of the People on Dec. 19, 2014. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Ex-Japanese, British soldiers in 1944 Imphal Battle meet

SHONAI, Japan - Roy Welland (L front), a former British soldier, visits Shonai town in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan, and meets Koichiro Wajima (R front), a former soldier of the now-defunct Imperial Japanese Army, on Oct. 25, 2014, as this year marks the 70th anniversary of the 1944 Battle of Imphal between the Japanese military and the Allied forces in India.

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Ex-Japanese footballer visits refugee camp

UMPIEM, Thailand - Former Japanese professional footballer Shinnosuke Honda plays soccer with children at a camp for refugees from Myanmar in Thailand's Umpiem on June 20, 2014, World Refugee Day.

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Ex-Japanese footballer reads book for kids at refugee camp

UMPIEM, Thailand - Former Japanese professional footballer Shinnosuke Honda (R) reads a picture book for children at a camp for refugees from Myanmar in Thailand's Umpiem on June 20, 2014, World Refugee Day.

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Ex-Japanese soldier offers prayers to war dead in Saipan

SAIPAN, United States - Teruki Okazaki, a former Japanese heavy artillery unit soldier who survived the 1944 Battle of Saipan during World War II, offers prayers on June 14, 2014, at a memorial for those who belonged to the same unit and died on the island. In the background is a 15-centimeter howitzer used by the unit.

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Ex-Japanese WW2 soldier offers prayers in Saipan

SAIPAN, United States - Teruki Okazaki, a former Japanese heavy artillery unit soldier who survived the 1944 Battle of Saipan during World War II, prays on June 14, 2014, in front of a memorial for those who belonged to the same unit and died on the island. The memorial was built around a 15-centimeter howitzer the unit used.

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Ex-Japanese POWs records

KYOTO, Japan - Mementos and records of the return home of Japanese prisoners of war detained in the Soviet Union after World War II are displayed at the Maizuru Repatriation Memorial Museum in Maizuru, Kyoto Prefecture, on March 4, 2014. Maizuru City on the Sea of Japan coast said the same day it will recommend the materials for entry on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register.

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UNESCO listing sought for ex-Japanese POW records

KYOTO, Japan - A memoir composed by a former Japanese detainee at a Soviet-era labor camp in Siberia after World War II is photographed at the Maizuru Repatriation Memorial Museum in Maizuru, Kyoto Prefecture, on March 4, 2014. It is among 570 items the city applied the same day for entry into UNESCO's Memory of the World Register.

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Ex-Japanese Foreign Minister Maehara on Etorofu

NEMURO, Japan - Former Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara (C) inspects a seafood processing factory on Etorofu Island, one of four Russian-held islands claimed by Japan off Hokkaido, on Aug. 7, 2011. He was visiting the island under a bilateral visa-free exchange program. The slogan on the factory (in the background) reads ''The Kurils belong to Russia.'' The four disputed islands are known as the Southern Kurils in Russia and the Northern Territories in Japan.

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Ex-Japanese Foreign Minister Maehara on Etorofu

NEMURO, Japan - Former Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara (2nd from R) speaks with a local reporter on Etorofu Island, one of four Russian-held islands claimed by Japan off Hokkaido, on Aug. 6, 2011. He was visiting the island under a bilateral visa-free exchange program.

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Ex-Japanese military interpreter Nagase dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in September 2000 shows Takashi Nagase, a former Japanese military interpreter and philanthropist, who died June 21, 2011, at the age of 93. Nagase was involved in the construction of the infamous Thailand-Burma railway during World War II and later became engaged in philanthropic activities to atone for his wartime acts.

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U.S. ex-POWs meet ex-Japanese soldier

KOFU, Japan - Former member of the Imperial Japanese Army Tokio Watanabe (2nd from L) shakes hands with a former U.S. soldier and prisoner of war during World War II Joseph Alexander (R) amid the presence of another former POW from the United States Edward Jackfert (2nd from R) in Yamanashi Prefecture on Sept. 14, 2010. The delegation of former POWs from the United States is scheduled to leave Japan on Sept. 19, 2010.

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Ex-Japanese premier Fukuda receives U.N. population award

NEW YORK, United States - Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (L) receives a medal from U.N. Deputy Secretary General Asha-Rose Migiro on June 3, 2010, as a parliamentarians' forum chaired by Fukuda received an award for its contribution to addressing population issues. Fukuda picked up the 2010 U.N. Population Award on behalf of the Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development at a ceremony in New York.

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Ex-Japanese diplomat grappling with reconstruction of Kosovo

PRISTINA, Kosovo - Tetsuo Kondo, the deputy chief of the Kosovo office of the United Nations Development Program, talks about his work in an interview with Kyodo News in Pristina, Kosovo on Aug.24.

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Hu Jintao meets with ex-Japanese Prime Minister Nakasone

BEIJING, China - Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) meets with former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on April 29. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Hu Jintao meets with ex-Japanese Prime Minister Nakasone

BEIJING, China - Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) holds talks with former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on April 29. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Chinese premier meets with ex-Japanese Prime Minister Murayama

BEIJING, China - Chinese Premier Wen Jiaobao (R) meets with former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama at Beijing's Great Hall of the People on Sept. 27. Murayama is visiting China as part of events to mark the 35th anniversary of normalization of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

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Chinese premier meets with ex-Japanese Prime Minister Mori

BEIJING, China - Chinese Premier Wen Jiaobao (R) meets with former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori at Beijing's Great Hall of the People on Sept. 27. Mori is visiting China as part of events to mark the 35th anniversary of normalization of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

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Ex-Japanese Communist Party leader Kenji Miyamoto dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo of former Japanese Communist Party leader Kenji Miyamoto, who died July 18 at a Tokyo hospital. He was 98.

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Ex-Japanese Communist Party leader Kenji Miyamoto dies

TOKYO, Japan - Former Japanese Communist Party leader Kenji Miyamoto, who died in at a Tokyo hospital on July 18 at age 98, campaigned at Tokyo's Shinjuku Station in June 1983 for the House of Councillors election that year.

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Ex-Japanese Communist Party Chairman Murakami dies at 85

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in January 1989 shows Hiromu Murakami, former chairman of the Japanese Communist Party, who died of pneumonia at an Osaka hospital on March 22, the party said on March 23. He was 85.

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Ex-Japanese hostage hopes to be part of Iraq's future

TOKYO, Japan - Nahoko Takato, one of three Japanese taken hostage by a militant group in Iraq, speaks at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Sept. 7. Takato and the two others were captured by the armed group on April 7 and held for nine days.

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(2)2 ex-Japanese captives in Iraq head home from Amman

AMMAN, Jordan - Human rights activist Nobutaka Watanabe, one of the two Japanese civilians released April 17 by a militant group in Iraq, prepares to leave Amman international airport April 19 for Japan.

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(1)2 ex-Japanese captives in Iraq head home from Amman

AMMAN, Jordan - Freelance journalist Jumpei Yasuda, one of the two Japanese civilians released April 17 by a militant group in Iraq, prepares to leave Amman international airport April 19 for Japan.

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Ex-Japanese prisoner meets ex-U.S. jailer in happy reunion

PHILADELPHIA, United States - Buck Langdon (L), a former U.S. soldier who served as a guard at the Sugamo prison in Tokyo, and Tokio Tobita, a former Japanese sergeant who spent 10 years in prison on war crimes, embrace in an emotional reunion in Philadelphia on Aug. 1. Langdon, 73, and Tobita, 84, were in Philadelphia for a special exhibition at the Philadelphia Art Alliance gallery on artwork produced by Japanese prisoners who spent time at Sugamo prison.

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Britain honors ex-Japanese military interpreter

KURASHIKI, Japan - British Ambassador to Japan Stephen Gomersall (R) presents a British government letter of appreciation to Takashi Nagase, 84, for his postwar role in helping former British prisoners of war (POWs) reach a reconciliation with Japan, in Okayama Prefecture on April 5. Nagase served as a Japanese military interpreter during World War II.

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Ex-Japanese premier Mori meets Russia's Alexy II

MOSCOW, Russia - Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (L) exchange gifts with Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Alexy II in Moscow on Jan. 14.

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Mori visits cemetery for ex-Japanese POWs

IRKUTSK, Russia - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (R) offers a wreath and pays a silent tribute March 25 at a cemetery in Irkutsk, Russia, for Japanese who died in detention there after the end of World War II.

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Ex-Japanese premier tours Nanjin

Japan's former Socialist Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama (L) watches displays of Japanese atrocities at the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Museum in Nanjing on May 24. Murayama said Japan must face up to the ''intolerable pains'' inflicted on the Chinese people by the Imperial Japanese Army during the 1937-1945 Sino-Japanese War.

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Britain honors ex-Japanese military interpreter

KURASHIKI, Japan - British Ambassador to Japan Stephen Gomersall (R) presents a British government letter of appreciation to Takashi Nagase, 84, for his postwar role in helping former British prisoners of war (POWs) reach a reconciliation with Japan, in Okayama Prefecture on April 5. Nagase served as a Japanese military interpreter during World War II.

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Ex-Japanese hostage hopes to be part of Iraq's future

TOKYO, Japan - Nahoko Takato, one of three Japanese taken hostage by a militant group in Iraq, speaks at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Sept. 7. Takato and the two others were captured by the armed group on April 7 and held for nine days. (Kyodo)

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U.S. recruited ex-Japanese army officers to form spy ring

WASHINGTON, United States - Recently declassified U.S. intelligence documents show that the United States recruited former top Japanese army officers after World War II to form a spy ring against communists in Japan and other countries such as the Soviet Union and North Korea. (Kyodo)

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Ex-Japanese Communist Party Chairman Murakami dies at 85

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in January 1989 shows Hiromu Murakami, former chairman of the Japanese Communist Party, who died of pneumonia at an Osaka hospital on March 22, the party said on March 23. He was 85. (Kyodo)

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Ex-Japanese Communist Party leader Kenji Miyamoto dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo of former Japanese Communist Party leader Kenji Miyamoto, who died July 18 at a Tokyo hospital. He was 98. (Kyodo)

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Ex-Japanese Communist Party leader Kenji Miyamoto dies

TOKYO, Japan - Former Japanese Communist Party leader Kenji Miyamoto, who died in at a Tokyo hospital on July 18 at age 98, campaigned at Tokyo's Shinjuku Station in June 1983 for the House of Councillors election that year. (Kyodo)

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Hu Jintao meets with ex-Japanese Prime Minister Nakasone

BEIJING, China - Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) holds talks with former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on April 29. (Pool photo by Kyodo News) (Kyodo)

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Hu Jintao meets with ex-Japanese Prime Minister Nakasone

BEIJING, China - Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) meets with former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on April 29. (Pool photo by Kyodo News) (Kyodo)

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Ex-Japanese premier tours Nanjin

Japan's former Socialist Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama (L) watches displays of Japanese atrocities at the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Museum in Nanjing on May 24. Murayama said Japan must face up to the ''intolerable pains'' inflicted on the Chinese people by the Imperial Japanese Army during the 1937-1945 Sino-Japanese War.