Painter/poet Takeshita's unknown paintings found

Painter/poet Takeshita's unknown paintings found

TOKYO, Japan - A curator introduces two recently found paintings of renowned Japanese painter and poet Yumeji Takeshita (1884-1934) at the Takeshita Yumeji Museum in Tokyo on Sept. 16, 2014. Takeshita reportedly gave the paintings to a Japanese expatriate in Germany during a trip to Europe from 1932 to 1933.

Court rejects damages suit by 3 Chinese war survivors

Court rejects damages suit by 3 Chinese war survivors

TOKYO, Japan - Yang Baoshan, one of three Chinese plaintiffs who filed a suit seeking Japanese government compensation for a massacre by the Imperial Japanese Army in China's Liaoning Province in 1932, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on June 28 after their suit was rejected by the Tokyo District Court the same day. The three -- two men and a woman who were between 4 and 9 years old at the time -- claim they lost their family members and were subjected to Japanese army brutality in a suburb of the city of Fushun on Sept. 16, 1932.

Court rejects damages suit by 3 Chinese war survivors

Court rejects damages suit by 3 Chinese war survivors

TOKYO, Japan - Yang Baoshan, one of three Chinese plaintiffs who filed a suit seeking Japanese government compensation for a massacre by the Imperial Japanese Army in China's Liaoning Province in 1932, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on June 28 after their suit was rejected by the Tokyo District Court the same day. The three -- two men and a woman who were between 4 and 9 years old at the time -- claim they lost their family members and were subjected to Japanese army brutality in a suburb of the city of Fushun on Sept. 16, 1932.