Ex-student workers seek to preserve A-bombed factory

Ex-student workers seek to preserve A-bombed factory

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A factory in Hiroshima built by the now defunct Imperial Japanese Army in 1913 to make military clothes, among other things, is pictured on March 16, 2014. Former student workers who were mobilized to work at the factory during World War II and others launched an organization the same day to seek preservation of the building that survived the 1945 atomic bombing of the western Japan city.

Ex-student nurse talks about Battle of Okinawa experience

Ex-student nurse talks about Battle of Okinawa experience

Fumiko Nashiro who served as a student nurse during the Battle of Okinawa in World War II stands by a memorial stone monument, erected at the entrance of an underground hideout where she and others took shelter, in Itoman, Okinawa Prefecture, on Nov. 23, 2014. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Ex-student nurse talks about Battle of Okinawa experience

Ex-student nurse talks about Battle of Okinawa experience

Fumiko Nashiro who served as a student nurse during the Battle of Okinawa in World War II explains her experience in the underground hideout, where she and other people found shelter during the war, in Itoman, Okinawa Prefecture, on Nov. 23, 2014. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Ex-student looks at picture diaries drawn in late 1945

Ex-student looks at picture diaries drawn in late 1945

Setsu Ogawa, former student at a now-defunct girls' senior high school in Kisarazu, Chiba Prefecture, southeast of Tokyo, looks on Aug. 4, 2015, at picture diaries drawn by students of the school in December 1945, four months after the end of World War II. They are on display at the Kisarazu Hometown Museum. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Defense for ex-student pleads not guilty to murder in appeal trial

Defense for ex-student pleads not guilty to murder in appeal trial

An appeal trial of a former Nagoya University student convicted of the 2014 murder of a woman and attempting to kill a boy and girl while she was in high school, begins Aug. 24, 2017, at the Nagoya High Court in Aichi Prefecture, pictured the same day. The defense for the 21-year-old former student, sentenced to life in prison by the lower court, pleaded not guilty, claiming she was not mentally competent to be held responsible for her actions. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo