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Independence March in Montreal - Canada

People participate in an independence march in Montreal, on Saturday, October 25, 2025, during an event to mark the 30th anniversary of the 1995 Quebec referendum. Photo by Graham Hughes/CP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Independence March in Montreal - Canada

People participate in an independence march in Montreal, on Saturday, October 25, 2025, during an event to mark the 30th anniversary of the 1995 Quebec referendum. Photo by Graham Hughes/CP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Independence March in Montreal - Canada

People participate in an independence march in Montreal, on Saturday, October 25, 2025, during an event to mark the 30th anniversary of the 1995 Quebec referendum. Photo by Graham Hughes/CP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Independence March in Montreal - Canada

People participate in an independence march in Montreal, on Saturday, October 25, 2025, during an event to mark the 30th anniversary of the 1995 Quebec referendum. Photo by Graham Hughes/CP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Independence March in Montreal - Canada

People participate in an independence march in Montreal, on Saturday, October 25, 2025, during an event to mark the 30th anniversary of the 1995 Quebec referendum. Photo by Graham Hughes/CP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Independence March in Montreal - Canada

People participate in an independence march in Montreal, on Saturday, October 25, 2025, during an event to mark the 30th anniversary of the 1995 Quebec referendum. Photo by Graham Hughes/CP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Fashion Designer Giorgio Armani Dead at 91

MILAN - MILAN - CLAPTON ERIC, ARMANI GIORGIO (MILAN - 1995, March 09, Maurizio Maule/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Wetlands Guard Bird Species from Plateau to Urban Landscape - China

Black-necked cranes are seen at a reservoir in Lhunzhub County of Lhasa, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, March 8, 2025. As an important part of the world's ecosystem, wetland plays a huge role in many aspects including ecology, environment, economy and society. Known as an extra lung for Londoners, the London Wetland Centre is an urban ecological paradise transformed from industrial wasteland on the banks of the River Thames. The site was formerly four reservoirs operated by the Thames Water Company, which supplied drinking water to the southwest of London. The London Wetland Centre began construction in 1995 and was completed and opened to the public in 2000. Visitors to the centre can observe numerous endangered bird species, with over 200 species observed and recorded in the area, embodying a harmonious balance between urban life and nature. The unique geographical environment of Xizang nurtures distinct biological communities, housing many rare species. In efforts to protect the plateau's wild

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Japanese baseball legend Nagashima dies at 89

File photo taken March 3, 1995, shows Yomiuri Giants manager Shigeo Nagashima (R) and Daiei Hawks manager Sadaharu Oh shaking hands prior to a preseason baseball game in Oita, southwestern Japan. Nagashima, who was a key player on the Giants team that won nine consecutive Central League and Japan Series titles from 1965 to 1973 and later managed the club, died on June 3, 2025, aged 89.

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30th anniversary of sarin gas attack on Tokyo subway

Shizue Takahashi lays flowers at Tokyo Metro's Kasumigaseki Station in Tokyo on March 20, 2025, the 30th anniversary of the AUM Shinrikyo cult's sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system that killed 14 people and injured over 6,000 others. Her husband, who was the deputy stationmaster at the subway station on March 20, 1995, was killed in the attack. (Pool photo)

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30th anniversary of sarin gas attack on Tokyo subway

Shizue Takahashi prays at Tokyo Metro's Kasumigaseki Station in Tokyo on March 20, 2025, the 30th anniversary of the AUM Shinrikyo cult's sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system that killed 14 people and injured over 6,000 others. Her husband, who was the deputy stationmaster at the subway station on March 20, 1995, was killed in the attack. (Pool photo)

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30th anniversary of sarin gas attack on Tokyo subway

Shizue Takahashi meets the press after laying flowers at Tokyo Metro's Kasumigaseki Station in Tokyo on March 20, 2025, the 30th anniversary of the AUM Shinrikyo cult's sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system that killed 14 people and injured over 6,000 others. Her husband, who was the deputy stationmaster at the subway station on March 20, 1995, was killed in the attack.

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30th anniversary of sarin gas attack on Tokyo subway

Shizue Takahashi (C) meets the press after laying flowers at Tokyo Metro's Kasumigaseki Station in Tokyo on March 20, 2025, the 30th anniversary of the AUM Shinrikyo cult's sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system that killed 14 people and injured over 6,000 others. Her husband, who was the deputy stationmaster at the subway station on March 20, 1995, was killed in the attack.

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30th anniversary of sarin gas attack on Tokyo subway

Shizue Takahashi (C) meets the press after laying flowers at Tokyo Metro's Kasumigaseki Station in Tokyo on March 20, 2025, the 30th anniversary of the AUM Shinrikyo cult's sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system that killed 14 people and injured over 6,000 others. Her husband, who was the deputy stationmaster at the subway station on March 20, 1995, was killed in the attack.

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30th anniversary of sarin gas attack on Tokyo subway

Shizue Takahashi holds a press conference in Tokyo on March 12, 2025, ahead of the 30th anniversary on March 20 of a sarin nerve gas attack by the AUM Shinrikyo cult on Tokyo's subway system that killed 14 people and injured over 6,000. Her husband, who was the deputy stationmaster at the subway's Kasumigaseki Station on March 20, 1995, was killed in the attack.

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Japanese singer Koizumi and actor Nagase

TOKYO, Japan, March 5 Kyodo - Japanese singer and actress Kyoko Koizumi and actor Masatoshi Nagase attend a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 22, 1995, to announce their marriage.

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30th Newtown Festival held in Wellington, New Zealand

STORY: 30th Newtown Festival held in Wellington, New Zealand SHOOTING TIME: March 3, 2024 DATELINE: March 3, 2024 LENGTH: 00:02:44 LOCATION: Wellington CATEGORY: CULTURE/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the festival STORYLINE: One of New Zealand's biggest street fairs and free music festivals, the 30th Newtown Festival was held on Sunday in Wellington, attracting over 80,000 people. The free event grew from small beginnings in 1995 with the opening of a neighbourhood park. It is now the biggest free musical festival and street fair in New Zealand, with 16 outdoor stages and more than 1,000 performers. "It's good when it's not too crowded, but there are always parts of the event that you can go to where there is more space. There's variety throughout and all different themed areas and zones," said Newtown Festival associate director Anna Kemble Welch. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Wellington. (XHTV)

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"Yuru-kyara" mascot contest begins in quake-hit city in western Japan

"Yuru-Kyara" mascots from various municipalities in Japan gather at Izanagi Shrine in Awaji, Hyogo Prefecture, on Oct. 27, 2023, as the three-day "Yuru-Verse" popularity contest begins in the western Japan city devastated by the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake. The annual contest was launched after the March 2011 quake-tsunami disaster in northeastern Japan to give moral support to the affected regions.

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Iwate Pref. city mascot visits quake-hit city in Hyogo Pref.

Takata-no-Yumechan, the official mascot of Rikuzentakata, a northeastern Japan city hit by the March 2011 quake-tsunami disaster, prays at a memorial monument at a park in Awaji, a Hyogo Prefecture city devastated by the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake, on Oct. 27, 2023.

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Iwate Pref. city mascot visits quake-hit city in Hyogo Pref.

Takata-no-Yumechan, the official mascot of Rikuzentakata, a northeastern Japan city hit by the March 2011 quake-tsunami disaster, offers flowers at a memorial monument at a park in Awaji, a Hyogo Prefecture city devastated by the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake, on Oct. 27, 2023.

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Water diversion project safeguards ecology in China's Gansu

STORY: Water diversion project safeguards ecology in China's Gansu DATELINE: April 1, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:15 LOCATION: LANZHOU, China CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of the water diversion project 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): LEI ZAIXIN, Local official 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): JIA GUANGYU, Deputy director with the water diversion program STORYLINE: A water diversion project across a desert in northwest China has been in operation for more than two decades, providing much-needed water to residents and safeguarding the local ecology. In one section of the project, water is diverted from the Yellow River, China's second largest river, to Minqin, a county in Gansu Province that had long suffered severe water shortages. Construction of the project began in 1995, and was completed in 2000. The project was put into operation in March 2001. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): LEI ZAIXIN, Local official "A total of 1.755 billion cubic meters of water had been transferred to Minqin by the end of 2022. This has provid

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CHINA-BRAIN SCIENTIST-PHOTONS (CN)

(230328) -- BEIJING, March 28, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This undated file photo provided by the interviewee shows Cheng Heping, now a leading Chinese biomedical expert, operating a confocal microscope in a research lab in Maryland, the Untied States back in 1995. TO GO WITH "Profile: A brain scientist's decades-long focus on photons" (Xinhua)

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Cult-slain victim's son speaks after high court hearing

TOKYO, Japan - Minoru Kariya, son of Tokyo notary Kiyoshi Kariya who was abducted and killed by the AUM Shinrikyo cult in 1995, meets the press in Tokyo on Dec. 16, 2014, after the first appeal court hearing on former senior AUM member Makoto Hirata's alleged involvement in this and other criminal cases. The Tokyo High Court is set to hand down a ruling on March 4, 2015.

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Underground tunnel for water storage in Kobe

KOBE, Japan - A ceremony is held in Kobe on March 24, 2014, marking the completion of a tunnel for an underground water pipe to store water in the event of disasters, based on lessons from the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995.

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Minoru Kariya

TOKYO, Japan - Minoru Kariya, the son of the late Kiyoshi Kariya, one of the victims of the crimes committed by the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult, answers reporters' questions in front of the Tokyo District Court on March 7, 2014, after the court sentenced a former senior AUM member to nine years in prison for his involvement in three AUM-related cases, including the abduction and confinement of Kiyoshi Kariya, a Tokyo notary clerk, in February 1995.

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AUM doomsday cult

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in March 1995 shows followers of the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult meditating at the cult's headquarters in Fujinomiya, Shizuoka Prefecture. Police arrested Katsuya Takahashi, the last remaining AUM member wanted over the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system, on June 15, 2012, after he had been on the run for 17 years.

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Ex-BOJ chief Mieno dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in March 1995 shows former Bank of Japan Governor Yasushi Mieno. Mieno, known for his uncompromising fight against the economic bubble, died of cardiac arrest at a Tokyo hospital on April 15, 2012, his family said April 18. He was 88.

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Nerve gas attack anniversary

TOKYO, Japan - Employees offer a moment of silence at the subway's Kasumigaseki Station in Tokyo on March 20, 2012, during an event to commemorate the 17th anniversary of the Aum Shinrikyo cult's 1995 sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system. In the attack, 13 people were killed and more than 6,000 others were sickened.

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Disaster anniv. concert in Paris

PARIS, France - Japanese conductor Yutaka Sado (C) performs with a student orchestra from Hyogo Prefecture, which was hit by the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake, in a concert at the headquarters of UNESCO in Paris on March 11, 2012, the first anniversary of the massive earthquake and tsunami, to offer condolences to the disaster victims and encourage those affected by it.

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Arson-murder retrial

OSAKA, Japan - Lawyers (L) inform supporters of a decision by the Osaka District Court in Osaka on March 7, 2012, to grant a retrial to the mother of an 11-year-old girl and the woman's common-law husband, who were sentenced to life imprisonment for the girl's murder in Osaka in 1995.

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Bringing fire to Tohoku

IWAKI, Japan - Buddhist monks walk along Nakoso Beach in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 2, 2012, as they brought fire taken from a monument in Hyogo Prefecture to commemorate the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake to the northeastern Japanese city hit by the March 11, 2011, quake and tsunami. The fire will be used for events to mark the first anniversary of the disaster.

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Bringing fire to Tohoku

IWAKI, Japan - Buddhist monks walk along Nakoso Beach in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 2, 2012, as they brought fire taken from a monument in Hyogo Prefecture to commemorate the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake to the northeastern Japanese city hit by the March 11, 2011, quake and tsunami. The fire will be used for events to mark the first anniversary of the disaster.

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Canon Chairman Mitarai to return as president

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in Tokyo on Dec. 22, 2009, shows Canon Inc. Chairman Fujio Mitarai. Canon said Jan. 30, 2012, that the 76-year-old Mitarai, who was president of the company from 1995 to 2006, will return as president on March 29 to help it achieve its targets through 2015 amid uncertain business prospects stemming from the eurozone debt crisis.

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17th anniv. of Great Hanshin quake in Japan

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - People in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, in northeastern Japan, the area hit hardest by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, observe a moment of silence to commemorate the victims of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake at 5:46 a.m. on Jan. 17, 2012, the exact time the quake hit western Japan 17 years ago.

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Kobe students help clear rubble at tsunami-hit area

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Student volunteers from Maiko High School in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, clear away rubble and mud at an elementary school in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 7, 2011. Some 20 students and staff at the high school from the city, which suffered in the Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995, visited the area, devastated by the March 11 tsunami, to help reopen the elementary school.

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Letters from Kobe

ONAGAWA, Japan - A person reads encouragement letters posted at Onagawa Daini Elementary School in the town of Onagawa in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, from fifth-graders at Yamada Elementary School in Kobe, western Japan, on March 21, 2011. A wide area of northeastern and eastern Japan was struck by a devastating earthquake and tsunami on March 11, while Kobe was also devastated by a catastrophic earthquake on Jan. 17, 1995.

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Letters from Kobe

ONAGAWA, Japan - Photo taken March 22, 2011, shows an encouragement letter from a fifth-grader at Yamada Elementary School in Kobe, western Japan, to students at Onagawa Daini Elementary School in the town of Onagawa in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. A wide area of northeastern and eastern Japan was struck by a devastating earthquake and tsunami on March 11, while Kobe was also devastated by a catastrophic earthquake on Jan. 17, 1995.

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Tokyo marks 16th anniv. of sarin gas attack

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Metro Co. employees observe a moment of silence for the victims of the AUM Shinrikyo cult's 1995 sarin nerve gas attacks, at Tokyo Metro subway's Kasumigaseki Station in Tokyo, on the morning of March 20, 2011, the 16th anniversary of the event.

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1995 police chief shooting

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows police officers investigating at the scene where then National Police Agency chief Takaji Kunimatsu was shot and seriously injured in front of his home in Tokyo on March 30, 1995. Tokyo police said in a report on Feb. 18, 2011, that they failed to resolve the case due to a shoddy early investigation. The shooting's statute of limitations expired about a year ago and police have blamed the shooting on the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult.

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Statute of limitations for 1995 shooting runs out

TOKYO, Japan - A signboard seeking information on the 1995 shooting of National Police Agency chief Takaji Kunimatsu is taken away in Tokyo's Arakawa Ward, where the shooting took place, on March 30, 2010. The 15-year statute of limitations for prosecutions in attempted murder cases ran out at midnight on March 29 with police unable to identify a suspect despite carrying out a major investigation suspecting the involvement of the AUM Shinrikyo cult.

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Police says AUM carried out unsolved 1995 police chief shooting

TOKYO, Japan - Goro Aoki, head of the public security department of Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on May 30, 2010, after the 15-year statute of limitations for prosecutions in the 1995 shooting of the then National Police Agency chief Takaji Kunimatsu ran out at midnight on March 29. Aoki said police were unable to build a criminal case on the shooting as they did not obtain sufficient evidence to identify culprits, but added that only AUM Shinrikyo could be considered responsible.

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Widow's film on 1995 subway sarin attack screened

TOKYO, Japan - Shizue Takahashi, head of a group of victims of the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system, speaks prior to a public screening of a film on the fatal attack in Tokyo on March 13, 2010. Takahashi broke new ground as a leader in crime victim relief movements by taping interviews with key persons affected by the attack, which was carried out by members of the defunct AUM Shinrikyo cult.

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Semipublic entity applies for court protection from creditors

OSAKA, Japan - This undated photo shows the Osaka World Trade Center Building in Osaka. A heavily-indebted semipublic Osaka entity that operates the building filed for court protection from creditors March 26 under the corporate rehabilitation law. The company was set up in 1989 through funding by the Osaka Municipal government and private firms, and opened the 256-meter, 55-story skyscraper in the Osaka Bay area in 1995 -- the tallest building in western Japan at the time.

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Sarin attack anniversary observed at Tokyo subway station

TOKYO, Japan - Noboru Ueno, a senior official at Tokyo Metro Co.'s Kasumigaseki Station, lays flowers at an altar set up in the station on March 20 during a ceremony to mark the 14th anniversary of the AUM Shinrikyo cult's deadly 1995 sarin nerve gas attacks. (Pool photo)

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Japan marks 13th anniversary of subway sarin gas attacks

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda autographs a notebook at Tokyo's Kasumigaseki Station on March 20 as Japan marked the 13th anniversary the same day of the deadly 1995 sarin nerve gas attacks on the Tokyo subway system.

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Japan marks 13th anniversary of subway sarin gas attacks

TOKYO, Japan - Shizue Takahashi, the widow of one of the two subway station workers who died in the deadly 1995 sarin nerve gas attacks on the Tokyo subway system, prays for the victims in front of a flower tribute stand at Kasumigaseki Station on March 20 as Japan marked the 13th anniversary of the attacks the same day. (Pool photo)

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Japan marks 13th anniversary of subway sarin gas attacks

TOKYO, Japan - Shizue Takahashi, the widow of one of the two subway station workers who died in the deadly 1995 sarin nerve gas attacks on the Tokyo subway system, speaks to reporters after offering flowers at Kasumigaseki Station on March 20 as Japan marked the 13th anniversary of the attacks the same day.

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Japan marks 13th anniversary of subway sarin gas attacks

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo subway workers offer silent prayers at Kasumigaseki Station on March 20 as Japan marked the 13th anniversary the same day of the deadly 1995 sarin nerve gas attacks on the Tokyo subway system. Top members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, now known as Aleph, released sarin at five stations on three central Tokyo subway lines. The attack took the lives of 12 people, including two subway workers at Kasumigaseki Station, and left over 5,500 sickened.

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U.S. dollar drops to 99 yen level in London

TOKYO, Japan - A board at Tokyo Forex & Ueda Harlow, a foreign exchange broker, shows the U.S. dollar dropping to the 99 yen level in London on March 13. After falling to as low as 100.02 yen during Tokyo trading, the dollar weakened further and hit 99.77 yen at one point in London. The U.S. currency last traded below 100 yen on Nov. 10, 1995, in London.

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12th anniversary of sarin gas attack

TOKYO, Japan - Station employees of Tokyo Metro Co. offer prayers for victims of the 1995 sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system at Kasumigaseki Station in central Tokyo on March 20, the 12th anniversary of the attack.