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Japanese man talks about surviving bombing on Angaur during WWII

TOKYO, April 8 Kyodo - Kannosuke Hayashi, 85, talks during an interview in March 2015 in Iizuka, Fukuoka Prefecture, about his experience of surviving a U.S. air raid on Palau's Angaur Island in March 1944 during World War II while he was mobilized for an airport construction project as a junior high school student. He shows a case containing a bomb fragment that had punctured his leg.

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PM Aso opens election office in his constituency in Fukuoka

FUKUOKA, Japan - Chikako Aso (R), the wife of Prime Minister Taro Aso, speaks to supporters of the prime minister on June 20 as he opened an office in his constituency in Iizuka, Fukuoka Prefecture, to prepare for a general election for the House of Representatives that must be held by fall.

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Centenarians in Japan total record 23,000

TOKYO, Japan - Ura Koyama (file photo), of Iizuka, Fukuoka Prefecture, is the oldest person in Japan at 114. The number of centenarians in Japan will total a record 23,038 by the end of this month, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said Sept. 14 ahead of Sept. 20 Respect for the Aged Day.