CHINA-FUJIAN-FUZHOU-JUNCAO (CN)

CHINA-FUJIAN-FUZHOU-JUNCAO (CN)

(240330) -- FUZHOU, March 30, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Ben Menda Ukii from Papua New Guinea studies in the national engineering research center of Juncao technology at Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University in Fuzhou, southeast China's Fujian Province, March 28, 2024. Juncao, which in Chinese literally means "mushroom" and "grass", can be used, as its name suggests, to grow edible and medicinal mushrooms, as livestock feed or as a green barrier to control soil erosion and stop desertification. Having taken root in over 100 countries and regions around the globe, Juncao has been hailed by the locals as the "Chinese grass" or "grass of happiness." (Xinhua/Lin Shanchuan)

CHINA-FUJIAN-FUZHOU-JUNCAO (CN)

CHINA-FUJIAN-FUZHOU-JUNCAO (CN)

(240330) -- FUZHOU, March 30, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Ben Menda Ukii (R) and Fuke Hako from Papua New Guinea read a book on Juncao technology at Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University in Fuzhou, southeast China's Fujian Province, March 28, 2024. Juncao, which in Chinese literally means "mushroom" and "grass", can be used, as its name suggests, to grow edible and medicinal mushrooms, as livestock feed or as a green barrier to control soil erosion and stop desertification. Having taken root in over 100 countries and regions around the globe, Juncao has been hailed by the locals as the "Chinese grass" or "grass of happiness." (Xinhua/Lin Shanchuan)

Ex-death row inmate campaigns against death penalty

Ex-death row inmate campaigns against death penalty

TOKYO, Japan - Sakae Menda, 82, Japan's first death row inmate to be found innocent in a retrial, campaigns against the death penalty at a news conference in Tokyo on Dec. 17. The United Nations General Assembly is expected to adopt a resolution on Dec. 18 calling for a global moratorium on capital punishment.

Japanese man released from death row speaks against penalty

Japanese man released from death row speaks against penalty

NEW YORK, United States - Sakae Menda (front), a man freed from death row more than 24 years ago in Japan, called on member states at the United Nations Oct. 16 to step up efforts to end the use of the death penalty as punishment.

Ex-death row inmate campaigns against death penalty

Ex-death row inmate campaigns against death penalty

TOKYO, Japan - Sakae Menda, 82, Japan's first death row inmate to be found innocent in a retrial, campaigns against the death penalty at a news conference in Tokyo on Dec. 17. The United Nations General Assembly is expected to adopt a resolution on Dec. 18 calling for a global moratorium on capital punishment. (Kyodo)

Japanese man released from death row speaks against penalty

Japanese man released from death row speaks against penalty

NEW YORK, United States - Sakae Menda (front), a man freed from death row more than 24 years ago in Japan, called on member states at the United Nations Oct. 16 to step up efforts to end the use of the death penalty as punishment. (Kyodo)

Sakae Menda, Japan's 1st person freed from death row

Sakae Menda, Japan's 1st person freed from death row

File photo taken in September 2013 in Tokyo shows Sakae Menda talking about his experience. Menda, the first person in Japan to have been released from death row after winning acquittal in a retrial, died on Dec. 5, 2020, of natural causes at a home for the elderly in Fukuoka Prefecture at the age of 95.

Sakae Menda, Japan's 1st person freed from death row

Sakae Menda, Japan's 1st person freed from death row

File photo taken in July 1983 shows Sakae Menda (C) being released from death row after winning acquittal in a retrial at the Kumamoto District Court's Yatsushiro branch. Menda died on Dec. 5, 2020, of natural causes at a home for the elderly in Fukuoka Prefecture at the age of 95.