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Japan holds memorial for multinational laborers who died in reservoir construction

TOKYO, July 27 (Xinhua) -- A memorial ceremony was held Sunday in Japan's Kanagawa Prefecture to commemorate Chinese, Korean Peninsula and other foreign laborers who died during th...

東京大空襲の犠牲者遺骨、墨田区役所で名簿発見　封筒に「永久保存」

JAPAN-KANAGAWA-SAGAMI LAKE RESERVOIR-LABORERS-MEMORIAL CEREMONY

(260727) -- KANAGAWA, July 27, 2026 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on July 26, 2026 shows a scene during a memorial ceremony commemorating Chinese, Korean Peninsula and other foreign...

Man who lost brother in WWII urges people to remember 3.1 million Japanese lives lost

With the war a distant memory for many, Kazuhiko Takahashi marked the 81st anniversary of the war's end with a pledge to pursue peace.

JAL plane crash victims mourned 41 years after accident

Flight 123 — a Boeing 747 bound for Osaka from Tokyo — crashed into a mountain on Aug. 12, 1985, killing 520 people.

子ども3万8千人以上が原爆の犠牲に　一人ひとりの短い人生を追う

Japanese ambassador attends memorial for Burma railway victims

Japan’s ambassador to the Netherlands has attended a ceremony to commemorate labourers who died during the construction of the Siam-Burma...

Victims of 2001 fire in Tokyo’s Kabukicho remembered

Bereaved loved ones paid their respects at the site of the early-morning fire that claimed 44 lives 25 years ago.

ハンセン病患者は「国家の恥」　研究者が語る戦争で隔離が進んだ理由

Battle of Okinawa survivor conveys message of peace through the classroom

As a 14-year-old in May 1945, Kohei Nohara fled his hometown of Haebaru on Okinawa's main island with his relatives to seek refuge as the battle got closer and closer.

‘Everywhere there were pitifully injured people’: how a newly unearthed memoir captures the devastation of Hiroshima

In an exclusive extract from his memoir, Kiyoshi Tanimoto describes the terrifying trip across the city to locate his wife and child• ‘I didn’t want to be a victim of the bomb’: re...

関東大震災から103年、大法要に遺族ら　朝鮮人虐殺の追悼式典も

「らい病患者生き埋め」告白した元軍医　ハンセン病元患者が語る戦争

Akashi crowd crush victims remembered 25 years on

Bereaved relatives, local residents and others offered prayers in front of a memorial on a pedestrian overpass where the crowd crush happened July 21, 2001.

History of housing for Japanese postwar returnees kept alive

Efforts have been made to preserve the history of public housing for Japanese returnees from former Manchuria and elsewhere after the end of World War II.

「希望与えてくれた」　ハンセン病訴訟原告ら、坂口元厚労相を惜しむ

「人間の悲劇に満ちていた」米歴史学者が語る第2次大戦と日本の終戦

Lasting trauma: A U.S. military jet’s crash into Okinawa school

Yoko Iha, then a sixth grader whose psychological trauma from the event persisted for decades, has shared her experience for the first time.

2 killed in blast were told to return to mall

TOKYO >> Two store employees who died in the explosion July 28 at the Aeon Mall Kumamoto shopping complex were directed by the store’s company to go back inside the mall afte...

Tzu Chi emergency aid arrives in Japan to assist quake survivors

U.S. Forces airlift water for Kumamoto earthquake victims

The operation sent about 33,000 bottles of drinking water to the area.

Two taken to hospital after apartment blast in Chiba

One of the two suffered severe burns over the entire body, while the other sustained lacerations from broken glass.

進まぬ強制不妊手術の補償、認定は2%ほど　被害者にどう知らせる？

Civic group leads efforts over 1942 undersea mine disaster

The Japanese and South Korean governments have begun DNA analysis of remains collected from the site after the group requested such research.