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Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike (far L) talks to Japan's Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter Aiko (far R) on Oct. 23, 2025, at the Tokyo metropolitan memorial hall, which honors the estimated 100,000 people killed during U.S. air raids on the capital on the night of March 10, 1945, toward the end of World War II. (Pool photo)

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Emperor visits WWII victim memorial hall in Tokyo

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako (2nd from R) and their daughter, Princess Aiko, meet with a bereaved family member at the Tokyo metropolitan memorial hall on Oct. 23, 2025. It honors an estimated 100,000 people who were killed in a single night during U.S. air raids toward the end of World War II on March 10, 1945. (Pool photo)

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Emperor visits WWII victim memorial hall in Tokyo

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako (2nd from R) and their daughter, Princess Aiko, meet with a bereaved family member at the Tokyo metropolitan memorial hall on Oct. 23, 2025. It honors an estimated 100,000 people who were killed in a single night during U.S. air raids toward the end of World War II on March 10, 1945. (Pool photo)

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Emperor visits WWII victim memorial hall in Tokyo

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako (C) and their daughter, Princess Aiko, offer flowers at the Tokyo metropolitan memorial hall on Oct. 23, 2025. It honors an estimated 100,000 people who were killed in a single night during U.S. air raids toward the end of World War II on March 10, 1945. (Pool photo)

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Emperor visits WWII victim memorial hall in Tokyo

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako (C) and their daughter, Princess Aiko, bow at the Tokyo metropolitan memorial hall on Oct. 23, 2025. It honors an estimated 100,000 people who were killed in a single night during U.S. air raids toward the end of World War II on March 10, 1945. (Pool photo)

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A-bomb memorial monument in Hiroshima

Photo taken in Hiroshima on March 27, 2025, shows a monument set up on the rooftop of the newly completed building housing Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co. in memory of their employees killed in the August 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japan city.

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CROWN PRINCESS ESTONIAN SCHOOL 80TH ANNIVERSARY

Crown Princess Victoria arrives as the Estonian School in Stockholm, founded on March 15, 1945, celebrates its 80th anniversary with a school concert at the Stockholm Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden on march 13, 2025.Photo: Jonas Ekströmer / TT / Code 10030

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CROWN PRINCESS ESTONIAN SCHOOL 80TH ANNIVERSARY

Crown Princess Victoria arrives as the Estonian School in Stockholm, founded on March 15, 1945, celebrates its 80th anniversary with a school concert at the Stockholm Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden on march 13, 2025.Photo: Jonas Ekströmer / TT / Code 10030

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CROWN PRINCESS ESTONIAN SCHOOL 80TH ANNIVERSARY

Crown Princess Victoria is received by principal Piia Paljak, Leane Riiser and Mimmi Kask when the Estonian School in Stockholm, founded on March 15, 1945, celebrates its 80th anniversary with a school concert in Stockholm's concerthall in Stockholm, Sweden on march 13, 2025.Photo: Jonas Ekströmer / TT / Code 10030

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CROWN PRINCESS ESTONIAN SCHOOL 80TH ANNIVERSARY

Crown Princess Victoria and principal Piia Paljak arrive as the Estonian School in Stockholm, founded on March 15, 1945, celebrates its 80th anniversary with a school concert in Stockholm's Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden on march 13, 2025.Photo: Jonas Ekströmer / TT / Code 10030

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CROWN PRINCESS ESTONIAN SCHOOL 80TH ANNIVERSARY

Crown Princess Victoria is received by Leane Riiser, Mimmi Kask and principal Piia Paljak when the Estonian School in Stockholm, founded on March 15, 1945, celebrates its 80th anniversary with a school concert in Stockholm's Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden on march 13, 2025.Photo: Jonas Ekströmer / TT / Code 10030

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CROWN PRINCESS ESTONIAN SCHOOL 80TH ANNIVERSARY

Crown Princess Victoria and principal Piia Paljak arrive as the Estonian School in Stockholm, founded on March 15, 1945, celebrates its 80th anniversary with a school concert in Stockholm's Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden on march 13, 2025.Photo: Jonas Ekströmer / TT / Code 10030

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CROWN PRINCESS ESTONIAN SCHOOL 80TH ANNIVERSARY

Crown Princess Victoria arrives as the Estonian School in Stockholm, founded on March 15, 1945, celebrates its 80th anniversary with a school concert at the Stockholm Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden on march 13, 2025.Photo: Jonas Ekströmer / TT / Code 10030

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CROWN PRINCESS ESTONIAN SCHOOL 80TH ANNIVERSARY

Crown Princess Victoria arrives as the Estonian School in Stockholm, founded on March 15, 1945, celebrates its 80th anniversary with a school concert at the Stockholm Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden on march 13, 2025.Photo: Jonas Ekströmer / TT / Code 10030

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CROWN PRINCESS ESTONIAN SCHOOL 80TH ANNIVERSARY

Crown Princess Victoria attends when the Estonian School in Stockholm, founded on March 15, 1945, celebrates its 80th anniversary with a school concert at the Stockholm Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden on march 13, 2025.Photo: Jonas Ekströmer / TT / Code 10030

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CROWN PRINCESS ESTONIAN SCHOOL 80TH ANNIVERSARY

Crown Princess Victoria attends when the Estonian School in Stockholm, founded on March 15, 1945, celebrates its 80th anniversary with a school concert at the Stockholm Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden on march 13, 2025.Photo: Jonas Ekströmer / TT / Code 10030

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U.N. meeting on banning nuclear weapons

Jiro Hamasumi, who was exposed to the 1945 Hiroshima atomic bombing in his mother's womb, delivers a speech at the third meeting of the state parties to the 2021 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons at the U.N. headquarters in New York on March 3, 2025.

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U.N. meeting on banning nuclear weapons

Participants at the third meeting of the state parties to the 2021 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons applaud after a speech by Jiro Hamasumi, who was exposed to the 1945 Hiroshima atomic bombing in his mother's womb, at the U.N. headquarters in New York on March 3, 2025.

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U.N. meeting on banning nuclear weapons

People in spectator seating during the third meeting of the state parties to the 2021 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons applaud after a speech by Jiro Hamasumi, who was exposed to radiation from the 1945 Hiroshima atomic bombing in his mother's womb, at the U.N. headquarters in New York on March 3, 2025.

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U.N. meeting on banning nuclear weapons

Participants at the third meeting of the state parties to the 2021 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons listen to a speech by Jiro Hamasumi, who was exposed to the 1945 Hiroshima atomic bombing in his mother's womb, at the U.N. headquarters in New York on March 3, 2025.

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U.N. meeting on banning nuclear weapons

Jiro Hamasumi, who was exposed to the 1945 Hiroshima atomic bombing in his mother's womb, delivers a speech at the third meeting of the state parties to the 2021 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons at the U.N. headquarters in New York on March 3, 2025.

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Cenotaph honoring Okinawa mass suicide victims during WWII

Photo taken on Tokashiki Island in Tokashiki in Okinawa, southern Japan, on March 28, 2024, shows a cenotaph dedicated to local villagers who took their own lives in a mass suicide following the landing of U.S. soldiers in March 1945 during World War II.

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XINHUA PHOTOS OF THE DAY

(240401) -- BEIJING, April 1, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Namgyal plays the accordion with his granddaughter aside at his home in Doilungdeqen District of Lhasa, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, March 13, 2024. Born in 1945, Namgyal grew up in what is now Doilungdeqen District in Lhasa. Namgyal recalled that his worst memory was the rain, which would seep through the leaky roof and wet his only suit of clothing, leaving him to continue working for the serf owner the next day in soaked clothes. After the democratic reform in 1959, life of Namgyal and his family totally changed. The family of four received dwellings, livestock and farmland. Namgyal learned to play the accordion and became a member of the Doilungdeqen art troupe. He later had the opportunities to perform in Beijing and many other cities in China. The four children of Namgyal earned successful careers and all of his eight grandchildren received good education and made their ways into universities. "I couldn't imagine a better life,

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(InXizang)CHINA-XIZANG-FORMER SERF-NEW LIFE-NAMGYAL (CN)

(240331) -- LHASA, March 31, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A granddaughter of Namgyal offers him a bowl of nuts at his home in Doilungdeqen District of Lhasa, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, March 13, 2024. Born in 1945, Namgyal grew up in what is now Doilungdeqen District in Lhasa. Namgyal recalled that his worst memory was the rain, which would seep through the leaky roof and wet his only suit of clothing, leaving him to continue working for the serf owner the next day in soaked clothes. After the democratic reform in 1959, life of Namgyal and his family totally changed. The family of four received dwellings, livestock and farmland. Namgyal learned to play the accordion and became a member of the Doilungdeqen art troupe. He later had the opportunities to perform in Beijing and many other cities in China. The four children of Namgyal earned successful careers and all of his eight grandchildren received good education and made their ways into universities. "I couldn't imagine a better life," Nam

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(InXizang)CHINA-XIZANG-FORMER SERF-NEW LIFE-NAMGYAL (CN)

(240331) -- LHASA, March 31, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Namgyal (2nd L) and family members pose for a photo at his home in Doilungdeqen District of Lhasa, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, March 13, 2024. Born in 1945, Namgyal grew up in what is now Doilungdeqen District in Lhasa. Namgyal recalled that his worst memory was the rain, which would seep through the leaky roof and wet his only suit of clothing, leaving him to continue working for the serf owner the next day in soaked clothes. After the democratic reform in 1959, life of Namgyal and his family totally changed. The family of four received dwellings, livestock and farmland. Namgyal learned to play the accordion and became a member of the Doilungdeqen art troupe. He later had the opportunities to perform in Beijing and many other cities in China. The four children of Namgyal earned successful careers and all of his eight grandchildren received good education and made their ways into universities. "I couldn't imagine a better life," Namg

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(InXizang)CHINA-XIZANG-FORMER SERF-NEW LIFE-NAMGYAL (CN)

(240331) -- LHASA, March 31, 2024 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on March 13, 2024 shows a portrait of Namgyal. Born in 1945, Namgyal grew up in what is now Doilungdeqen District in Lhasa. Namgyal recalled that his worst memory was the rain, which would seep through the leaky roof and wet his only suit of clothing, leaving him to continue working for the serf owner the next day in soaked clothes. After the democratic reform in 1959, life of Namgyal and his family totally changed. The family of four received dwellings, livestock and farmland. Namgyal learned to play the accordion and became a member of the Doilungdeqen art troupe. He later had the opportunities to perform in Beijing and many other cities in China. The four children of Namgyal earned successful careers and all of his eight grandchildren received good education and made their ways into universities. "I couldn't imagine a better life," Namgyal said. (Xinhua/Jigme Dorje)

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(InXizang)CHINA-XIZANG-FORMER SERF-NEW LIFE-NAMGYAL (CN)

(240331) -- LHASA, March 31, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Namgyal waters plants at his home in Doilungdeqen District of Lhasa, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, March 13, 2024. Born in 1945, Namgyal grew up in what is now Doilungdeqen District in Lhasa. Namgyal recalled that his worst memory was the rain, which would seep through the leaky roof and wet his only suit of clothing, leaving him to continue working for the serf owner the next day in soaked clothes. After the democratic reform in 1959, life of Namgyal and his family totally changed. The family of four received dwellings, livestock and farmland. Namgyal learned to play the accordion and became a member of the Doilungdeqen art troupe. He later had the opportunities to perform in Beijing and many other cities in China. The four children of Namgyal earned successful careers and all of his eight grandchildren received good education and made their ways into universities. "I couldn't imagine a better life," Namgyal said. (Xinhua/Jigme Dorje)

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(InXizang)CHINA-XIZANG-FORMER SERF-NEW LIFE-NAMGYAL (CN)

(240331) -- LHASA, March 31, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Namgyal waters plants at his home in Doilungdeqen District of Lhasa, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, March 13, 2024. Born in 1945, Namgyal grew up in what is now Doilungdeqen District in Lhasa. Namgyal recalled that his worst memory was the rain, which would seep through the leaky roof and wet his only suit of clothing, leaving him to continue working for the serf owner the next day in soaked clothes. After the democratic reform in 1959, life of Namgyal and his family totally changed. The family of four received dwellings, livestock and farmland. Namgyal learned to play the accordion and became a member of the Doilungdeqen art troupe. He later had the opportunities to perform in Beijing and many other cities in China. The four children of Namgyal earned successful careers and all of his eight grandchildren received good education and made their ways into universities. "I couldn't imagine a better life," Namgyal said. (Xinhua/Jigme Dorje)

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(InXizang)CHINA-XIZANG-FORMER SERF-NEW LIFE-NAMGYAL (CN)

(240331) -- LHASA, March 31, 2024 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on March 13, 2024 shows the ID card of Namgyal. Born in 1945, Namgyal grew up in what is now Doilungdeqen District in Lhasa. Namgyal recalled that his worst memory was the rain, which would seep through the leaky roof and wet his only suit of clothing, leaving him to continue working for the serf owner the next day in soaked clothes. After the democratic reform in 1959, life of Namgyal and his family totally changed. The family of four received dwellings, livestock and farmland. Namgyal learned to play the accordion and became a member of the Doilungdeqen art troupe. He later had the opportunities to perform in Beijing and many other cities in China. The four children of Namgyal earned successful careers and all of his eight grandchildren received good education and made their ways into universities. "I couldn't imagine a better life," Namgyal said. (Xinhua/Jigme Dorje)

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(InXizang)CHINA-XIZANG-FORMER SERF-NEW LIFE-NAMGYAL (CN)

(240331) -- LHASA, March 31, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Namgyal plays the accordion with his granddaughter aside at his home in Doilungdeqen District of Lhasa, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, March 13, 2024. Born in 1945, Namgyal grew up in what is now Doilungdeqen District in Lhasa. Namgyal recalled that his worst memory was the rain, which would seep through the leaky roof and wet his only suit of clothing, leaving him to continue working for the serf owner the next day in soaked clothes. After the democratic reform in 1959, life of Namgyal and his family totally changed. The family of four received dwellings, livestock and farmland. Namgyal learned to play the accordion and became a member of the Doilungdeqen art troupe. He later had the opportunities to perform in Beijing and many other cities in China. The four children of Namgyal earned successful careers and all of his eight grandchildren received good education and made their ways into universities. "I couldn't imagine a better life,"

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Memorial service for Koreans killed in March 1945 air raids on Tokyo

A memorial ceremony for Koreans killed in the March 10, 1945, U.S. air raids on Tokyo is held in the Japanese capital on March 18, 2023, about a week after the 78th anniversary of the incident in which an estimated 100,000 people died in a single night during World War II. About 10 percent of the victims were said to be Koreans.

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Memorial service for Koreans killed in March 1945 air raids on Tokyo

A memorial ceremony for Koreans killed in the March 10, 1945, U.S. air raids on Tokyo is held in the Japanese capital on March 18, 2023, about a week after the 78th anniversary of the incident in which an estimated 100,000 people died in a single night during World War II. About 10 percent of the victims were said to be Koreans.

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Memorial service for Koreans killed in March 1945 air raids on Tokyo

A memorial ceremony for Koreans killed in the March 10, 1945, U.S. air raids on Tokyo is held in the Japanese capital on March 18, 2023, about a week after the 78th anniversary of the incident in which an estimated 100,000 people died in a single night during World War II. About 10 percent of the victims were said to be Koreans.

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Okinawa commemorates victims of 1945 Battle of Okinawa

ITOMAN, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy offers flowers at the Peace Memorial Park in Itoman, Japan, on June 23, 2014, to mark the anniversary of the end of the Battle of Okinawa in 1945. Some 200,000 people died in the Battle of Okinawa that started March 26, 1945 and ended on June 23, 1945.

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Okinawa commemorates victims of 1945 Battle of Okinawa

ITOMAN, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe offers flowers at the Peace Memorial Park in Itoman, Japan, on June 23, 2014, to mark the anniversary of the end of the Battle of Okinawa in 1945. Some 200,000 people died in the Battle of Okinawa that started March 26, 1945 and ended June 23, 1945.

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Okinawa commemorates victims of 1945 Battle of Okinawa

ITOMAN, Japan - Bereaved families of those who died during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa pray for the victims in front of the Cornerstone of Peace memorial in Itoman, Japan, on June 23, 2014. Some 200,000 people died in the Battle of Okinawa, which started March 26, 1945, and ended on June 23 that year.

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Okinawa commemorates victims of 1945 Battle of Okinawa

ITOMAN, Japan - A woman wipes her tears in front of the Cornerstone of Peace memorial in Itoman, Japan, on June 23, 2014, to mark the anniversary of the end of the 1945 Battle of Okinawa. Some 200,000 people died in the Battle of Okinawa which started March 26, 1945, and ended on June 23 that year.

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Exhibition to honor antinuke Austrian writer

HIROSHIMA, Japan - The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima, western Japan, opens an exhibition Feb. 15, 2013, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Robert Jungk, an Austrian writer known for his efforts to focus international attention on the devastation caused by the 1945 atomic bombing of the city. The exhibition is due to run through March 28, 2013.

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Peace marchers arrive in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A group of some 400 peace marchers arrived at Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on Aug. 4 ahead of the 62nd anniversary of the 1945 U.S. bombing of the city Aug. 6. The march started in Tokyo on May 6, calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons.

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Monument on Miyagi mountain for B-29 crashes

SENDAI, Japan - The "Cenotaph of Fubo," built for 34 U.S. crew members who died in crashes of three B-29 bombers on the ridge of Mt. Fubo on March 10, 1945, the day of the so-called Great Tokyo Air Raids, is seen on Aug. 2, 2014, in Shiraishi, Miyagi Prefecture.

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Man shows photos of B-29s crashed in 1945

SENDAI, Japan - Hiroshi Kawamata speaks in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, on Aug. 3, 2014, about his experience with showing pictures of U.S. B-29 bombers taken four months after they crashed on the ridge of Mt. Fubo in Shiraishi, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 10, 1945, the day of the so-called Great Tokyo Air Raids. Residents in the city are planning to hold a memorial service for 34 crew members killed in the three B-29 crashes, in 2015, the 70th anniversary of the end of the Pacific War.

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A-bomb survivor publishes book, warns of radiation damage

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Mitsuo Kodama, who survived the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima from within a 1-kilometer radius from the hypocenter and was exposed to an extremely high dosage of approximately 4,600 millisieverts of radiation, poses in front of the Atomic Dome in Hiroshima with his book "Hibakusha, Hiroshima karano Message" (Hibakusha, Message from Hiroshima) on March 25, 2014.

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S. Korean consul in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Sin Hyong Gun (L), the South Korean consul general in Hiroshima, offers a prayer in front of the cenotaph for Korean victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the city, at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on March 26, 2014. The 60-year-old diplomat -- a second-generation "hibakusha" survivor of the atomic bombing -- ended his stint as consul general the same day.

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Shops in Crimea remain closed

YALTA, Ukraine - Many souvenir shops remain closed at the Livadia Palace, the venue for the Yalta Conference in 1945, on the Crimean peninsula in southern Ukraine, on March 22, 2014. The number of tourists has declined since Russia's military deployment to the peninsula.

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Letters by Hiroshima governor around 1945 A-bombing found

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken on March 17, 2014, shows four letters written between June and October 1945 by Genshin Takano (1895-1969), the governor of Hiroshima when the United States dropped the atomic bomb on the Japanese city on Aug. 6, 1945. The letters were discovered at the Hiroshima Prefectural Archives.

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Ex-student workers seek to preserve A-bombed factory

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A factory in Hiroshima built by the now defunct Imperial Japanese Army in 1913 to make military clothes, among other things, is pictured on March 16, 2014. Former student workers who were mobilized to work at the factory during World War II and others launched an organization the same day to seek preservation of the building that survived the 1945 atomic bombing of the western Japan city.

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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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Japanese A-bomb survivors to meet South Korean sufferers

NAGASAKI, Japan - Katsuhiko Ota, a member of an association promoting exchanges between Japanese and Korean survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, speaks to reporters on March 13, 2014, in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, ahead of a visit to Seoul later in the month for a meeting with South Korean A-bomb sufferers.

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69th anniversary of Tokyo air raids

TOKYO, Japan - A memorial service is held at Tokyo Memorial Hall in Tokyo's Sumida Ward on March 10, 2014, the 69th anniversary of the 1945 U.S. air raids on the Japanese capital. One estimate puts the death toll from the predawn air raids, involving more than 300 U.S. B-29 bombers, at around 100,000.

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69th anniversary of Tokyo air raids

TOKYO, Japan - A memorial service is held at Tokyo Memorial Hall in Tokyo's Sumida Ward on March 10, 2014, the 69th anniversary of the 1945 U.S. air raids on the Japanese capital. One estimate puts the death toll from the predawn air raids, involving more than 300 U.S. B-29 bombers, at around 100,000.