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(InXizang)CHINA-XIZANG-FORMER SERF-NEW LIFE-LOZANG (CN)

(240404) -- LHASA, April 4, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Lozang is pictured at his house in Kundeling Street, Chengguan District of Lhasa, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, April 2, 2024. Born in 1939, Lozang is a resident of Kundeling Street of Chengguan District in Lhasa. Before the democratic reform, Lozang and his family were serfs, working for Kundeling Monastery. During his childhood, Lozang worked as a muleteer and was obliged to transport supplies, only receiving meager sustenance in return. In March 1959, people in Xizang launched the democratic reform that ended the region's feudal serfdom. Lozang was freed and allocated accommodations. In 1960, he was appointed head of the residents' committee in his community, and elected as a deputy to the National People's Congress. Now retired, Lozang lives with his family in a three-story house. His eldest and second daughters run a tea shop in downtown Lhasa, and his younger daughter works in a bank. Lozang said he was very happy to take care of h

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(InXizang)CHINA-XIZANG-FORMER SERF-NEW LIFE-LOZANG (CN)

(240404) -- LHASA, April 4, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Lozang poses for a photo with his wife at his house in Kundeling Street, Chengguan District of Lhasa, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, April 2, 2024. Born in 1939, Lozang is a resident of Kundeling Street of Chengguan District in Lhasa. Before the democratic reform, Lozang and his family were serfs, working for Kundeling Monastery. During his childhood, Lozang worked as a muleteer and was obliged to transport supplies, only receiving meager sustenance in return. In March 1959, people in Xizang launched the democratic reform that ended the region's feudal serfdom. Lozang was freed and allocated accommodations. In 1960, he was appointed head of the residents' committee in his community, and elected as a deputy to the National People's Congress. Now retired, Lozang lives with his family in a three-story house. His eldest and second daughters run a tea shop in downtown Lhasa, and his younger daughter works in a bank. Lozang said he was very hap

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(InXizang)CHINA-XIZANG-FORMER SERF-NEW LIFE-LOZANG (CN)

(240404) -- LHASA, April 4, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Lozang waters plants at his house in Kundeling Street, Chengguan District of Lhasa, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, April 2, 2024. Born in 1939, Lozang is a resident of Kundeling Street of Chengguan District in Lhasa. Before the democratic reform, Lozang and his family were serfs, working for Kundeling Monastery. During his childhood, Lozang worked as a muleteer and was obliged to transport supplies, only receiving meager sustenance in return. In March 1959, people in Xizang launched the democratic reform that ended the region's feudal serfdom. Lozang was freed and allocated accommodations. In 1960, he was appointed head of the residents' committee in his community, and elected as a deputy to the National People's Congress. Now retired, Lozang lives with his family in a three-story house. His eldest and second daughters run a tea shop in downtown Lhasa, and his younger daughter works in a bank. Lozang said he was very happy to take care of

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(InXizang)CHINA-XIZANG-FORMER SERF-NEW LIFE-LOZANG (CN)

(240404) -- LHASA, April 4, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Lozang plays with his grandchild at his house in Kundeling Street, Chengguan District of Lhasa, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, April 2, 2024. Born in 1939, Lozang is a resident of Kundeling Street of Chengguan District in Lhasa. Before the democratic reform, Lozang and his family were serfs, working for Kundeling Monastery. During his childhood, Lozang worked as a muleteer and was obliged to transport supplies, only receiving meager sustenance in return. In March 1959, people in Xizang launched the democratic reform that ended the region's feudal serfdom. Lozang was freed and allocated accommodations. In 1960, he was appointed head of the residents' committee in his community, and elected as a deputy to the National People's Congress. Now retired, Lozang lives with his family in a three-story house. His eldest and second daughters run a tea shop in downtown Lhasa, and his younger daughter works in a bank. Lozang said he was very happy to

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(InXizang)CHINA-XIZANG-FORMER SERF-NEW LIFE-LOZANG (CN)

(240404) -- LHASA, April 4, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Lozang presents his ID card in Lhasa, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, Dec. 7, 2021. Born in 1939, Lozang is a resident of Kundeling Street of Chengguan District in Lhasa. Before the democratic reform, Lozang and his family were serfs, working for Kundeling Monastery. During his childhood, Lozang worked as a muleteer and was obliged to transport supplies, only receiving meager sustenance in return. In March 1959, people in Xizang launched the democratic reform that ended the region's feudal serfdom. Lozang was freed and allocated accommodations. In 1960, he was appointed head of the residents' committee in his community, and elected as a deputy to the National People's Congress. Now retired, Lozang lives with his family in a three-story house. His eldest and second daughters run a tea shop in downtown Lhasa, and his younger daughter works in a bank. Lozang said he was very happy to take care of his grandchildren at home and exercise occasio

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(InXizang)CHINA-XIZANG-FORMER SERF-NEW LIFE-LOZANG (CN)

(240404) -- LHASA, April 4, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Lozang uses a mobile phone at his house in Kundeling Street, Chengguan District of Lhasa, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, April 2, 2024. Born in 1939, Lozang is a resident of Kundeling Street of Chengguan District in Lhasa. Before the democratic reform, Lozang and his family were serfs, working for Kundeling Monastery. During his childhood, Lozang worked as a muleteer and was obliged to transport supplies, only receiving meager sustenance in return. In March 1959, people in Xizang launched the democratic reform that ended the region's feudal serfdom. Lozang was freed and allocated accommodations. In 1960, he was appointed head of the residents' committee in his community, and elected as a deputy to the National People's Congress. Now retired, Lozang lives with his family in a three-story house. His eldest and second daughters run a tea shop in downtown Lhasa, and his younger daughter works in a bank. Lozang said he was very happy to take c

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Jordanian airstrike claims at least 9 lives in Syria's Sweida

STORY: Jordanian airstrike claims at least 9 lives in Syria's Sweida SHOOTING TIME: Jan. 18, 2024 DATELINE: Jan. 19, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:20 LOCATION: Damascus CATEGORY: OTHERS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the damage and destruction at the site STORYLINE: Jordanian warplanes executed strikes in the Arman area of Sweida province in southern Syria on Thursday, resulting in nine fatalities, a war monitor reported. A strike targeted a two-story house, claiming the lives of six individuals, namely a husband and wife with their two young daughters, and another couple, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Rescue efforts are underway, with an elderly woman still missing under the debris. Unconfirmed reports suggest her demise, the Observatory added. Additionally, three others, including a man, his mother and aunt, lost their lives in a separate dwelling by another strike. Jordan has been actively targeting drug traffickers in Sweida on the Syrian-Jordanian border region. The Syrian government do

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Girls And Boys Deliver Letters To "Wise Men" In Mexico City

Dozens of families, along with their daughters and sons, are visiting the facilities of the Postal Palace in the Zocalo of Mexico City, to take photos with the Three Wise Men, Melchior, Gaspar, and Balthasar. They believe that the Star of Bethlehem will guide a response, which the Mexican Postal Service will deliver to their homes. According to belief, the Gospel of Saint Matthew mentions that ''wise men'' from the East are being guided by a star to worship the newly born king of the Jews. The names Melchior, Gaspar, and Balthasar first appeared in a 6th-century mosaic in the Basilica of Saint Apollinaris the New in Ravenna, Italy. (Photo by Gerardo Vieyra/NurPhoto)

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Girls And Boys Deliver Letters To "Wise Men" In Mexico City

Dozens of families, accompanied by their daughters and sons, are visiting the facilities of the Postal Palace in the Zocalo of Mexico City to write and deliver letters to the Three Wise Men: Melchior, Gaspar, and Balthasar. They believe that they will receive a response from the Star of Bethlehem, which will be delivered to their homes by the Mexican Postal Service. According to belief, the Gospel of Saint Matthew mentions that some ''wise men'' from the East were guided by a star to worship the newborn king of the Jews. The names Melchior, Gaspar, and Balthasar first appeared in the famous 6th-century mosaic in the Basilica of Saint Apollinaris the New in the Italian city of Ravenna. (Photo by Gerardo Vieyra/NurPhoto)

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Girls And Boys Deliver Letters To "Wise Men" In Mexico City

Dozens of families, along with their daughters and sons, are visiting the facilities of the Postal Palace in the Zocalo of Mexico City, to take photos with the Three Wise Men, Melchior, Gaspar, and Balthasar. They believe that the Star of Bethlehem will guide a response, which the Mexican Postal Service will deliver to their homes. According to belief, the Gospel of Saint Matthew mentions that ''wise men'' from the East are being guided by a star to worship the newly born king of the Jews. The names Melchior, Gaspar, and Balthasar first appeared in a 6th-century mosaic in the Basilica of Saint Apollinaris the New in Ravenna, Italy. (Photo by Gerardo Vieyra/NurPhoto)

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Girls And Boys Deliver Letters To "Wise Men" In Mexico City

Dozens of families, accompanied by their daughters and sons, are visiting the facilities of the Postal Palace in the Zocalo of Mexico City to write and deliver letters to the Three Wise Men: Melchior, Gaspar, and Balthasar. They believe that they will receive a response from the Star of Bethlehem, which will be delivered to their homes by the Mexican Postal Service. According to belief, the Gospel of Saint Matthew mentions that some ''wise men'' from the East were guided by a star to worship the newborn king of the Jews. The names Melchior, Gaspar, and Balthasar first appeared in the famous 6th-century mosaic in the Basilica of Saint Apollinaris the New in the Italian city of Ravenna. (Photo by Gerardo Vieyra/NurPhoto)

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Girls And Boys Deliver Letters To "Wise Men" In Mexico City

Dozens of families, accompanied by their daughters and sons, are visiting the facilities of the Postal Palace in the Zocalo of Mexico City to write and deliver letters to the Three Wise Men: Melchior, Gaspar, and Balthasar. They believe that they will receive a response from the Star of Bethlehem, which will be delivered to their homes by the Mexican Postal Service. According to belief, the Gospel of Saint Matthew mentions that some ''wise men'' from the East were guided by a star to worship the newborn king of the Jews. The names Melchior, Gaspar, and Balthasar first appeared in the famous 6th-century mosaic in the Basilica of Saint Apollinaris the New in the Italian city of Ravenna. (Photo by Gerardo Vieyra/NurPhoto)

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Girls And Boys Deliver Letters To "Wise Men" In Mexico City

Dozens of families, accompanied by their daughters and sons, are visiting the facilities of the Postal Palace in the Zocalo of Mexico City to deliver letters to the Three Wise Men: Melchior, Gaspar, and Balthasar. They believe that they will receive a response from the Star of Bethlehem, which will be delivered to the doors of their homes by the Mexican Postal Service. According to belief, the Gospel of Saint Matthew mentions that some ''wise men'' from the East were guided by a star to worship the newborn king of the Jews. The names Melchior, Gaspar, and Balthasar first appeared in the famous 6th-century mosaic in the Basilica of Saint Apollinaris the New in the Italian city of Ravenna. (Photo by Gerardo Vieyra/NurPhoto)

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Girls And Boys Deliver Letters To "Wise Men" In Mexico City

Dozens of families, accompanied by their daughters and sons, are visiting the facilities of the Postal Palace in the Zocalo of Mexico City to write and deliver letters to the Three Wise Men: Melchior, Gaspar, and Balthasar. They believe that they will receive a response from the Star of Bethlehem, which will be delivered to their homes by the Mexican Postal Service. According to belief, the Gospel of Saint Matthew mentions that some ''wise men'' from the East were guided by a star to worship the newborn king of the Jews. The names Melchior, Gaspar, and Balthasar first appeared in the famous 6th-century mosaic in the Basilica of Saint Apollinaris the New in the Italian city of Ravenna. (Photo by Gerardo Vieyra/NurPhoto)

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Girls And Boys Deliver Letters To "Wise Men" In Mexico City

Dozens of families, accompanied by their daughters and sons, are visiting the facilities of the Postal Palace in the Zocalo of Mexico City to write and deliver letters to the Three Wise Men: Melchior, Gaspar, and Balthasar. They believe that they will receive a response from the Star of Bethlehem, which will be delivered to their homes by the Mexican Postal Service. According to belief, the Gospel of Saint Matthew mentions that some ''wise men'' from the East were guided by a star to worship the newborn king of the Jews. The names Melchior, Gaspar, and Balthasar first appeared in the famous 6th-century mosaic in the Basilica of Saint Apollinaris the New in the Italian city of Ravenna. (Photo by Gerardo Vieyra/NurPhoto)

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Gerard Collomb's Funeral - Lyon

Caroline Collomb, wife of Gérard Collomb, accompanied by her two daughters and three other children Gérard Collomb during the funeral of Gérard Collomb, former mayor of Lyon and former Minister of the Interior, in Saint-Jean Cathedral, in Lyon, France on November 29, 2023. Photo by Soudan E/ANDBZ/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gerard Collomb's Funeral - Lyon

Caroline Collomb, wife of Gérard Collomb, accompanied by her two daughters and three other children Gérard Collomb during the funeral of Gérard Collomb, former mayor of Lyon and former Minister of the Interior, in Saint-Jean Cathedral, in Lyon, France on November 29, 2023. Photo by Soudan E/ANDBZ/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Abortion Rights Protest In Gdansk, Poland

Protesters with anti-government sogans are seen in Gdansk, Poland on 14 June 2023 Protests in over 60 Polish cities demand liberalized abortion law after the death of another pregnant woman in hospital. The 33-year-old woman died last month in the John Paul II hospital in Nowy Targ, after doctors refused to abort after the waters broke. Woman was told to lie with her legs up, as the medics hoped her fluids would be reconstituted. She developed sepsis and died three days later. How many more mothers will lose their daughters? slogan is seen. (Photo by Michal Fludra/NurPhoto)

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A-bomb surviving Dutchman offers flowers for bomb victims

NAGASAKI, Japan - Dutchman Willy Buchel, who survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, and his three daughters pay floral tribute to the atomic-bomb victims in World War II at Peace Park in the southwestern Japanese city on April 19, 2014.

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Kinako and her daughters

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Labrador retriever Kinako (C) in a police uniform-like costume poses with her daughters Komugi (R) and Mirin at the Kagawa prefectural police headquarters in the city of Takamatsu on April 3, 2013. Kinako was appointed with her daughters as a special member of the prefectural police's education team. She worked as a police dog for two years and three months until the end of March 2013, having previously failed the test six years running.

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Japanese hot-spring area makes 'happi' coats for Obama family

NAGASAKI, Japan - The proprietress of a Japanese-style inn Yumiko Kusano (2nd from L) and three members of a tourism association in the Obama hot-spring area of Unzen, Nagasaki Prefecture, pose Jan. 14 wearing and showing blue ''happi'' coats. They specially made them for U.S. President-elect Barack Obama, his wife Michelle and their two daughters to celebrate his upcoming inauguration. Kusano is secretary general of the group ''Change Obama no kai (Change Obama association)'' which consists of proprietresses and other local people. The group tailored the Japanese coats, with ''President Obama'' written on one of the collars and ''Nagasaki, Obama Hot Spring'' on the other in white for the couple, getting their measurements via the Internet.

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Gangster sentenced to death for fatal shooting of Nagasaki mayor

NAGASAKI, Japan - The three daughters of Nagasaki Mayor Itcho Ito, who was shot to death by Tetsuya Shiroo during his election campaign on April 17 in 2007, enters the Nagasaki District Court in Nagasaki on May 26 to hear the sentence in Shiroo's trial. The court sentenced the 60-year-old gangster to death for the shooting.

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Ex-abductees express joy over coming reunions with children

TOKYO, Japan - Four of the five repatriated abductees expressed joy in Tokyo on May 22 over the reunions to take place later in the day with their sons and daughters, when Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi returns home from Pyongyang after talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. But they also expressed unhappiness that the three family members of a former abductee, Hitomi Soga (C), will not be coming to Japan at this time. The four are (from L to R) Yasushi Chimura and his wife Fukie, Yukiko Hasuike and her husband Kaoru.

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(3)ASDF members return from 3-month Iraq mission

NAGOYA, Japan - A member of an Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) unit is greeted by his son and daughters on returning to Komaki air base near Nagoya on March 24 from his three-month Iraq reconstruction support mission.

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Burmese refugee finds life in Japan a struggle

TOKYO, Japan - Tin Win (R in back) poses for a photograph with his son Demo (L in back), his wife Tin Nwe Oo (C in back) and his two daughters -- Nay Yi (L in front) and Nay Mar. Tin Win 47, a native from Burma (currently called Myanmar) received refugee status from the Japanese government three years ago. By Toshihiro Ariyoshi

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(1)Wife of Daiei Hawks manager Oh dies

TOKYO, Japan - Kyoko Oh (file photo taken in 1977), wife of Daiei Hawks manager Sadaharu Oh, died of stomach cancer at a Tokyo hospital on Dec. 11. She was 57. Kyoko, a Tokyo native, married Oh in 1966 when he was batting for the Yomiuri Giants. They had three daughters.

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Hijackers' daughters arrive in Japan

NARITA, Japan - Three daughters of former Red Army Faction members, who hijacked a Japan Airlines (JAL) plane in 1970 and forced it to fly to North Korea, sit for a news conference after their arrival at Narita airport May 15. (From L to R) Azumi Tanaka, 22, Asaka Tamiya, 22, and Ritsuko Konishi, 23. On the flight to Narita, Tamiya, in an interview with Kyodo News, described the hijacking committed by her father and other members of the radical group as ''senseless'' and ''wrong.''

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Hijackers' daughters leave N. Korea for Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Three daughters of former Red Army Faction cadres are seen in photo taken by a supporter in March in Pyongyang. Shown are Asaka Tamiya (L), 22, daughter of Takamaro Tamiya, deceased leader of the hijackers' group; Azumi Tanaka (C), 22, daughter of Yoshimi Tanaka; and Ritsuko Konishi, 23, daughter of Takahiro Konishi. The three daughters, whose fathers defected to North Korea after hijacking a Japan Airlines plane in 1970, left Pyongyang on May 15 for Japan via China.

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Travel documents for hijackers' 3 daughters issued

BEIJING, China - Yukio Yamanaka shows off in Beijing on April 30 travel documents issued by the Japanese Embassy in Beijing to three daughters of former Red Army Faction members for entry into Japan. The former terrorists were granted political asylum in North Korea after they hijacked a Japan Airlines plane in 1970. Yamanaka, leader of a support group for them, filed applications for the documents at the embassy in December.

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3 children die in predawn Sendai fire

SENDAI, Japan - Firefighters stand in front of a two-story house in Aoba Ward, Sendai, northern Japan, gutted by a predawn fire on Dec. 21. The three victims of the fire, which broke out around 5:20 a.m., are two daughters and a son of a man who runs a restaurant on the first floor of the wooden house.

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CHINA-JIANGSU-MARTIAL ARTS-ENTHUSIAST (CN)

(220823) -- XUZHOU, Aug. 23, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Liu Long's daughters Liu Yiting, Liu Yidian (up) and son Liu Yixing (C) have a break during training in Liuzhuang Village of Pizhou City, east China's Jiangsu Province, Aug. 16, 2022. Liu Long, 35, is a Chinese martial arts enthusiast. He found that his three children were also interested in martial arts and often imitated the action of him when he was practicing, so he began to take the three children to do martial arts training. Local villagers also sent their children to learn martial arts from Liu. As more and more children came to learn martial arts, Liu and his wife Gu Dandan founded a martial arts training class. Liu hoped that the children could grow up healthily and happily, and that martial arts could become their lifelong hobby. (Xinhua/Ji Chunpeng)

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Xinjiang, My home: A family workshop promoting ethnic embroidery to outside world

STORY: Xinjiang, My home: A family workshop promoting ethnic embroidery to outside world DATELINE: March 27, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:05 LOCATION: SHIHEZI, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): AIKYN MAMERHAN STORYLINE: SOUNDBITE (Chinese): AIKYN MAMERHAN "My name is Aikyn Mamerhan. I'm in charge of an embroidery cooperative in Shihezi Village. We specialize in producing ethnic Kazakh embroidery products. I have three daughters. The oldest one has taken a job after graduating from university. And this is the elder one of the twin sisters and this is the younger one. This is my wife. We usually shoot some short videos and post them through (short-video platform) Douyin to promote our ethnic embroidery products. I can fix the sewing machine myself. The sewing machine, as you can see, the part is broken. We should put it inside properly, push it up, and then turn the screw. It's easy. Now it's done. These are my twin daughters. They are at junior high school and they are good at studying. My w

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Daily Life In Kabul - Afghanistan

Father with his three daughters on his bicycle in ths streets of Kabul Kabul, Afghanistan, September 15, 2021. Photo by Oriane Zerah/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Hijackers' daughters arrive in Japan

NARITA, Japan - Three daughters of former Red Army Faction members, who hijacked a Japan Airlines (JAL) plane in 1970 and forced it to fly to North Korea, sit for a news conference after their arrival at Narita airport May 15. (From L to R) Azumi Tanaka, 22, Asaka Tamiya, 22, and Ritsuko Konishi, 23. On the flight to Narita, Tamiya, in an interview with Kyodo News, described the hijacking committed by her father and other members of the radical group as ''senseless'' and ''wrong.''

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Travel documents for hijackers' 3 daughters issued

BEIJING, China - Yukio Yamanaka shows off in Beijing on April 30 travel documents issued by the Japanese Embassy in Beijing to three daughters of former Red Army Faction members for entry into Japan. The former terrorists were granted political asylum in North Korea after they hijacked a Japan Airlines plane in 1970. Yamanaka, leader of a support group for them, filed applications for the documents at the embassy in December.

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GEORGIA RULE

GEORGIA RULE [US 2007] [L-R] FELICITY HUFFMAN, JANE FONDA, LINDSAY LOHAN Date: 2007

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3-generation German shepherd family takes exam to become police dogs

Six German shepherds from the same family -- the 7-year-old mother, her two 4-year-old daughters and three 2-year-old grandchildren -- pose after taking part in an examination to become part-time police dogs in Saitama, north of Tokyo, on April 13, 2015. Results will be announced in late May. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Families in tsunami-hit town then and now

Combined photo shows Sayaka Sugawara (C) and her daughters Sara (R) and Sena, sitting on what was left of their family-run inn in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan on June 8, 2011 (top), after it was washed away by a massive tsunami three months earlier, and six years later on Feb. 18, 2017, as they stand in front of their rebuilt inn as it marked five years of operation. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Filipino dad hopes missing child is alive, 2 yrs after Haiyan

Marvin Isanan, 44, shows Kyodo News on Oct. 28, 2015, a photo of his children at his home in the central Philippine city of Tacloban on Leyte island. The photo pictures his three daughters who either died or went missing during super typhoon Haiyan. Isanan still hopes that his eldest daughter, who remains unaccounted for, is alive and will return home. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Gangster sentenced to death for fatal shooting of Nagasaki mayor

NAGASAKI, Japan - The three daughters of Nagasaki Mayor Itcho Ito, who was shot to death by Tetsuya Shiroo during his election campaign on April 17 in 2007, enters the Nagasaki District Court in Nagasaki on May 26 to hear the sentence in Shiroo's trial. The court sentenced the 60-year-old gangster to death for the shooting. (Kyodo)

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Ex-abductees express joy over coming reunions with children

TOKYO, Japan - Four of the five repatriated abductees expressed joy in Tokyo on May 22 over the reunions to take place later in the day with their sons and daughters, when Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi returns home from Pyongyang after talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. But they also expressed unhappiness that the three family members of a former abductee, Hitomi Soga (C), will not be coming to Japan at this time. The four are (from L to R) Yasushi Chimura and his wife Fukie, Yukiko Hasuike and her husband Kaoru. (Kyodo)

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Japanese hot-spring area makes 'happi' coats for Obama family

NAGASAKI, Japan - The proprietress of a Japanese-style inn Yumiko Kusano (2nd from L) and three members of a tourism association in the Obama hot-spring area of Unzen, Nagasaki Prefecture, pose Jan. 14 wearing and showing blue ''happi'' coats. They specially made them for U.S. President-elect Barack Obama, his wife Michelle and their two daughters to celebrate his upcoming inauguration. Kusano is secretary general of the group ''Change Obama no kai (Change Obama association)'' which consists of proprietresses and other local people. The group tailored the Japanese coats, with ''President Obama'' written on one of the collars and ''Nagasaki, Obama Hot Spring'' on the other in white for the couple, getting their measurements via the Internet. (Kyodo)

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A mother and her daughters

This is a studio photograph of three women, apparently a mother and her two daughters. The women in the middle wears a striped kimono, while the women to the right and left wear kimono with maple-leaf and bright flower designs, respectively. This is a coloured photograph produced with the taste of foreigners in mind.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number50‐8‐0]

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A mother and her daughters

This is a studio photograph of three women, probably a mother and her two daughters. Mt. Fuji is painted on the curtain in the back. This is a typical coloured souvenir photograph produced for foreign visitors. The floral hairpins, sash tied in the darari-musubi style and wooden clogs were all popular among girls of the Meiji Period.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Tamamura Kozaburo, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number48‐34‐0]

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Bild newspaper, Karel Gott

Czech singer Karel Gott currently can not imagine that he would sing again. He said it in an interview published in the most widely read German newspaper Bild (pictured) on December 2, 2015. Gott was diagnosed with cancer of the lymph nodes, but he said that he has a ninety percent chance of survival. Gott, 76, will now undergo another series of chemotherapy sessions.Gott underwent the first series of chemotherapy in November, when he spent three weeks in a hospital. Then he was recovering in home care.Despite doctors' recommendations, Gott attended the award-giving ceremony in the State Opera in Prague on December 28 to receive personally his 40th Czech Nightingale.The disease was uncovered during urgent abdominal surgery in early November and doctors immediately started targeted oncological treatment.Gott, who has stayed at the top of Czech pop music for half a century and also has a number of fans abroad, mainly in Germany (die goldene Stimme aus Prag), is the winner of 40 Golden or Czech Nightingale top pop singer prizes awarded in Czechoslovakia and in the Czech Republic.Former Czech president Vaclav Klaus decorated Gott with a state award for contribution to Czech culture in 2009.Gott has two adult daughters by his former girl-friends. In January 2008 he married Ivana Machackova in Las Vegas. They have two daughters, born in 2006 and 2008. (CTK Photo/Jakub Strihavka) ***FILE PHOTO*** Most popular Czech pop singer Karel Gott died at 80 on Tuesday, October 1, 2019, before midnight at home in his family circle, in Prague, Czech Republic, his spokeswoman Stolzova said on October 2, 2019.

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Bild newspaper, Karel Gott

Czech singer Karel Gott currently can not imagine that he would sing again. He said it in an interview published in the most widely read German newspaper Bild (pictured) on December 2, 2015. Gott was diagnosed with cancer of the lymph nodes, but he said that he has a ninety percent chance of survival. Gott, 76, will now undergo another series of chemotherapy sessions.Gott underwent the first series of chemotherapy in November, when he spent three weeks in a hospital. Then he was recovering in home care.Despite doctors' recommendations, Gott attended the award-giving ceremony in the State Opera in Prague on December 28 to receive personally his 40th Czech Nightingale.The disease was uncovered during urgent abdominal surgery in early November and doctors immediately started targeted oncological treatment.Gott, who has stayed at the top of Czech pop music for half a century and also has a number of fans abroad, mainly in Germany (die goldene Stimme aus Prag), is the winner of 40 Golden or Czech Nightingale top pop singer prizes awarded in Czechoslovakia and in the Czech Republic.Former Czech president Vaclav Klaus decorated Gott with a state award for contribution to Czech culture in 2009.Gott has two adult daughters by his former girl-friends. In January 2008 he married Ivana Machackova in Las Vegas. They have two daughters, born in 2006 and 2008. (CTK Photo/Jakub Strihavka) ***FILE PHOTO*** Most popular Czech pop singer Karel Gott died at 80 on Tuesday, October 1, 2019, before midnight at home in his family circle, in Prague, Czech Republic, his spokeswoman Stolzova said on October 2, 2019.

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(1)Wife of Daiei Hawks manager Oh dies

TOKYO, Japan - Kyoko Oh (file photo taken in 1977), wife of Daiei Hawks manager Sadaharu Oh, died of stomach cancer at a Tokyo hospital on Dec. 11. She was 57. Kyoko, a Tokyo native, married Oh in 1966 when he was batting for the Yomiuri Giants. They had three daughters.

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33rd anniversary of JAL crash

Shingo Tabuchi and his wife make an offering to the grave marker of their three daughters erected at the site of the 1985 Japan Airlines jumbo jet crash on Osutaka Ridge in Gunma Prefecture on Aug. 12, 2018, the 33rd anniversary of the accident. The Tabuchis lost their daughters in the deadliest single-aircraft accident in history, which claimed the lives of 520 people. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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(1)Soga reunited with husband, 2 daughters from Pyongyang

JAKARTA, Japan - Repatriated Japanese abductee Hitomi Soga (top L) was reunited with her American husband Charles Jenkins (top R) and their two North Korean-born daughters, Mika (bottom L) and Belinda (bottom R), on July 9 for the first time in 21 months, after the three arrived in Jakarta from Pyongyang on a Japanese government-chartered plane. The Photos were released by the Japanese government. (Kyodo)

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(3)ASDF members return from 3-month Iraq mission

NAGOYA, Japan - A member of an Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) unit is greeted by his son and daughters on returning to Komaki air base near Nagoya on March 24 from his three-month Iraq reconstruction support mission. (Kyodo)