Nagasaki residents hold WWII exhibition

Nagasaki residents hold WWII exhibition

NAGASAKI, Japan - Visitors view displays at an exhibition on Japan's World War II occupation of Indonesia that was opened by a group of Nagasaki residents on Nov. 17 after the city government refused to provide the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum as a venue. The ''Nichiran Senso Gembaku Ten'' (Exhibition on the Japan-Netherlands War and the Atomic Bomb) includes testimonies by Dutch POWs captured after the Imperial Japanese Army occupied Indonesia, which was then a Dutch colony.

Nagasaki residents hold WWII exhibition

Nagasaki residents hold WWII exhibition

NAGASAKI, Japan - Visitors view displays at an exhibition on Japan's World War II occupation of Indonesia that was opened by a group of Nagasaki residents on Nov. 17 after the city government refused to provide the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum as a venue. The ''Nichiran Senso Gembaku Ten'' (Exhibition on the Japan-Netherlands War and the Atomic Bomb) includes testimonies by Dutch POWs captured after the Imperial Japanese Army occupied Indonesia, which was then a Dutch colony.

Renowned painter Maruki dies at 87

Renowned painter Maruki dies at 87

URAWA, Japan - This is a file photo of internationally renowned Japanese painter Toshi Maruki (L), who died on Jan. 13 of pneumonia and blood poisoning at a hospital in Saitama Prefecture. She was 87. This photo shows Maruki working on a painting with her husband, Iri. Among her works are such prominent pieces as ''Gembaku no Zu (Hiroshima Murals)'' and ''Auschwitz no Zu (A Picture of Auschwitz),'' both of which address the tragedy and inhumanity of war.