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A Palestinian Prisoner Returns Home - Gaza

Musab Qatawi, a Palestinian prisoner from Qalqilya, who was released from an Israeli prison after three years of detention, meets beloved ones in Qalqilya, West Bank, Palestinian territories on April 10, 2025. Musab says that just hours before his release on April 10, he was assaulted along with several other prisoners scheduled to be freed that day, including the Jerusalemite prisoner Ahmad Manasra, who was also released. Musab recounts harrowing details of the assault, stating that both his and Ahmad Manasra’s heads were forced into garbage bins. Their heads were then shaved under threat, and Israeli soldiers used a razor to mark the Star of David onto Musab’s scalp. Photo by Mohammad Nazal/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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A Palestinian Prisoner Returns Home - Gaza

Photo of Musab Qatawi, a Palestinian prisoner from Qalqilya, who was released from an Israeli prison after three years of detention, in Qalqilya, West Bank, Palestinian territories on April 10, 2025. Musab says that just hours before his release on April 10, he was assaulted along with several other prisoners scheduled to be freed that day, including the Jerusalemite prisoner Ahmad Manasra, who was also released. Musab recounts harrowing details of the assault, stating that both his and Ahmad Manasra’s heads were forced into garbage bins. Their heads were then shaved under threat, and Israeli soldiers used a razor to mark the Star of David onto Musab’s scalp. Photo by Mohammad Nazal/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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A Palestinian Prisoner Returns Home - Gaza

Musab Qatawi, a Palestinian prisoner from Qalqilya, who was released from an Israeli prison after three years of detention, with his beloved ones in Qalqilya, West Bank, Palestinian territories on April 10, 2025. Musab says that just hours before his release on April 10, he was assaulted along with several other prisoners scheduled to be freed that day, including the Jerusalemite prisoner Ahmad Manasra, who was also released. Musab recounts harrowing details of the assault, stating that both his and Ahmad Manasra’s heads were forced into garbage bins. Their heads were then shaved under threat, and Israeli soldiers used a razor to mark the Star of David onto Musab’s scalp. Photo by Mohammad Nazal/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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A Palestinian Prisoner Returns Home - Gaza

Photo of Musab Qatawi, a Palestinian prisoner from Qalqilya, who was released from an Israeli prison after three years of detention, in Qalqilya, West Bank, Palestinian territories on April 10, 2025. Musab says that just hours before his release on April 10, he was assaulted along with several other prisoners scheduled to be freed that day, including the Jerusalemite prisoner Ahmad Manasra, who was also released. Musab recounts harrowing details of the assault, stating that both his and Ahmad Manasra’s heads were forced into garbage bins. Their heads were then shaved under threat, and Israeli soldiers used a razor to mark the Star of David onto Musab’s scalp. Photo by Mohammad Nazal/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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A Palestinian Prisoner Returns Home - Gaza

Photo of Musab Qatawi, a Palestinian prisoner from Qalqilya, who was released from an Israeli prison after three years of detention, in Qalqilya, West Bank, Palestinian territories on April 10, 2025. Musab says that just hours before his release on April 10, he was assaulted along with several other prisoners scheduled to be freed that day, including the Jerusalemite prisoner Ahmad Manasra, who was also released. Musab recounts harrowing details of the assault, stating that both his and Ahmad Manasra’s heads were forced into garbage bins. Their heads were then shaved under threat, and Israeli soldiers used a razor to mark the Star of David onto Musab’s scalp. Photo by Mohammad Nazal/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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A Palestinian Prisoner Returns Home - Gaza

Musab Qatawi, a Palestinian prisoner from Qalqilya, who was released from an Israeli prison after three years of detention, meets beloved ones in Qalqilya, West Bank, Palestinian territories on April 10, 2025. Musab says that just hours before his release on April 10, he was assaulted along with several other prisoners scheduled to be freed that day, including the Jerusalemite prisoner Ahmad Manasra, who was also released. Musab recounts harrowing details of the assault, stating that both his and Ahmad Manasra’s heads were forced into garbage bins. Their heads were then shaved under threat, and Israeli soldiers used a razor to mark the Star of David onto Musab’s scalp. Photo by Mohammad Nazal/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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A Palestinian Prisoner Returns Home - Gaza

Musab Qatawi, a Palestinian prisoner from Qalqilya, who was released from an Israeli prison after three years of detention, meets beloved ones in Qalqilya, West Bank, Palestinian territories on April 10, 2025. Musab says that just hours before his release on April 10, he was assaulted along with several other prisoners scheduled to be freed that day, including the Jerusalemite prisoner Ahmad Manasra, who was also released. Musab recounts harrowing details of the assault, stating that both his and Ahmad Manasra’s heads were forced into garbage bins. Their heads were then shaved under threat, and Israeli soldiers used a razor to mark the Star of David onto Musab’s scalp. Photo by Mohammad Nazal/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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CHINA-GANSU-LONGNAN-HEAVY RAINFALL-RESCUE OPERATIONS (CN)

(240727) -- LONGNAN, July 27, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- One of the rescuers points to a spot when he recounts their efforts to access Yaogou Village of Wudu District in Longnan City, northwest China's Gansu Province, July 26, 2024. From Monday to Wednesday, Gansu experienced the heaviest rainfall this year, marking the most severe round of downpours since 1961 in the province, said the provincial meteorological bureau. Locals in Longnan are racing against time to repair flood-hit infrastructure and put life back to normal. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Lang Bingbing)

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(SP)CHINA-XINJIANG-AKTO-MOUNTAINEERING (CN)

(240709) -- AKTO, July 9, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Janibaiki Burunbayi recounts his past experiences of climbing Muztagh Ata with a foreign mountaineering team at his home in Akto, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, July 5, 2024. This photo taken in 2004, shows a French climber, Janibaiki Burunbayi, Taxibayi Janibaiki, Taxibayi Janibaiki's sister, and Janibaiki Burunbayi's older brother (from R to L). The Muztagh Ata, located at the Pamir Plateau at an altitude of over 7,500 meters in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, is an attraction to mountaineering enthusiasts from around the world. During the climbing season, people gather in Subax Village, Akto County, at the foot of the Muztagh Ata for mountaineering. As for those local people who are familiar with the terrain and climate here, participating in international mountaineering sports can increase their income and improve their livelihoods. At the same time, through mountaineering, they also gain a deeper un

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XINHUA PHOTOS OF THE DAY

(240421) -- BEIJING, April 21, 2024 (Xinhua) -- People visit a photo exhibition commemorating the Flying Tigers and Doolittle Raiders, Americans who fought Japan in World War II in cooperation with the Chinese people, at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, the United States, April 18, 2024. The half-year-long exhibition recounts the stories of the Flying Tigers and Doolittle Raiders with around 100 photos and detailed narrations. (Xinhua/Liu Jie)

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Photo exhibition on Flying Tigers, Doolittle Raiders unveiled at U.S. Air Force museum

STORY: Photo exhibition on Flying Tigers, Doolittle Raiders unveiled at U.S. Air Force museum SHOOTING TIME: April 19, 2024 DATELINE: April 20, 2024 LENGTH: 00:02:51 LOCATION: DAYTON, U.S. CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): JEFFREY GREENE, Chairman of Sino-American Aviation Heritage Foundation 2. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): TERRY BRANSTAD, Former U.S. Ambassador to China 3. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): HUANG PING, Chinese Consul General in New York 4. SOUNDBITE 4 (English): JIANG JIANG, Vice President of Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries 5. various of event 6. various of photo exhibition STORYLINE: A photo exhibition kicked off on Thursday at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force to commemorate the Flying Tigers and Doolittle Raiders, Americans who fought Japan in World War II in cooperation with the Chinese people. The half-year-long exhibition recounts the stories of the Flying Tigers and Doolittle Raiders with around 100 photos and detailed narration

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U.S.-DAYTON-FLYING TIGERS-DOOLITTLE RAIDERS-PHOTO EXHIBITION

(240420) -- DAYTON, April 20, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A photo exhibition commemorating the Flying Tigers and Doolittle Raiders, Americans who fought Japan in World War II in cooperation with the Chinese people, is held at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, the United States, April 18, 2024. The half-year-long exhibition recounts the stories of the Flying Tigers and Doolittle Raiders with around 100 photos and detailed narrations. TO GO WITH "Roundup: Photo exhibition on Flying Tigers, Doolittle Raiders unveiled at U.S. Air Force museum" (Xinhua/Liu Jie)

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U.S.-DAYTON-FLYING TIGERS-DOOLITTLE RAIDERS-PHOTO EXHIBITION

(240420) -- DAYTON, April 20, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Jiang Jiang, vice president of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, speaks during a photo exhibition commemorating the Flying Tigers and Doolittle Raiders, Americans who fought Japan in World War II in cooperation with the Chinese people, at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, the United States, April 18, 2024. The half-year-long exhibition recounts the stories of the Flying Tigers and Doolittle Raiders with around 100 photos and detailed narrations. TO GO WITH "Roundup: Photo exhibition on Flying Tigers, Doolittle Raiders unveiled at U.S. Air Force museum" (Xinhua/Liu Jie)

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U.S.-DAYTON-FLYING TIGERS-DOOLITTLE RAIDERS-PHOTO EXHIBITION

(240420) -- DAYTON, April 20, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Richard Myers, former chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaks during a photo exhibition commemorating the Flying Tigers and Doolittle Raiders, Americans who fought Japan in World War II in cooperation with the Chinese people, at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, the United States, April 18, 2024. The half-year-long exhibition recounts the stories of the Flying Tigers and Doolittle Raiders with around 100 photos and detailed narrations. TO GO WITH "Roundup: Photo exhibition on Flying Tigers, Doolittle Raiders unveiled at U.S. Air Force museum" (Xinhua/Liu Jie)

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U.S.-DAYTON-FLYING TIGERS-DOOLITTLE RAIDERS-PHOTO EXHIBITION

(240420) -- DAYTON, April 20, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A photo exhibition commemorating the Flying Tigers and Doolittle Raiders, Americans who fought Japan in World War II in cooperation with the Chinese people, is held at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, the United States, April 18, 2024. The half-year-long exhibition recounts the stories of the Flying Tigers and Doolittle Raiders with around 100 photos and detailed narrations. TO GO WITH "Roundup: Photo exhibition on Flying Tigers, Doolittle Raiders unveiled at U.S. Air Force museum" (Xinhua/Liu Jie)

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U.S.-DAYTON-FLYING TIGERS-DOOLITTLE RAIDERS-PHOTO EXHIBITION

(240420) -- DAYTON, April 20, 2024 (Xinhua) -- People visit a photo exhibition commemorating the Flying Tigers and Doolittle Raiders, Americans who fought Japan in World War II in cooperation with the Chinese people, at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, the United States, April 18, 2024. The half-year-long exhibition recounts the stories of the Flying Tigers and Doolittle Raiders with around 100 photos and detailed narrations. TO GO WITH "Roundup: Photo exhibition on Flying Tigers, Doolittle Raiders unveiled at U.S. Air Force museum" (Xinhua/Liu Jie)

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U.S.-DAYTON-FLYING TIGERS-DOOLITTLE RAIDERS-PHOTO EXHIBITION

(240420) -- DAYTON, April 20, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Jeffrey Greene, chairman of the Sino-American Aviation Heritage Foundation, speaks during a photo exhibition commemorating the Flying Tigers and Doolittle Raiders, Americans who fought Japan in World War II in cooperation with the Chinese people, at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, the United States, April 18, 2024. The half-year-long exhibition recounts the stories of the Flying Tigers and Doolittle Raiders with around 100 photos and detailed narrations. TO GO WITH "Roundup: Photo exhibition on Flying Tigers, Doolittle Raiders unveiled at U.S. Air Force museum" (Xinhua/Liu Jie)

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U.S.-DAYTON-FLYING TIGERS-DOOLITTLE RAIDERS-PHOTO EXHIBITION

(240420) -- DAYTON, April 20, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A photo exhibition commemorating the Flying Tigers and Doolittle Raiders, Americans who fought Japan in World War II in cooperation with the Chinese people, is held at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, the United States, April 18, 2024. The half-year-long exhibition recounts the stories of the Flying Tigers and Doolittle Raiders with around 100 photos and detailed narrations. TO GO WITH "Roundup: Photo exhibition on Flying Tigers, Doolittle Raiders unveiled at U.S. Air Force museum" (Xinhua/Liu Jie)

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U.S.-DAYTON-FLYING TIGERS-DOOLITTLE RAIDERS-PHOTO EXHIBITION

(240420) -- DAYTON, April 20, 2024 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese Consul General in New York Huang Ping speaks during a photo exhibition commemorating the Flying Tigers and Doolittle Raiders, Americans who fought Japan in World War II in cooperation with the Chinese people, at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, the United States, April 18, 2024. The half-year-long exhibition recounts the stories of the Flying Tigers and Doolittle Raiders with around 100 photos and detailed narrations. TO GO WITH "Roundup: Photo exhibition on Flying Tigers, Doolittle Raiders unveiled at U.S. Air Force museum" (Xinhua/Liu Jie)

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U.S.-DAYTON-FLYING TIGERS-DOOLITTLE RAIDERS-PHOTO EXHIBITION

(240420) -- DAYTON, April 20, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A photo exhibition commemorating the Flying Tigers and Doolittle Raiders, Americans who fought Japan in World War II in cooperation with the Chinese people, is held at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, the United States, April 18, 2024. The half-year-long exhibition recounts the stories of the Flying Tigers and Doolittle Raiders with around 100 photos and detailed narrations. TO GO WITH "Roundup: Photo exhibition on Flying Tigers, Doolittle Raiders unveiled at U.S. Air Force museum" (Xinhua/Liu Jie)

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U.S.-DAYTON-FLYING TIGERS-DOOLITTLE RAIDERS-PHOTO EXHIBITION

(240420) -- DAYTON, April 20, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A photo exhibition commemorating the Flying Tigers and Doolittle Raiders, Americans who fought Japan in World War II in cooperation with the Chinese people, is held at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, the United States, April 18, 2024. The half-year-long exhibition recounts the stories of the Flying Tigers and Doolittle Raiders with around 100 photos and detailed narrations. TO GO WITH "Roundup: Photo exhibition on Flying Tigers, Doolittle Raiders unveiled at U.S. Air Force museum" (Xinhua/Liu Jie)

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New book recalls heroics of the "Oskar Schindler of China"

STORY: New book recalls heroics of the "Oskar Schindler of China" SHOOTING TIME: Jan. 19, 2024 DATELINE: Jan. 20, 2024 LENGTH: 0:00:46 LOCATION: Beijing CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the launch ceremony STORYLINE: The launch ceremony of a book about the time John Rabe spent in China was hosted by Beijing Union University and Research Press on Friday afternoon. John Rabe, dubbed the "Oskar Schindler of China," and dozens of other foreigners risked their lives to set up an international safety zone in Nanjing, thereby saving the lives of more than 200,000 Chinese people between 1937 and 1938. The book, "Rabe and China," contains the diary of John Rabe and other relevant documents and recounts the 30 years he spent in China in places including Beijing, Tianjin, and Nanjing, as well as the enduring friendship between the Rabe family and China. The diary and documents were supplied by friends and relatives of Rabe who also gave their permission for it to be used in this book. The book was w

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Mother of premature baby recounts evacuation from Gaza to Egypt

STORY: Mother of premature baby recounts evacuation from Gaza to Egypt SHOOTING TIME: Nov. 20, 2023 DATELINE: Nov. 21, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:42 LOCATION: Cairo CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of ambulance and hospital 2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic): Mother of a premature baby 3. various of debris in Gaza STORYLINE: Egypt received 28 premature babies from the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing on Monday. A mother of one of the babies recounts her experience during the conflict. SOUNDBITE (Arabic): Mother of a premature baby "On the third day of the conflict, we were forced to relocate to the south. They ordered us to leave our residence and then blew it up. I went to Al-Shifa Hospital. We did not anticipate that they (Israel) would bomb the hospital, and that the children there would suffer because of the bombing. Ten days ago, doctors took my premature baby girl off the oxygen and tried to feed her and help her grow to a healthy weight. During these ten days, they (the Israeli army) surrounded the hospital

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Volunteer guide recounts twin disaster of March 2011

SENDAI, Japan - Volunteer guide Shuji Yamamoto (R) recounts damage inflicted on the town of Yamamoto, Miyagi Prefecture, by the devastating earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011, to visitors in December 2013.

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Emperor recounts rice harvest scene in New Year poem

TOKYO, Japan - Pool photo taken Jan. 14, 2015, shows the annual New Year Poetry Reading ceremony at the Imperial Palace, at which Emperor Akihito, Empress Michiko and other imperial family members attended. This year's theme for "waka" poems at the reading was "hon," meaning "book." (Pool photo)

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Emperor recounts rice harvest scene in New Year poem

TOKYO, Japan - Pool photo taken Jan. 14, 2015, shows the annual New Year Poetry Reading ceremony at the Imperial Palace, at which Emperor Akihito, Empress Michiko and other imperial family members attended. This year's theme for "waka" poems at the reading was "hon," meaning "book." (Pool photo)

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ICRC staffer Okimoto recounts his work in strife-torn lands

TOKYO, Japan - Keiichiro Okimoto, one of only three Japanese staff members of the Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross, talks about his work in strife-torn countries in an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on Nov. 13, 2009.

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New pictures stir memories of Hawaii training boat tragedy

HONOLULU, United States - Tatsuyoshi Mizuguchi recounts memories of his son Takeshi who was killed in a collision between the Japanese fisheries training boat Ehime Maru and the U.S. submarine Greeneville in Hawaii on Feb. 9, 2001, during an interview with Kyodo News in Honolulu on Feb. 8. Mizuguchi, sitting beside a photo of Takeshi, newly released snapshots and videos which were restored from Takeshi's digital camera. Mizuguchi's son is the only victim whose body remains missing in the accident, which killed nine including Takeshi and three other students of Uwajima Fisheries High School in Ehime Prefecture.

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(1)Hibakusha use NPT confab as platform to promote peace message

New York, United States - Satoru Konishi, international director of Hidankyo, a confederation of A-bomb and H-bomb sufferers, recounts events on Aug. 6, 1945, the day the U.S. dropped an A-bomb on Hiroshima, for some 200 high school students in New York on May 23.

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Afghan boy flees to Pakistan, recounts air strikes

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Faridullah Saharjan, a 14-year-old Afghan boy, speaks Oct. 12 of his two-night trek to Peshawar, Pakistan from his war-torn homeland. He told Kyodo News, ''I couldn't sleep the first night of the bombing, because I was so scared. I was told by my father to run away, so I finally reached here after (endlessly) walking through for two nights.''

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Book recounts lives of shipwrecked sailors in mid-1800s

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshikazu Sano, a former producer of Nagoya Broadcasting Network Co., holds his recently published book, titled 'Sakoku Nippon, Ikoku Mexico' (Closed Japan, Exotic Mexico), about 13 shipwrecked Japanese sailors who were rescued and taken to Mexico by a Spanish ship in the 19th century. The Spanish version of the book, called ''Vida en Mexico de Trece Naufragos Japoneses'' (Life in Mexico of 13 Japanese Castaways) was also published in Mexico in June last year.

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EGYPT-CAIRO-POSTAL MUSEUM-RENOVATION-OPEN

(220709) -- CAIRO, July 9, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on July 7, 2022 shows stamps exhibited at the renovated Egyptian Postal Museum in Cairo, Egypt. The old-style, palace-like building of the renovated Egyptian Postal Museum in the heart of downtown Cairo is home to thousands of items recounting the country's postal history from the times of ancient Egypt until the modern Egyptian mail service established in the 19th century. TO GO WITH "Feature: Renovated museum recounts Egyptian postal history throughout ages" (Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa)

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EGYPT-CAIRO-POSTAL MUSEUM-RENOVATION-OPEN

(220709) -- CAIRO, July 9, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on July 7, 2022 shows stamp seals exhibited at the renovated Egyptian Postal Museum in Cairo, Egypt. The old-style, palace-like building of the renovated Egyptian Postal Museum in the heart of downtown Cairo is home to thousands of items recounting the country's postal history from the times of ancient Egypt until the modern Egyptian mail service established in the 19th century. TO GO WITH "Feature: Renovated museum recounts Egyptian postal history throughout ages" (Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa)

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EGYPT-CAIRO-POSTAL MUSEUM-RENOVATION-OPEN

(220709) -- CAIRO, July 9, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A visitor takes photo of a letter box exhibited at the renovated Egyptian Postal Museum in Cairo, Egypt, July 7, 2022. The old-style, palace-like building of the renovated Egyptian Postal Museum in the heart of downtown Cairo is home to thousands of items recounting the country's postal history from the times of ancient Egypt until the modern Egyptian mail service established in the 19th century. TO GO WITH "Feature: Renovated museum recounts Egyptian postal history throughout ages" (Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa)

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EGYPT-CAIRO-POSTAL MUSEUM-RENOVATION-OPEN

(220709) -- CAIRO, July 9, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on July 7, 2022 shows stamps exhibited at the renovated Egyptian Postal Museum in Cairo, Egypt. The old-style, palace-like building of the renovated Egyptian Postal Museum in the heart of downtown Cairo is home to thousands of items recounting the country's postal history from the times of ancient Egypt until the modern Egyptian mail service established in the 19th century. TO GO WITH "Feature: Renovated museum recounts Egyptian postal history throughout ages" (Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa)

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Renovated museum recounts Egyptian postal history throughout ages

STORY: Renovated museum recounts Egyptian postal history throughout ages DATELINE: July 9, 2022 LENGTH: 0:02:54 LOCATION: Cairo CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Egyptian Postal Museum 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): HEBA BARAKAT, Adviser to the head of Egypt's postal authority for museum affairs 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): HEBA BARAKAT, Adviser to the head of Egypt's postal authority for museum affairs STORYLINE: The old-style, palace-like building of the renovated Egyptian Postal Museum in the heart of downtown Cairo is home to thousands of items recounting the country's postal history from the times of ancient Egypt until the modern Egyptian mail service established in the 19th century. When the museum was officially inaugurated by King Farouk of Egypt in 1940, it was only one hall and a passage with 1,250 exhibited items in this very same building of Egypt's first postal authority, which was established in 1865. But today after its renovation and development over the past three years, the museum

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Woman recalls boat mission soldiers' suicide day after end of WWII

Sayoko Maeda recounts witnessing World War II suicide boat mission soldiers killing themselves with bombs in Kochi Prefecture, western Japan, the day after Japan's surrender to the Allied Forces, as seen in this photo taken at her home in the prefectural city of Konan on Nov. 13, 2014. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Osaka man recounts arrest, torture under public order law in WWII

Jiro Nishikawa recounts his experience of being arrested and tortured in Tokyo under the Maintenance of Public Order Law during World War II at his home in Kaizuka, Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, on Dec. 25, 2014. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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JR West's Kaitaichi Station

Photo shows JR West's Kaitaichi Station in Hiroshima Prefecture. Toshiro Uragami, an 88-year-old entrepreneur hailing from Hagi, Yamaguchi Prefecture, recounts his war memories, including the time he escaped from an Imperial Japanese Army unit in September 1945, about a month after the end of World War II, by surreptitiously climbing on a coal cargo train at the station. (Photo by Makoto Hori)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-researcher Obokata to publish book on STAP cell scandal

Photo shows the cover of a book titled "Anohi" (That Day), written by former stem cell scientist Haruko Obokata. The book, which recounts the scandal surrounding her alleged falsification of research papers that unfolded from early 2014, will hit the shelves in Japan on Jan. 28, 2016, according to its publisher, Kodansha Ltd. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mother recalls loss of son in 2011 northeastern Japan tsunami

Yukari Okawa, who lost her second son in the 2011 tsunami triggered by a devastating earthquake in the northeastern Japanese region of Tohoku, recounts her experience during an event held on Nov. 29, 2015, in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, to remember the disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tsunami survivor recounts ordeal in northeastern Japan

Tetsuya Tadano (C), a graduate of Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, recalls his experience to remember the 2011 tsunami triggered by a devastating earthquake during an event on Nov. 29, 2015, in Natori, another city in the northeastern Japanese prefecture. A total of 84 people of the school, including students, were killed in the disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-abductee Hasuike recounts years in N. Korea

Former abductee Kaoru Hasuike tells of his years in North Korea at a seminar for college students in Taku in Saga Prefecture in southwestern Japan on Oct. 3, 2015. The seminar was the first collaborative event between the Japanese government and colleges over the issue of abduction of Japanese nationals by North Korea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-abductee to N. Korea recounts her ordeal

Hitomi Soga, who was abducted to North Korea in 1978 and now lives in Japan since returning home in 2002, recounts her experience in the communist country at a meeting in Saitama, north of Tokyo, on Sept. 5, 2015. She emphasized the need for remembering those who have been kidnapped to North Korea and who wish to return home. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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101-year-old Japanese war veteran recounts WWII experience

Taku Kawarai, 101, a former Imperial Japanese Army soldier, tells of his World War II experience at a gathering in Omitama, Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, on Aug. 15, 2015. He stressed the need never to repeat the mistake of launching a war. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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101-year-old Japanese war veteran recounts WWII experience

Taku Kawarai, 101, a former Imperial Japanese Army soldier, recounts his World War II experience at a gathering in Omitama, Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, on Aug. 15, 2015. He arrived there in a wheelchair. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-soldier recalls WWII fighting on New Guinea island

Susumu Iida, 92, recounts his experience of fierce fighting on the southwestern Pacific island of New Guinea during World War II in an interview at his home in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo, on July 29, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Iranian man recounts damage inflicted by Iraqi chemical weapons

A leader of a group of citizens suffering from the effects of chemical weapons used by Iraq in the northwestern Iranian city of Sardasht during the war between the two countries nearly three decades ago explains the present conditions in the city on Aug. 2, 2015. The building in the back in this photo cannot be torn down due to the presence of harmful residues. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-suicide pilot recalls his experience in WWII

Hatsuo Sueyoshi, 88, a former member of the Imperial Japanese Army's suicide corps during World War II, recounts his experience as a surviving witness using a model plane in Chikuzen, Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Feb. 14, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Man recalls training as WWII suicide glider pilot at age 13

Takayuki Yamanoi recounts his experience of receiving training as a suicide glider pilot at age 13 in Nagano Prefecture, central Japan, toward the end of World War II, as pictured on March 20, 2015. ==Kyodo