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Somali president pays visit to Hiroshima memorial park

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (L) talks with Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui in the city on March 15, 2014, before visiting the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park dedicated to the victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing. Mohamud arrived in Japan on March 11 for a five-day visit.

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Nagasaki on eve of A-bomb anniv.

NAGASAKI, Japan - Lanterns are lit in Nagasaki Peace Park in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 8, 2011 on the eve of the 66th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city, to console the souls of people killed in the 1945 attack as well as those who perished in the March 11 disaster in the northeast.

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S. Korean son of A-bomb victim visits Hiroshima as consul general

HIROSHIMA, Japan - South Korea's newly appointed consul general in Hiroshima, Shin Hyong Gun, offers a wreath at a cenotaph for the victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on March 11, 2011. His father survived the atomic bomb attack.

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S. Korean son of A-bomb victim visits Hiroshima as consul general

HIROSHIMA, Japan - South Korea's newly appointed consul general in Hiroshima, Shin Hyong Gun, answers reporters' questions after visiting a cenotaph for the victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on March 11, 2011. His father survived the atomic bomb attack.

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Court acknowledges Aichi woman as A-bomb sufferer

NAGOYA, Japan - Teruko Nakamura (R) hugs her daughter Fusae near the Nagoya High Court on March 11, 2010, after being certified as suffering from an illness caused by radiation from the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki.

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Women growing vegetables on scorched land in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - This file photo shows women dressed in ''Mompe,'' traditional Japanese work pants for women, planting vegetables on inner city land scorched by air raids. The photo was taken on March 11, 1945 in Tokyo.

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Kijuro Shidehara

A diplomat turned politician who served as Japan's second postwar prime minister from October 1945 to May 1946. Shidehara became foreign minister twice before World War II (1924-27, 1929-31). The so-called Shidehara diplomacy of 1920s was characterized as its advocacy of international cooperation and a conciliatory attitude toward China. Born Aug. 11, 1872 and died March 10, 1951.

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Obuchi 19th longest serving premier in Japan

Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi, set to hold the premiership for the 19th longest period in Japan's postwar era, talks to members of the Cabinet Press Club at his official residence March 11. His term of office reaches 226 days March 12, equaling the span of Kijuro Shidehara, who served from October 1945 to May 1946.

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Obuchi 19th longest serving premier in Japan

Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi, set to hold the premiership for the 19th longest period in Japan's postwar era, talks to members of the Cabinet Press Club at his official residence March 11. His term of office reaches 226 days March 12, equaling the span of Kijuro Shidehara, who served from October 1945 to May 1946.

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A-bomb survivors seeks shutdown of nuclear plant

Plaintiffs including survivors of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings head to the Hiroshima District Court in the western Japan city on March 11, 2016, to file a lawsuit demanding a halt to the operation of Shikoku Electric Power Co.'s Ikata nuclear plant in western Japan. One of the plaintiffs said, "We know the awfulness of radiation through our own experience." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Daibutsu (the Great Buddha),Hyogo

The Great Buddha (Vairocana Buddha) of Nofukuji Temple, unveiled on March 15, 1891, was a bronze statue measuring 11.5 m in height and weighing 11 tons. In May 1945, the statue was removed and donated in response to a wartime metal collection order. The pedestal remained empty until May 1991 when, almost half a century later, a Great Buddha, larger than the original, was built here.==Date:unknown, Place:Kobe, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number93‐31‐0]

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Nagasaki on eve of A-bomb anniv.

NAGASAKI, Japan - Lanterns are lit in Nagasaki Peace Park in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 8, 2011 on the eve of the 66th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city, to console the souls of people killed in the 1945 attack as well as those who perished in the March 11 disaster in the northeast. (Kyodo)

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Court acknowledges Aichi woman as A-bomb sufferer

NAGOYA, Japan - Teruko Nakamura (R) hugs her daughter Fusae near the Nagoya High Court on March 11, 2010, after being certified as suffering from an illness caused by radiation from the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki. (Kyodo)

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S. Korean son of A-bomb victim visits Hiroshima as consul general

HIROSHIMA, Japan - South Korea's newly appointed consul general in Hiroshima, Shin Hyong Gun, answers reporters' questions after visiting a cenotaph for the victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on March 11, 2011. His father survived the atomic bomb attack. (Kyodo)

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S. Korean son of A-bomb victim visits Hiroshima as consul general

HIROSHIMA, Japan - South Korea's newly appointed consul general in Hiroshima, Shin Hyong Gun, offers a wreath at a cenotaph for the victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on March 11, 2011. His father survived the atomic bomb attack. (Kyodo)

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Women growing vegetables on scorched land in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - This file photo shows women dressed in ''Mompe,'' traditional Japanese work pants for women, planting vegetables on inner city land scorched by air raids. The photo was taken on March 11, 1945 in Tokyo. (Kyodo)