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Demonstration For The Pension - Paris

Pensioners rallied in Varenne, against the refusal to raise pensions in line with inflation on January 1, 2025. A delegation should be received at Matignon, on December 3, 2024, in Paris, France. Photo by Denis Prewar/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Demonstration For The Pension - Paris

Pensioners rallied in Varenne, against the refusal to raise pensions in line with inflation on January 1, 2025. A delegation should be received at Matignon, on December 3, 2024, in Paris, France. Photo by Denis Prewar/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Demonstration For The Pension - Paris

Pensioners rallied in Varenne, against the refusal to raise pensions in line with inflation on January 1, 2025. A delegation should be received at Matignon, on December 3, 2024, in Paris, France. Photo by Denis Prewar/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Demonstration For The Pension - Paris

Pensioners rallied in Varenne, against the refusal to raise pensions in line with inflation on January 1, 2025. A delegation should be received at Matignon, on December 3, 2024, in Paris, France. Photo by Denis Prewar/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Demonstration For The Pension - Paris

Pensioners rallied in Varenne, against the refusal to raise pensions in line with inflation on January 1, 2025. A delegation should be received at Matignon, on December 3, 2024, in Paris, France. Photo by Denis Prewar/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Demonstration For The Pension - Paris

Pensioners rallied in Varenne, against the refusal to raise pensions in line with inflation on January 1, 2025. A delegation should be received at Matignon, on December 3, 2024, in Paris, France. Photo by Denis Prewar/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Demonstration For The Pension - Paris

Pensioners rallied in Varenne, against the refusal to raise pensions in line with inflation on January 1, 2025. A delegation should be received at Matignon, on December 3, 2024, in Paris, France. Photo by Denis Prewar/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Demonstration For The Pension - Paris

Pensioners rallied in Varenne, against the refusal to raise pensions in line with inflation on January 1, 2025. A delegation should be received at Matignon, on December 3, 2024, in Paris, France. Photo by Denis Prewar/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Demonstration For The Pension - Paris

Sophie Binet present at the pensioners' rally against the refusal to raise pensions in line with inflation on January 1, 2025. A delegation should be received at Matignon, on December 3, 2024, in Paris, France. Photo by Denis Prewar/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Demonstration For The Pension - Paris

Sophie Binet present at the pensioners' rally against the refusal to raise pensions in line with inflation on January 1, 2025. A delegation should be received at Matignon, on December 3, 2024, in Paris, France. Photo by Denis Prewar/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Demonstration For The Pension - Paris

Sophie Binet present at the pensioners' rally against the refusal to raise pensions in line with inflation on January 1, 2025. A delegation should be received at Matignon, on December 3, 2024, in Paris, France. Photo by Denis Prewar/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Demonstration For The Pension - Paris

Ersilia Soudais, LFI deputy present at the pensioners' rally against the refusal to raise pensions in line with inflation on January 1, 2025. A delegation should be received at Matignon, on December 3, 2024, in Paris, France. Photo by Denis Prewar/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Hiroshima epicenter's prewar landscape restored through CG

HIROSHIMA, Japan - An audiences watches the 60-minute movie, ''Unrecognized Loss: A Message from Hiroshima,'' which uses computer graphics to recreate the Hiroshima City area that became the epicenter of the 1945 atomic bombing, during a screening at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima on Sept. 3, 2010.

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Actress, film producer Mizunoe dies at 94

TOKYO, Japan - This file photo taken in 1976 shows actress-turned-film producer Takiko Mizunoe, who died of old age Nov. 16, 2009, in Kanagawa Prefecture, at age 94, sources close to her said Nov. 21. Mizunoe joined an opera company run by Shochiku Co. in the prewar era. After World War II, she became a film producer, developing the careers of many popular actors and actresses, while appearing on TV entertainment programs.

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School rebuilt with funds from prewar drinking ban to close

KANAZAWA, Japan - Asako Kaneda, 83, looks up at a ''kinshu'' (drinking ban) signboard at her house in Tsubata, Ishikawa Prefecture.

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Letter on Unit 731 found

The photo shows a letter revealing the late founder of Green Cross Corp., Ryoichi Naito, urged that activities of a secret prewar Japanese germ warfare unit in China be concealed from Allied forces immediately after World War II. The letter indicates Naito, a former surgeon with the rank of lieutenant colonel in the defunct Imperial Japanese Army, made the suggestion which was later adopted by leaders of the notorious Unit 731 to hide its activities from Allied investigators.

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Paradise turned to hell after war brought starvation to Palau

Fuyuko Hiroichi, 78, whose parents were among the prewar Japanese settlers in Palau, is pictured in the Pacific island nation's Koror in February 2015. Her mother had no choice but to entrust Hiroichi and her two elder sisters to a native Palauan couple's care during the Pacific War as a lack of food caused her father and two of her siblings to die of malnutrition. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Takizo "Frank" Matsumoto inducted into Japan's Baseball Hall of Fame

Photo taken in 1952 shows Takizo "Frank" Matsumoto, a member of Japan's House of Representatives. Matsumoto, who was influential in promoting prewar exchanges in baseball and other sports, and in resurrecting baseball after the war, was inducted into Japan's Baseball Hall of Fame on Jan. 18, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Former residents find prewar roots in Russian territory

Nozomi Takahashi points to the place on a map where his old family home once stood in Odomari, currently Korsakov in Russia's Far Eastern region of Sakhalin, during an interview in Wakkanai, Hokkaido Prefecture, northern Japan, on June 14, 2015. Takahashi visited his birthplace in Karafuto, currently Sakhalin, for the first time in 76 years with the help of a travel agency in Wakkanai. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Former residents find prewar roots in Russian territory

Nozomi Takahashi speaks enthusiastically on June 16, 2015, about his trip earlier in the month to his birthplace in Karafuto, currently Russia's Far Eastern region of Sakhalin, for the first time in 76 years with the help of a travel agency in Wakkanai, Hokkaido Prefecture, northern Japan. Arrangements by the agency included finding the location of Takahashi's old family home based on Japanese address records. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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A-bomb-surviving bridge in Hiroshima to get back prewar ornaments

A project is under way to restore bronze and metal ornaments to the concrete Enko Bridge in Hiroshima, western Japan, as shown in this photo taken on June 16, 2015. The bronze statue of an eagle on a globe-shaped object, seen in the foreground, was one of the ornaments. The bridge, built in 1926, had all decorations removed for military use during World War II but survived the 1945 atomic bombing. It is expected to regain its erstwhile form by the spring of 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan should follow prewar "world under 1 roof" concept: lawmaker

Junko Mihara, a House of Councillors member from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, speaks at a meeting of the upper house budgetary committee in Tokyo on March 16, 2015. At the meeting, the 50-year-old actress-turned-politician brought up "Hakko Ichiu," a prewar and wartime government slogan used to justify its overseas expansion at the time, and said Japan should act in line with the slogan which represents "values Japan has cherished since its founding." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ministers back use of prewar imperial rescript as teaching material

Children at Tsukamoto Kindergarten in the city of Osaka recite the Imperial Rescript of Education, the 1890 edict used to promote emperor-oriented and militaristic education before and during World War II in Japan, in this file photo taken June 27, 2006. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Woman in news: Journalist pens book on WWII crackdown on teachers

Naoko Satake, a 49-year-old Hokkaido Shimbun journalist, shows on Oct. 6, 2015, her book compiled from an award-winning serial on a crackdown on Hokkaido teachers during World War II. The serial, which was run in the newspaper published in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido and which received this year's JCJ Award of the Japan Congress of Journalists, is based on prison memos of the teachers arrested and detained on charges of violating the prewar Peace Preservation Law by teaching children how to write compositions in a frank manner. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Prewar Japan-Sakhalin cables valuable for historians, nuisance for fishermen

Photo taken in July 2015 shows a monument in Sarufutsu, Hokkaido Prefecture, northern Japan, marking the former landing point of prewar undersea telecommunications cables that used to connect the village and Karafuto, currently Russia's Sakhalin. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Prewar Japan-Sakhalin cables valuable for historians, nuisance for fishermen

A staff member at a history museum in Wakkanai, Hokkaido Prefecture, northern Japan, shows in July 2015 two sections of prewar undersea telecommunications cables that used to connect northern Hokkaido and Karafuto, currently Russian's Sakhalin, that have been recovered from the seabed. The cable fragments were donated to the museum by a subsidiary of NTT Corp., successor to the now-defunct Communications Ministry. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan - Yokohama - Yoshida Bridge and Theatre Street

Japan - Yokohama - Yoshida Bridge and Theatre Street Date: circa 1930s

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Tokyo, Japan - Children's Day Festival - Carp Kites

Children's Day in Japan, held on May 5th. A time for families to celebrate the joy of a child, a tradition celebrated since ancient times. May 5th was traditionally a boy's holiday known as Tango no Sekku, when boys would fly carp-shaped flags and streamers, called koinobori (as depicted on this card). The family flies one carp flag for each son. The eldest son gets the largest flag and the youngest gets the smallest. There is also a black carp flag for the father and a red carp flag for the mother. Date: circa 1910s

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Actress, film producer Mizunoe dies at 94

TOKYO, Japan - This file photo taken in 1976 shows actress-turned-film producer Takiko Mizunoe, who died of old age Nov. 16, 2009, in Kanagawa Prefecture, at age 94, sources close to her said Nov. 21. Mizunoe joined an opera company run by Shochiku Co. in the prewar era. After World War II, she became a film producer, developing the careers of many popular actors and actresses, while appearing on TV entertainment programs. (Kyodo)

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Beppu Hot Springs, Japan - the seashore

Beppu, Japan. The city was founded on April 1, 1924, and is famous for its onsen (hot springs), which are regarded as sacred. Beppu is Japan's onsen capital with the largest volume of hot water in the world apart from Yellowstone in the United States and the largest number of hot spring sources in Japan. Beppu contains nine major geothermal hot spots, which are sometimes referred to as the nine hells of Beppu. This souvenir card depicts local people enjoying the properties of the sand and the sea air of the beach at Beppu. Date: circa 1930

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Hiroshima epicenter's prewar landscape restored through CG

HIROSHIMA, Japan - An audiences watches the 60-minute movie, ''Unrecognized Loss: A Message from Hiroshima,'' which uses computer graphics to recreate the Hiroshima City area that became the epicenter of the 1945 atomic bombing, during a screening at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima on Sept. 3, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Suga refers to controversial Imperial Rescript on Education

At a press conference in Tokyo on April 4, 2017, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga refers to the prewar Imperial Rescript on Education, an 1890 edict that was used to promote emperor-oriented and militaristic education. Suga indicated its use as teaching material should not be barred as long as it is done within the scope of the Constitution and basic education law. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Museum on disputed islands opens in Nemuro

Former Japanese residents of Russian-controlled, Japan-claimed islands off northern Japan visit a newly-opened museum in the northern city of Nomuro on Dec. 26, 2016. The museum displays items, including photographs and panels, on life on the islands in the prewar era. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Museum on disputed islands opens in Nemuro

Former Japanese residents of Russian-controlled, Japan-claimed islands off northern Japan celebrate the opening of a museum in the northern city of Nemuro on Dec. 26, 2016. The museum displays items, including photographs and panels, on life on the islands in the prewar era. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Prewar letter from Hirohito to Greek king found in London

LONDON, Britain - A letter from the late Japanese Emperor Hirohito to Greek King Georgios II, sending congratulations on the marriage of the king's brother Paul in 1938, was recently found in a secondhand book market in London, a book dealer says March 20. The letter, discovered by the dealer specializing in Oriental books, who wishes to be anonymous, bears the golden Imperial crest of a chrysanthemum and is signed by the late Japanese emperor, posthumously called Emperor Showa.

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Veteran singer Hamako Watanabe dies

TOKYO, Japan - Hamako Watanabe, a veteran Japanese singer whose hits include the prewar ''Soshu Yakyoku'' (Suzhou Nocturne), died of a stroke at her Yokohama home Dec. 31, her family said Jan. 11. She was 89. This file photo was taken at a song festival in Tokyo in 1986.

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Letter on Unit 731 found

The photo shows a letter revealing the late founder of Green Cross Corp., Ryoichi Naito, urged that activities of a secret prewar Japanese germ warfare unit in China be concealed from Allied forces immediately after World War II. The letter indicates Naito, a former surgeon with the rank of lieutenant colonel in the defunct Imperial Japanese Army, made the suggestion which was later adopted by leaders of the notorious Unit 731 to hide its activities from Allied investigators. ==Kyodo