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Stage play on 1944 sinking of Tsushima-maru ship

A stage play depicting the August 1944 sinking of the Tsushima-maru civilian ship by a U.S. submarine during World War II is performed at a theater in Naha in the southern Japan island prefecture of Okinawa on Aug. 16, 2025. The ship, carrying a large number of civilians evacuating from an expected U.S. assault on Okinawa, was sunk on its way to Nagasaki Prefecture, leaving nearly 1,500 people, many of them children, dead.

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Stage play on 1944 sinking of Tsushima-maru ship

A stage play depicting the August 1944 sinking of the Tsushima-maru civilian ship by a U.S. submarine during World War II is performed at a theater in Naha in the southern Japan island prefecture of Okinawa on Aug. 16, 2025. The ship, carrying a large number of civilians evacuating from an expected U.S. assault on Okinawa, was sunk on its way to Nagasaki Prefecture, leaving nearly 1,500 people, many of them children, dead.

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Stage play on 1944 sinking of Tsushima-maru ship

A stage play depicting the August 1944 sinking of the Tsushima-maru civilian ship by a U.S. submarine during World War II is performed at a theater in Naha in the southern Japan island prefecture of Okinawa on Aug. 16, 2025. The ship, carrying a large number of civilians evacuating from an expected U.S. assault on Okinawa, was sunk on its way to Nagasaki Prefecture, leaving nearly 1,500 people, many of them children, dead.

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Stage play on 1944 sinking of Tsushima-maru ship

A stage play depicting the August 1944 sinking of the Tsushima-maru civilian ship by a U.S. submarine during World War II is performed at a theater in Naha in the southern Japan island prefecture of Okinawa on Aug. 16, 2025. The ship, carrying a large number of civilians evacuating from an expected U.S. assault on Okinawa, was sunk on its way to Nagasaki Prefecture, leaving nearly 1,500 people, many of them children, dead.

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Stage play on 1944 sinking of Tsushima-maru ship

A stage play depicting the August 1944 sinking of the Tsushima-maru civilian ship by a U.S. submarine during World War II is performed at a theater in Naha in the southern Japan island prefecture of Okinawa on Aug. 16, 2025. The ship, carrying a large number of civilians evacuating from an expected U.S. assault on Okinawa, was sunk on its way to Nagasaki Prefecture, leaving nearly 1,500 people, many of them children, dead.

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Japanese author Osamu Dazai's eldest daughter

Sonoko Tsushima, the eldest daughter of renowned Japanese author Osamu Dazai, speaks at a celebration marking the 109th anniversary of his birth in Goshogawara, Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on June 19, 2018.

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Emperor visits Okinawa museum for victims of Tsushima-Maru incident

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako (C) and their daughter, Princess Aiko, visit the Tsushima-Maru Memorial Museum in Naha in the southern Japan prefecture of Okinawa on June 5, 2025. The museum opened in 2004 in memory of the victims of the August 1944 sinking of the Tsushima-maru civilian ship by a U.S. submarine during World War II, leaving around 1,500 people, many of them children, dead. (Pool photo)

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Emperor visits Okinawa museum for victims of Tsushima-Maru incident

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako (C) and their daughter, Princess Aiko, visit the Tsushima-Maru Memorial Museum in Naha in the southern Japan prefecture of Okinawa on June 5, 2025. The museum opened in 2004 in memory of the victims of the August 1944 sinking of the Tsushima-maru civilian ship by a U.S. submarine during World War II, leaving around 1,500 people, many of them children, dead. (Pool photo)

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Emperor visits Okinawa museum for victims of Tsushima-Maru incident

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako (C) and their daughter, Princess Aiko, visit the Tsushima-Maru Memorial Museum in Naha in the southern Japan prefecture of Okinawa on June 5, 2025. The museum opened in 2004 in memory of the victims of the August 1944 sinking of the Tsushima-maru civilian ship by a U.S. submarine during World War II, leaving around 1,500 people, many of them children, dead. (Pool photo)

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Japanese Imperial family in Okinawa

(from L) Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter Princess Aiko offer flowers at a monument commemorating the victims of the U.S. torpedo attack of the transport ship Tsushima Maru during World War II, in Naha in Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan, on June 5, 2025. The August 1944 attack killed nearly 1,500 evacuees from Okinawa, half of them schoolchildren. (Pool photo)

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Japanese Imperial family in Okinawa

(from 2nd from L) Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter Princess Aiko talk to a survivor of the U.S. torpedo attack on the transport ship Tsushima Maru during World War II on June 5, 2025, in Naha in Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan. The August 1944 attack killed nearly 1,500 evacuees from Okinawa, half of them schoolchildren.

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Japanese Imperial family in Okinawa

(from L) Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter Princess Aiko talk to a survivor of the U.S. torpedo attack on the transport ship Tsushima Maru during World War II on June 5, 2025, in Naha in Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan. The August 1944 attack killed nearly 1,500 evacuees from Okinawa, half of them schoolchildren.

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Japanese Imperial family in Okinawa

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (R), Empress Masako (L) and their daughter Princess Aiko (not seen in picture) bow after offering flowers at a monument commemorating the victims of the U.S. torpedo attack of the transport ship Tsushima Maru during World War II, in Naha in Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan, on June 5, 2025. The August 1944 attack killed nearly 1,500 evacuees from Okinawa, half of them schoolchildren.

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Japanese Imperial family in Okinawa

(from L) Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter Princess Aiko offer flowers at a monument commemorating the victims of the U.S. torpedo attack of the transport ship Tsushima Maru during World War II, in Naha in Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan, on June 5, 2025. The August 1944 attack killed nearly 1,500 evacuees from Okinawa, half of them schoolchildren. (Pool photo)

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Japanese Imperial family in Okinawa

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter Princess Aiko offer flowers at a monument commemorating the victims of the U.S. torpedo attack of the transport ship Tsushima Maru during World War II, in Naha in Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan, on June 5, 2025. The August 1944 attack killed nearly 1,500 evacuees from Okinawa, half of them schoolchildren.

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Japanese Imperial family in Okinawa

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (R), Empress Masako (C) and their daughter Princess Aiko offer flowers at a monument commemorating the victims of the U.S. torpedo attack of the transport ship Tsushima Maru during World War II, in Naha in Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan, on June 5, 2025. The August 1944 attack killed nearly 1,500 evacuees from Okinawa, half of them schoolchildren.

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Stolen Buddha statue to be returned to Japan

SEOSAN, South Korea, May 5 Kyodo - Video taken at Buseok Temple in Seosan, South Korea, on May 10, 2025, shows a 14th-century Buddha statue (R) stolen from Japan's Kannonji temple in 2012. The statue, designated by Japan's Nagasaki Prefecture as a tangible cultural asset, will be returned to the Japanese temple in Tsushima in the southwestern Japan prefecture, on May 12, following a South Korean Supreme Court ruling in 2023 that Kannonji is its rightful owner. (Kyodo)

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Returned Buddhist statue on public display

A 14th-century Buddhist statue recently returned to Japan from South Korea is displayed to the public at a museum on Tsushima Island in Nagasaki Prefecture on May 16, 2025. Stolen from the island's Kannonji temple in 2012, the statue was returned on May 12, 2025, after South Korea's Supreme Court ruled in 2023 that the temple is its rightful owner.

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Returned Buddha statue on public display

A 14th-century Buddha statue recently returned to Japan from South Korea is displayed to the public at a museum on Tsushima Island in Nagasaki Prefecture on May 16, 2025. Stolen from the island's Kannonji temple in 2012, the statue was returned on May 12, 2025, after South Korea's Supreme Court ruled in 2023 that the temple is its rightful owner.

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Stolen Buddha statue returned to Japan

Photo taken on May 15, 2025, at a museum in Tsushima in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Nagasaki shows a 14th-century Buddha statue that was recently returned to Kannonji temple in the city after it was stolen in 2012 and taken to South Korea. The statue, designated by Nagasaki Prefecture as a tangible cultural asset, was unveiled to the media the same day ahead of is public exhibition from May 16.

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Stolen Buddhist statue returned to Japan

TSUSHIMA, Japan, May 12 Kyodo - A 14th-century Buddhist statue of the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva sits at Kannon Temple on Tsushima Island in Nagasaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on May 12, 2025. The statue, stolen in October 2012 and taken to South Korea, was returned to the temple the same day. (Kyodo)

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[Breaking News]Stolen Buddhist statue returned to Japan

TSUSHIMA, Japan, May 12 Kyodo - A 14th-century Buddhist statue of the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva sits at Kannon Temple on Tsushima Island in Nagasaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on May 12, 2025. The statue, stolen in October 2012 and taken to South Korea, was returned to the temple the same day. (Kyodo)

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Stolen Buddhist statue returned to Japan

A box containing the statue of the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, a 14th-century Buddhist statue, is unloaded from a truck as it arrives at Kannon Temple on Tsushima Island in Nagasaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on May 12, 2025. The statue, stolen in October 2012 and taken to South Korea, was returned to the temple.

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Stolen Buddhist statue returned to Japan

A box containing the statue of the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, a 14th-century Buddhist statue, is carried into Kannon Temple on Tsushima Island in Nagasaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on May 12, 2025. The statue, stolen in October 2012 and taken to South Korea, was returned to the temple.

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Stolen Buddhist statue returned to Japan

A truck carries a 14th-century Buddhist statue of the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva upon its arrival on Tsushima Island in Nagasaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, in the early hours of May 12, 2025. The statue, stolen in October 2012 and taken to South Korea, was being returned to Kannon Temple on Tsushima.

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Stolen Buddhist statue returned to Japan

A 14th-century Buddhist statue of the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva sits at Kannon Temple on Tsushima Island in Nagasaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on May 12, 2025. The statue, stolen in October 2012 and taken to South Korea, was returned to the temple the same day.

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Stolen Buddhist statue returned to Japan

A 14th-century Buddhist statue of the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva sits at Kannon Temple on Tsushima Island in Nagasaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on May 12, 2025. The statue, stolen in October 2012 and taken to South Korea, was returned to the temple the same day.

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Stolen Buddhist statue returned to Japan

A 14th-century Buddhist statue of the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva sits at Kannon Temple on Tsushima Island in Nagasaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on May 12, 2025. The statue, stolen in October 2012 and taken to South Korea, was returned to the temple the same day.

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Stolen Buddhist statue returned to Japan

A 14th-century Buddhist statue of the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva sits at Kannon Temple on Tsushima Island in Nagasaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on May 12, 2025. The statue, stolen in October 2012 and taken to South Korea, was returned to the temple the same day.

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Stolen Buddha statue to be returned to Japan

Photo taken at Buseok Temple in Seosan, South Korea, on May 5, 2025, shows a 14th-century Buddha statue (R) stolen from Japan's Kannonji temple in 2012. The statue, designated by Japan's Nagasaki Prefecture as a tangible cultural asset, will be returned to the Japanese temple in Tsushima in the southwestern Japan prefecture, on May 12, following a South Korean Supreme Court ruling in 2023 that Kannonji is its rightful owner.

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Stolen Buddha statue to be returned to Japan

Photo taken at Buseok Temple in Seosan, South Korea, on May 5, 2025, shows a 14th-century Buddha statue (R) stolen from Japan's Kannonji temple in 2012. The statue, designated by Japan's Nagasaki Prefecture as a tangible cultural asset, will be returned to the Japanese temple in Tsushima in the southwestern Japan prefecture, on May 12, following a South Korean Supreme Court ruling in 2023 that Kannonji is its rightful owner.

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Stolen Buddha statue to be returned to Japan

Photo taken at Buseok Temple in Seosan, South Korea, on May 5, 2025, shows a 14th-century Buddha statue (R) stolen from Japan's Kannonji temple in 2012. The statue, designated by Japan's Nagasaki Prefecture as a tangible cultural asset, will be returned to the Japanese temple in Tsushima in the southwestern Japan prefecture, on May 12, following a South Korean Supreme Court ruling in 2023 that Kannonji is its rightful owner.

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80th anniv. of Tsushima Maru sinking

A ceremony is held to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the sinking of Tsushima Maru that was torpedoed by a U.S. submarine during World War II, on Aug. 22, 2024, in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan. The attack killed nearly 1,500 people, half of whom were schoolchildren.

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80th anniv. of Tsushima Maru sinking

Silent prayers are offered during a ceremony commemorating the 80th anniversary of the sinking of Tsushima Maru after it was torpedoed by a U.S. submarine during World War II, on Aug. 22, 2024, in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan. The attack killed nearly 1,500 people, half of whom were schoolchildren. Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki (front, C) and Hanako Jimi (front, R), minister for Okinawa and Northern Territories affairs, attended the ceremony.

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80th anniv. of Tsushima Maru sinking

Silent prayers are offered during a ceremony commemorating the 80th anniversary of the sinking of Tsushima Maru that was torpedoed by a U.S. submarine during World War II, on Aug. 22, 2024, in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan. The attack killed nearly 1,500 people, half of whom were schoolchildren.

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Endangered leopard cat released on western Japan island

A juvenile male leopard cat, an endangered species, looks around upon being released into the wild on a mountain in the southwestern Japan island of Tsushima, Nagasaki Prefecture, on April 22, 2024, after being treated at a protection center for injuries from a car accident and completing reintroduction training.

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Endangered leopard cat released on western Japan island

A juvenile male leopard cat, an endangered species, looks around upon being released into the wild on a mountain in the southwestern Japan island of Tsushima, Nagasaki Prefecture, on April 22, 2024, after being treated at a protection center for injuries from a car accident and completing reintroduction training.

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[Breaking News]U.S. envoy to Japan cleans beach

TSUSHIMA, Japan Kyodo - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel picks up plastic litter during a beach clean-up in Tsushima, Nagasaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Dec. 3, 2023. (Kyodo)

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U.S. envoy to Japan cleans beach

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel (front) picks up plastic litter during a beach clean-up in Tsushima, Nagasaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Dec. 3, 2023.

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U.S. envoy to Japan cleans beach

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel picks up plastic litter during a beach clean-up in Tsushima, Nagasaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Dec. 3, 2023.

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Stolen Buddha statue ownership suit

Setsuryo Tanaka, chief priest of Kanonji temple in Tsushima, Nagasaki Prefecture in southwestern Japan, speaks to the press on Oct. 26, 2023, after South Korea's Supreme Court ruled that a Buddha statue stolen from the Japanese temple in 2012 belongs to the temple, rejecting a South Korean temple's claim to ownership of it.

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Historical ship replica sails from Busan to Japan

A replica of a wooden ship that carried a diplomatic mission from the Joseon dynasty on the Korean Peninsula to Japan's Tokugawa shogunate during the Edo period (17-19 century) departs a port in the southern South Korean city of Busan for Tsushima, Nagasaki Prefecture in southwestern Japan on Aug. 1, 2023. The ship reproduced in 2018 traces the sea route the Korean emissaries took in the old days.

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Historical ship replica sails from Busan to Japan

A replica of a wooden ship that carried a diplomatic mission from the Joseon dynasty on the Korean Peninsula to Japan's Tokugawa shogunate during the Edo period (17-19 century) departs a port in the southern South Korean city of Busan for Tsushima, Nagasaki Prefecture in southwestern Japan on Aug. 1, 2023. The ship reproduced in 2018 traces the sea route the Korean emissaries took in the old days.

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Zoo, noodle maker release instant noodle

FUKUOKA, Japan - A pack of instant noodle dubbed "Yamaneko (wildcat) Ramen," shown in this file photo taken on Nov. 21, 2014, is a product jointly developed by the Fukuoka City Zoological Garden in southwestern Japan and Fujisawa Seimen Co., a noodle maker in Asahikawa on the northernmost main island of Hokkaido. The new product is priced at 117 yen, including 2 yen to be donated to cover feed for the endangered Tsushima Yamaneko leopard cat species raised at the zoo.

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70th anniversary of Tsushima Maru sinking

NAHA, Japan - Survivors and bereaved relatives observe a minute of silence to mourn the 1,485 people who died in the 1944 sinking of the Tsushima Maru, a Japanese ship carrying hundreds of schoolchildren, at a ceremony in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Aug. 22, 2014, the 70th anniversary of the event. Mourners offered silent prayer at 10:12 p.m., the time the first torpedo fired by a U.S. submarine hit the 6,754-ton ship.

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70th anniversary of Tsushima Maru sinking

NAHA, Japan - Survivors and bereaved relatives observe a minute of silence to mourn the 1,485 people who died in the 1944 sinking of the Tsushima Maru, a Japanese ship carrying hundreds of schoolchildren, at a ceremony in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Aug. 22, 2014, the 70th anniversary of the event. Mourners offered silent prayer at 10:12 p.m., the time the first torpedo fired by a U.S. submarine hit the 6,754-ton ship.

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70th anniv. of Tsushima Maru sinking

NAHA, Japan - Survivors and bereaved relatives observe a moment of silence in Naha, in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Okinawa, on Aug. 22, 2014, the 70th anniversary of the sinking of the transport ship Tsushima Maru, which was torpedoed by a U.S. submarine. The attack killed 1,485 people on board.

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70th anniv. of Tsushima Maru sinking

NAHA, Japan - Children release butterflies, a symbol of peace, in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Okinawa, on Aug. 22, 2014, at a ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the 1944 sinking of the Japanese ship "Tsushima Maru" in a U.S. submarine torpedo attack. The attack killed 1,485 people on board.

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70th anniv. of Tsushima Maru sinking

NAHA, Japan - Survivors and bereaved relatives release butterflies, a symbol of peace, in Naha, in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Okinawa, on Aug. 22, 2014, at a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary ceremony of the 1944 sinking of a Japanese ship "Tsushima Maru" in a U.S. submarine torpedo attack. The attack killed 1,485 people on board.

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Prince Akishino family visit exhibit of ill-fated ship

TOKYO, Japan - Prince Akishino, his wife Princess Kiko and their children visit on Aug. 16, 2014, an exhibition in Tokyo displaying documents and drawings about the 1944 Tsushima Maru incident in which a Japanese vessel was torpedoed by a U.S. submarine and sank in waters off Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, leaving nearly 1,500 people dead, including more than 1,000 children. (Pool Photo)