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Toshiyuki Mimaki, 83, co-chair of Nihon Hidankyo, a Nobel Peace Prize-winning group of a-bomb survivors in Japan, sits outside his farmhouse, about 10 miles outside the city of Hiroshima. Anthony Kuhn/NPR hide caption
A Japanese nuclear bomb survivor shares his story, 80 years after WWII
Hideo Shimizu L visits the Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crime Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Aug. 13, 2024. After a 79-year hiatus, Hideo Shimizu, a former member of Unit 731, the notorious Japanese germ-warfare detachment during World War II, returned to China to acknowledge the atrocities committed by the invading Japanese forces and to offer sincere repentance and apologies to the victims. Wang Jianwei/Xinhua via Getty Images hide caption
New details emerge about Japan's notorious WWII germ warfare program
A visitor lights incense sticks at the Peace Memorial Park ahead of the memorial service to mark the 80th anniversary of the WWII U.S. atomic bombing in Hiroshima, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025, in Japan. Louise Delmotte/AP hide caption
A traffic jam forms in Honolulu on Tuesday, July 29, 2025, as people heed a tsunami evacuation warning that coincided with rush hour following a powerful earthquakes in Russia's Far East early Wednesday. AP/AP hide caption
President Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba hold a joint press conference at the White House on Feb. 7 in Washington, D.C. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images hide caption
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FILE - Takahiro Shiraishi leaves a police station in Hachioji, suburbs of Tokyo, in November 2017. Takuya Inaba/Kyodo News/AP hide caption
People await the update on ispace's private lunar lander's attempt to touch down on the moon Friday, June 6, 2025, in Tokyo, Japan. Kyodo News/AP hide caption
The flag of Japan (right) hangs outside the New York Stock Exchange on May 5, 2008, in honor of Ryozo Kato, the ambassador of Japan to the United States at the time, ringing the opening bell. Stan Honda/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Japan's Agriculture Minister Taku Eto, center, arrives at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Wednesday, May 21, 2025. Kyodo News/AP hide caption
Brain-controlled iPhones, a Japanese asset buy-a-thon, and Trump tax cut debt
Traders works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, on April 7, 2025. Wall Street stocks were volatile after global markets fell sharply on Monday. Timothy A. Clary / AFP via Getty Images/AFP hide caption
President Trump speaks during a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba following talks, in the East Room of the White House on Friday. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba arrives at Joint Base Andrews, Md., on Thursday. Kevin Wolf/FR33460 AP hide caption
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba to meet with President Trump
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off with a payload of a pair of lunar landers at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. John Raoux/AP hide caption
Police officers work near a vehicle, center, which was stuck against a barricade near the prime minister's office, background, in Tokyo on Saturday. Kyodo News/AP hide caption
Toshiyuki Mimaki, the co-chair of Nihon Hidankyo, at a press conference after the group was awarded the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, in Hiroshima Friday. STR/JIJI PRESS/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
2024 Nobel Peace Prize is won by the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo
Shigeru Ishiba speaks before a runoff election at the Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) leadership election on Friday, at the party headquarters in Tokyo. Hiro Komae/AP hide caption
Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki smiles during a press conference in Tokyo on March 1, 2019, after a vote on the relocation of a U.S. base on the island on Feb. 25. Behrouz Mehri/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Okinawa's governor strives for regional diplomacy as tensions in Asia-Pacific rise
Hachiro Koganezawa, 90, farms flowers and vegetables on a plot of land outside Nanmoku in Japan. (Anthony Kuhn/NPR) Anthony Kuhn/NPR hide caption
How Japan is trying to solve the problem of shrinking villages
Blues singer Davina Robinson (left) and World Cafe host Raina Douris. Kimberly Junod/WXPN hide caption
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