Bodies removed

Bodies removed

Police officers load a bag containing the decomposed bodies of three men wearing what appeared to be North Korean military uniforms into a police vehicle at Ohama Police Station in Takahama, Fukui Prefecture on Dec. 26. Police plan to conduct an autopsy on the bodies, which were washed ashore at Takahama on Dec. 25.

Eight Days of Turbulence: The Natural Approval of the New Security Treaty

A wave of 300,000 people demonstrate at the National Diet; the treaty is naturally enacted on June 19; 　a general strike by the General Council of Trade Unions on June 22. The LDP tries to open the meeting and the Socialist Party blocks it; 300,000 demonstrators fill the area around the Diet; Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi returns home exhausted when the new security treaty is naturally passed; the streets are littered with scraps of paper; Ike welcomes the South Koreans; the LDP secretly holds a meeting of the House of Councillors and the security treaty is passed in a few minutes; the 19th round of united action and all urban traffic is stopped. The film's shooting date is unknown, release date: June 17, 1960.

Quilts by Canadian, Japanese kids to cheer up Tohoku

Quilts by Canadian, Japanese kids to cheer up Tohoku

TOKYO, Japan - Linda Ohama, a Japanese-Canadian artist who initiated a quilt project to cheer up children in the Tohoku area affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, explains to members of the press about messages on pieces of cloth drawn up by children in both countries at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo on Oct. 13, 2011. (Kyodo)

Site of the National Industrial Exhibition

Site of the National Industrial Exhibition

The Fifth National Industrial Exhibition was held for about five months from March 1903. The location of the exhibition was Tennoji park in Osaka city and Ohama Park (Sakai city), and more than 4 million people came to see the exhibition.==Date:1903, Place:Osaka, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number46‐74‐0]

Bodies removed

Bodies removed

Police officers Dec. 26 load a bag containing the decomposed bodies of three men wearing what appeared to be North Korean military uniforms into a police vehicle at Ohama Police Station in Takahama, Fukui Prefecture. Police plan to conduct an autopsy on the bodies, which were washed ashore at Takahama on Dec. 25. ==Kyodo