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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 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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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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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)

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People line up to hear prosecutors' arguments in Abe case

TOKYO, Japan - People line up outside the Tokyo District Court on July 26 for tickets to hear the prosecution's closing arguments in the trial of Takeshi Abe. A former top authority on hemophilia, Abe is at the center of a scandal involving the HIV infection of nearly 1,500 hemophiliacs by unheated blood-clotting agents.