5 Nagasaki teens deliver antinuclear petition to U.N.

5 Nagasaki teens deliver antinuclear petition to U.N.

GENEVA, Switzerland - Five Japanese high school students from Nagasaki pose for photos after listening to a debate at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva on Aug. 18. They later handed a petition of signatures and paper cranes calling for nuclear disarmament to a conference official. They are (from L to R) Shiro Yamada, Natsuko Kobiyama, Ayumi Hirayu, Shun Nishizako and Michiru Nakamura.

Sculpture to commemorate 2 train heroes set near station

Sculpture to commemorate 2 train heroes set near station

TOKYO, Japan - A sculpture is unveiled near JR Shin-Okubo Station in Tokyo on March 16 to commemorate a South Korean student and a Japanese photographer killed by a rush-hour train in January while trying to save a drunken man from the tracks. The granite sculpture, which depicts a gate, was created by Mitsuzo Yamada, a 55-year-old artist in Sakura, Chiba Prefecture, to honor the self-sacrifice of South Korean student Lee Su Hyon, 26, and Shiro Sekine, a 47-year-old photographer from Yokohama.

5 Nagasaki teens deliver antinuclear petition to U.N.

5 Nagasaki teens deliver antinuclear petition to U.N.

GENEVA, Switzerland - Five Japanese high school students from Nagasaki pose for photos after listening to a debate at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva on Aug. 18. They later handed a petition of signatures and paper cranes calling for nuclear disarmament to a conference official. They are (from L to R) Shiro Yamada, Natsuko Kobiyama, Ayumi Hirayu, Shun Nishizako and Michiru Nakamura. (Kyodo)

Reconstruction of disaster-hit northeastern Japan city

Reconstruction of disaster-hit northeastern Japan city

Natori Mayor Shiro Yamada offers flowers on March 30, 2020, at a cenotaph set up to honor victims of the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture. The mayor of the northeastern Japan city said the same day that reconstruction of the city's infrastructure, including public apartment houses for displaced people, has been completed about nine years after the disaster, which left nearly 1,000 people dead in the city. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Sculpture to commemorate 2 train heroes set near station

Sculpture to commemorate 2 train heroes set near station

TOKYO, Japan - A sculpture is unveiled near JR Shin-Okubo Station in Tokyo on March 16 to commemorate a South Korean student and a Japanese photographer killed by a rush-hour train in January while trying to save a drunken man from the tracks. The granite sculpture, which depicts a gate, was created by Mitsuzo Yamada, a 55-year-old artist in Sakura, Chiba Prefecture, to honor the self-sacrifice of South Korean student Lee Su Hyon, 26, and Shiro Sekine, a 47-year-old photographer from Yokohama.