U.S. envoy Kennedy visits Nagasaki

U.S. envoy Kennedy visits Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (4th from R) poses for photos with three victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki, including Hideo Tsuchiyama (3rd from R), 88, a former president of Nagasaki University, at the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture on Dec. 10, 2013. The ambassador was making her first trip to the southwestern Japanese city since taking up her post in the previous month.

Analysis of space particles in Hayabusa

Analysis of space particles in Hayabusa

SAYO, Japan - Akira Tsuchiyama, a professor at Osaka University, explains equipment that is being used to analyze particles found inside a container of Japan's Hayabusa unmanned space probe, which returned from the asteroid Itokawa, at the large SPring-8 synchrotron radiation facility in Sayo, Hyogo Prefecture, on Jan. 22, 2011.

A-bomb survivor says Pugwash confab lacks concreteness

A-bomb survivor says Pugwash confab lacks concreteness

Photo taken on Oct. 10, 2015, shows Nagasaki atomic-bomb survivor Hideo Tsuchiyama, 90. He said on Nov. 6, 2015, that the outcome of a session of the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs in the southwestern Japan city lacked specific detail. The former Nagasaki University president did appreciate the fact that a call for the abolition of nuclear weapons was issued from the A-bombed city in a Pugwash declaration. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Analysis of space particles in Hayabusa

Analysis of space particles in Hayabusa

SAYO, Japan - Akira Tsuchiyama, a professor at Osaka University, explains equipment that is being used to analyze particles found inside a container of Japan's Hayabusa unmanned space probe, which returned from the asteroid Itokawa, at the large SPring-8 synchrotron radiation facility in Sayo, Hyogo Prefecture, on Jan. 22, 2011. (Kyodo)