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Barbershop with the window frame blown off

A barbershop in Midori-machi (now Nishimidori-machi in Minami Ward) destroyed by the blast, with the window frame blown off and the interior, including mirrors, shattered. It was the home-cum-shop of Yoshito Matsushige, a photographer who took this picture. The barbershop was run by his younger sister and her husband, and Sumie, Matsushige's then 29-year-old wife, who appears in the scene, helped them with the business. Sumie was pregnant at the time and gave birth to their second daughter the following year. His eldest daughter and parents were evacuated to Omishima Island in Ehime Prefecture at the time. (Distance from hypocenter 2800 meters.) Photo: Yoshito Matsushige, Collection: Photo Archives of Japan, Ownership: Chugoku Shimbun, **Editorial use only, commercial use not possible**,Credit: Chugoku Shimbun/Kyodo News Images

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'War orphans' withdraw suit against state

TOKYO, Japan - Sumie Ikeda (L), who heads a group of 40 Japanese who were displaced as children in war, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 13 after withdrawing their lawsuit that demanded the state compensate them for what they see as the government's neglect in repatriating them from China and providing them with sufficient support after their arrival in Japan.

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War-displaced Japanese finally feel at home with new support plan

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) shakes hands with Sumie Ikeda, a representative of war-displaced Japanese nationals, at his office on July 10 after they have accepted the government's new support plan to feel we are Japanese,'' Ikeda said.

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War-displaced Japanese to settle lawsuits

TOKYO, Japan - Sumie Ikeda, representative of formerly war-displaced Japanese nationals, speaks to reporters after her meeting with Yoshiyuki Inoue, secretary to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, at the prime minister's office on July 9. Members of Ikeda's group have decided to accept the government's new support plan for them and settle their lawsuits.

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Former war-displaced back from China appeal Tokyo court ruling

TOKYO, Japan - Sumie Ikeda, one of formerly war-displaced Japanese nationals, speaks at a press conference after filing an appeal with the Tokyo District Court against a court decision rejecting their demand for state compensation for failing after World War II to swiftly repatriate them from China and provide them adequate support.

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WWII survivor keeps wartime memory alive with ink drawings

Kazuo Inamura explains his "sumie" black-ink drawing of a girl in Sapporo in the northernmost Japanese prefecture of Hokkaido on Aug. 14, 2015. The girl died along with about 1,700 others when Soviet submarines attacked three ships carrying Japanese evacuees from the Russian Far East island of Sakhalin on Aug. 22, 1945. Inamura survived the tragedy. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese war orphans visit grave of Chinese foster parents

Sumie Ikeda, a war-displaced Japanese who was left behind in China when she was a child, lays flowers at a common grave honoring Chinese adoptive parents of Japanese war orphans in Harbin in Heilongjiang Province, China, on July 13, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese "war orphans" meet Chinese foster parents in Harbin

Sumie Ikeda (R) hugs a member of an association of Chinese foster parents for Japanese nationals left behind in China after the end of World War II during a meeting in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, northern China, on July 12, 2015. Ikeda, one of such war orphans now living in Japan, heads a nonprofit organization working for the promotion of friendship between the two countries. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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China tells Japanese war orphans friendly ties important

Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao (R) shakes hands with Sumie Ikeda, who leads a group of Japanese people who were left behind in China as children during the closing days of World War II, in Beijing's Great Hall of the People on July 15, 2015. It was the first visit in six years to China by such group of war orphans, raised by Chinese after the war and later resettled in Japan. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Exhibition of photos of Japanese left behind in China

Sumie Ikeda, 70, who was left behind in China as a baby in the aftermath of World War II, speaks at an exhibition of photos about such children and their Chinese foster parents in Tokyo on July 3, 2015. The exhibition, organized by a nonprofit organization headed by Ikeda, began the same day and will run until July 8. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese speech contest for young students held in Nagoya

Sumie Meza, a sixth grader originally from Peru studying at an elementary school in Aichi Prefecture, talks about her future dream at a Japanese speech contest in Nagoya on Nov. 14, 2015. A total of 15 elementary and junior high school students whose mother tongues are not Japanese participated in the event in the central Japanese city. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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War-displaced Japanese to settle lawsuits

TOKYO, Japan - Sumie Ikeda, representative of formerly war-displaced Japanese nationals, speaks to reporters after her meeting with Yoshiyuki Inoue, secretary to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, at the prime minister's office on July 9. Members of Ikeda's group have decided to accept the government's new support plan for them and settle their lawsuits. (Kyodo)

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War-displaced Japanese finally feel at home with new support pla

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) shakes hands with Sumie Ikeda, a representative of war-displaced Japanese nationals, at his office on July 10 after they have accepted the government's new support plan to feel we are Japanese,'' Ikeda said. (Kyodo)

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Former war-displaced back from China appeal Tokyo court ruling

TOKYO, Japan - Sumie Ikeda, one of formerly war-displaced Japanese nationals, speaks at a press conference after filing an appeal with the Tokyo District Court against a court decision rejecting their demand for state compensation for failing after World War II to swiftly repatriate them from China and provide them adequate support. (Kyodo)

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'War orphans' withdraw suit against state

TOKYO, Japan - Sumie Ikeda (L), who heads a group of 40 Japanese who were displaced as children in war, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 13 after withdrawing their lawsuit that demanded the state compensate them for what they see as the government's neglect in repatriating them from China and providing them with sufficient support after their arrival in Japan. (Kyodo)

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Left-behind orphans visit Beijing

Sumie Ikeda (R), a former war-displaced Japanese child in China leading a group of left-behind orphans and their families arranging reunions with their adoptive Chinese parents, meets with Chinese officials in Beijing on June 27, 2017. "We we will be indebted to our adoptive parents for the rest of our lives," Ikeda said. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Left-behind orphans visit Beijing

Sumie Ikeda (R), a former war-displaced Japanese child in China leading a group of left-behind orphans and their families arranging reunions with their adoptive Chinese parents, meets with Chinese officials in Beijing on June 27, 2017. "We will be indebted to our adoptive parents for the rest of our lives," Ikeda said. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo