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
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The global flagship store for Kura Sushi, a Japanese conveyor-belt sushi restaurant chain, is pictured here in January 2020 in Tokyo. Conveyor-belt sushi restaurants have been the target of a spate of pranks. Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Japanese steakhouses often serve a creamy orange-pink sauce alongside a steaming meal. The popularity and intrigue around the sauce led one teppanyaki restaurant owner, Terry Ho, to start bottling it in bulk under the name Yum Yum Sauce. Olivia Falcigno/NPR hide caption
President Trump and first lady Melania arrive in Tokyo. North Korea and trade are expected to be on the weekend's agenda. Koji Sasahara/AP hide caption
A researcher examines the underwater hull of the USS Hornet CV-8, which played a role in several key events of World War II. Photo courtesy of Paul G. Allen's Vulcan Inc hide caption
Beloved in eastern Asia, especially Japan, persimmons get little respect in the United States, where many tree owners don't bother harvesting their crop. Alastair Bland/for NPR hide caption
Mongee bananas reportedly sell for $6 each in Japan. Right now, they're very much a boutique crop. Courtesy of D&T Farm Inc. hide caption
Empty sake bottles lined up outside a restaurant in the Daikanyama area of Tokyo. Graham Crouch/Getty Images/Lonely Planet Image hide caption
U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Okinawa, Japan. Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Japanese Wagyu beef has a sweet, coconut-like aroma. Scientists found 16 compounds associated with the smell, 10 of which are newly associated with the meat. Martin Bureau/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Richard Goo, whose parents emigrated from China, was stationed in Japan as part of the U.S. occupation after World War II. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
Elise tries robo toilets in Japan. Illustration by CJ Riculan/NPR hide caption
Our group was made up of Americans of Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean descent. All together, we were eight adults and six children, all boys. Melissa Hung for NPR hide caption
Komada holds a netsuke that is about two-thirds of the way finished. It takes up to two months to create one carving. Maia Stern/NPR hide caption
The Comfort Woman statue, with bird on shoulder, beside an empty chair symbolizing survivors who are of an old age without having yet witnessed judgement, in Glendale, California. Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Pribilof Island residents evacuated on U.S. Army Transport Delarof, in June 1942. National Archives, General Records of the Department of the Navy hide caption
In 2004 Reid Brewer of the University of Alaska Southeast measured an unusual beaked whale that turned up dead in Alaska's Aleutian Islands. A tissue sample from the carcass later showed that the whale was one of the newly identified species. Don Graves hide caption
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Boston on Monday. Dominick Reuter/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
U.S. and Japanese flags are raised during a joint memorial ceremony in Ogasawara, Tokyo, on March 21, to mark the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima, one of World War II's bloodiest battles. AFP/Getty Images hide caption