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Writer Osaragi's draft of nonfiction piece discovered

TOKYO, Japan - The discovered original draft of one of the late author Jiro Osagiri's 1959 nonfiction work entitled "Panama Jiken," meaning the Panama Incident, with red-pen checks, is shown in this photo taken on June 15, 2014. The items including the draft discovered at the residence of Osaragi's editor were returned to his adopted daughter Masako Nojiri, who donated them to the Osaragi Jiro Memorial Museum in Yokohama, south of Tokyo.

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Writer Osaragi's draft of nonfiction piece discovered

TOKYO, Japan - Masako Nojiri (L), an adopted daughter of the late writer Jiro Osaragi, is seen reading an original draft of one of Osaragi's nonfiction pieces on June 24, 2014, in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture. The items discovered at the residence of Osaragi's editor include his draft of "Panama Jiken," meaning the Panama Incident, and his letters. The items were returned to Nojiri, who then donated them to the Osaragi Jiro Memorial Museum in Yokohama, south of Tokyo.

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Asama Sanso incident in central Japan in 1972

KARUIZAWA, Japan, April 20 Kyodo - A member of a Japanese riot police squad points his gun at a mountain lodge at the center of a hostage crisis known as the Asama Sanso incident in the Nagano Prefecture town of Karuizawa, central Japan, on Feb. 24, 1972. The police operation to rescue a woman taken as a hostage there by armed members of the United Red Army group lasted for 10 days until Feb. 28.