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Southwestern Japan students attend papal audience

Junior high school students from Minamishimabara, Nagasaki Prefecture, pose for a photo after attending a general audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Oct. 23, 2024, clad in costumes simulating four Japanese teenagers sent to Rome as emissaries of a Catholic landlord in the 1580s. The southwestern Japan city, where the 16th-century emissaries studied at a Jesuit school, has sent delegations of local students since 2012, with the 2024 cohort being the first after the coronavirus pandemic.

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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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A-bomb survivors visit Chernobyl

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine - Japanese survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings during World War II return from seeing the No. 4 reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, encased in a so-called sarcophagus, in Ukraine on April 2, 2012. Nine survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki prefectures, who have been designated by the Japanese government as emissaries against nuclear weapons, visited the site of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

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A-bomb survivors visit Chernobyl

PRIPYAT, Ukraine - Japanese survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings during World War II return from visiting an abandoned building in Pripyat, near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, on April 2, 2012. Nine survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki prefectures, who have been designated by the Japanese government as emissaries against nuclear weapons, visited the site of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

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Estonian wrestler Baruto promoted to ozeki

OSAKA, Japan - Estonian sumo wrestler Baruto (C), flanked by his stablemaster Onoe and Onoe's wife, bows as he receives a message from emissaries of the Japan Sumo Association of his promotion to ozeki in the city of Daito, Osaka Prefecture, on March 31, 2010. Baruto became the second European wrestler after Kotooshu from Bulgaria to attain sumo's second-highest rank.

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Mongolian wrestler Hakuho becomes yokozuna

TOKYO, Japan - Ozeki Hakuho of Mongolia (2nd from L), flanked by his stable master Tomoatsu Miyagino (3rd from L) and Miyagino's wife, receives a message from Japan Sumo Association emissaries at his stable May 30 in Tokyo. Hakuho, whose real name is Munkhbat Davaajargal, became the 69th grand champion in sumo history.

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Mongolian wrestler Hakuho becomes yokozuna

TOKYO, Japan - Ozeki Hakuho of Mongolia (C), flanked by his stable master Tomoatsu Miyagino (R) and Miyagino's wife, delivers a message at Miyagino stable May 30 in Tokyo after being told by Japan Sumo Association emissaries of his promotion to sumo's highest rank of yokozuna. Hakuho, whose real name is Munkhbat Davaajargal, became the 69th grand champion in sumo history.

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Bulgarian wrestler Kotooshu promoted to ozeki

FUKUOKA, Japan - Bulgarian sumo wrestler Kotooshu (C) bows at his stable's lodging place in the town of Hisayama, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Nov. 30 as he listens to a message from emissaries of the Japan Sumo Association. The association approved Kotooshu's promotion to ozeki, making him the first European to reach the sport's second-highest rank. At his left is his stable master Sadogatake.

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Mongolian sumo wrestler Asashoryu promoted to ozeki

KANIE, Japan - Mongolian sumo wrestler Asashoryu (2nd from L), flanked his stable master Takasago and Takasago's wife, meets emissaries from the Japan Sumo Association at his stable's lodging house in the town of Kanie, Aichi Prefecture, on July 24 to be informed of his promotion from sekiwake to ozeki, sumo's second-highest rank. Asashoryu is the first Mongolian and fourth foreign wrestler to become an ozeki.

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Bulgarian wrestler Kotooshu promoted to ozeki

FUKUOKA, Japan - Bulgarian sumo wrestler Kotooshu (C) bows at his stable's lodging place in the town of Hisayama, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Nov. 30 as he listens to a message from emissaries of the Japan Sumo Association. The association approved Kotooshu's promotion to ozeki, making him the first European to reach the sport's second-highest rank. At his left is his stable master Sadogatake. (Kyodo)

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Mongolian wrestler Hakuho becomes yokozuna

TOKYO, Japan - Ozeki Hakuho of Mongolia (C), flanked by his stable master Tomoatsu Miyagino (R) and Miyagino's wife, delivers a message at Miyagino stable May 30 in Tokyo after being told by Japan Sumo Association emissaries of his promotion to sumo's highest rank of yokozuna. Hakuho, whose real name is Munkhbat Davaajargal, became the 69th grand champion in sumo history. (Kyodo)

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Mongolian wrestler Hakuho becomes yokozuna

TOKYO, Japan - Ozeki Hakuho of Mongolia (2nd from L), flanked by his stable master Tomoatsu Miyagino (3rd from L) and Miyagino's wife, receives a message from Japan Sumo Association emissaries at his stable May 30 in Tokyo. Hakuho, whose real name is Munkhbat Davaajargal, became the 69th grand champion in sumo history. (Kyodo)

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Japanese Emissaries at the Surrender of Japan, 1945.

Photograph showing Foreign Minister Shigemitsu (on left) and General Yoshi Umezu (on right), the Japanese signatories of the formal surrender of the Japanese Empire, on board USS 'Missouri', 2nd September 1945. Date: 1945

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A-bomb survivors visit Chernobyl

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine - Japanese survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings during World War II return from seeing the No. 4 reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, encased in a so-called sarcophagus, in Ukraine on April 2, 2012. Nine survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki prefectures, who have been designated by the Japanese government as emissaries against nuclear weapons, visited the site of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. (Kyodo)

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A-bomb survivors visit Chernobyl

PRIPYAT, Ukraine - Japanese survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings during World War II return from visiting an abandoned building in Pripyat, near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, on April 2, 2012. Nine survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki prefectures, who have been designated by the Japanese government as emissaries against nuclear weapons, visited the site of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. (Kyodo)

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Estonian wrestler Baruto promoted to ozeki

OSAKA, Japan - Estonian sumo wrestler Baruto (C), flanked by his stablemaster Onoe and Onoe's wife, bows as he receives a message from emissaries of the Japan Sumo Association of his promotion to ozeki in the city of Daito, Osaka Prefecture, on March 31, 2010. Baruto became the second European wrestler after Kotooshu from Bulgaria to attain sumo's second-highest rank. (Kyodo)

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Mongolian sumo wrestler Asashoryu promoted to ozeki

KANIE, Japan - Mongolian sumo wrestler Asashoryu (2nd from L), flanked his stable master Takasago and Takasago's wife, meets emissaries from the Japan Sumo Association at his stable's lodging house in the town of Kanie, Aichi Prefecture, on July 24 to be informed of his promotion from sekiwake to ozeki, sumo's second-highest rank. Asashoryu is the first Mongolian and fourth foreign wrestler to become an ozeki.