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Event to mark Russell-Einstein Manifesto's 60th anniversary

Michiji Konuma, a professor emeritus at Keio University, speaks during a ceremony at the exhibition hall of Fukuryu Mmaru No.5, a trawler exposed to radioactive fallout from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, in Yumenoshima Park in Tokyo on July 5, 2015, to mark the 60th anniversary of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto issued against weapons of mass destruction. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Documents of former chief aide to Emperor Hirohito

Photo taken Aug. 19, 2019, in Tokyo shows journals and notebooks of Michiji Tajima, who headed Japan's imperial household office from 1948 to 1953. The documents detailing exchanges between him and Emperor Hirohito, posthumously known as Emperor Showa, show that the emperor wanted to express regret and remorse over World War II in a speech in 1952 but was stopped from doing so by then Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Documents of former chief aide to Emperor Hirohito

Photo taken Aug. 19, 2019, in Tokyo shows journals and notebooks of Michiji Tajima, who headed Japan's imperial household office from 1948 to 1953. The documents detailing exchanges between him and Emperor Hirohito, posthumously known as Emperor Showa, show that the emperor wanted to express regret and remorse over World War II in a speech in 1952 but was stopped from doing so by then Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese physicist Konuma long involved in Pugwash confab

Physicist Michiji Konuma, an 84-year-old former Pugwash Council member, speaks in an interview on Sept. 11, 2015. The 61st Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs was held in Nagasaki in November 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Documents of former chief aide to Emperor Hirohito

Photo taken Aug. 19, 2019, in Tokyo shows the Japanese word for "regret" (center in 2nd line from L) in a journal written by Michiji Tajima, who headed Japan's imperial household office from 1948 to 1953. The journal entry, dated Feb. 20, 1952, shows that Emperor Hirohito, posthumously known as Emperor Showa, wanted to express regret and remorse over World War II in a speech in 1952 but was stopped from doing so by then Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Documents of former chief aide to Emperor Hirohito

Photo taken Aug. 19, 2019, in Tokyo shows the Japanese word for "regret" in a journal written by Michiji Tajima, who headed Japan's imperial household office from 1948 to 1953. The journal entry, dated Feb. 20, 1952, shows that Emperor Hirohito, posthumously known as Emperor Showa, wanted to express regret and remorse over World War II in a speech in 1952 but was stopped from doing so by then Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Former chief aide to Japan Emperor Hirohito

Undated photo shows Michiji Tajima, who headed Japan's imperial household office from 1948 to 1953. His 18 notebooks, disclosed on Aug. 19, 2019, detail exchanges between him and Emperor Hirohito, posthumously known as Emperor Showa. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Documents of former chief aide to Emperor Hirohito

Photo taken Aug. 19, 2019, in Tokyo shows journals and notebooks of Michiji Tajima, who headed Japan's imperial household office from 1948 to 1953. The documents detailing exchanges between him and Emperor Hirohito, posthumously known as Emperor Showa, show that the emperor wanted to express regret and remorse over World War II in a speech in 1952 but was stopped from doing so by then Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nobel laureate Hideki Yukawa's diary

Keio University Professor Emeritus Michiji Konuma holds a diary written by Hideki Yukawa, a theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate, around the end of World War II in Kyoto on Dec. 21, 2017. The diary, Kyoto University disclosed to the public the same day, contains an entry confirming Yukawa's attendance at a conference held in June 1945 to study nuclear weapons. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo