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World War II veteran in Maryland looks back on service

By STEVE BOHNEL and The Frederick News-Post - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2020, file photo, former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn speaks to Japanese media during an interview in Beirut, Lebanon. A lawyer for two American men urged a judge Friday, Aug. 28 to block their extradition to Japan, where they are wanted on charges that they smuggled Ghosn out of the country in a box last year. (Meika Fujio/Kyodo News via AP)

Americans fighting extradition in ex-Nissan boss’s escape

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER - Associated Press

In this Sept. 12, 2007, file photo, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe leaves the podium after announcing his resignation at a nationally televised press conference in Tokyo. Prime Minister Abe said Friday, Aug. 28, 2020, he will step down due to his health. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)

Japan’s PM Shinzo Abe says he’s resigning for health reasons

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 21, 2016, file photo, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appears as the Nintendo game character Super Mario during the closing ceremony at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Abe was a star of the closing ceremony of the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, parading before a 70,000 sellout at the Maracana stadium as Nintendo game character Super Mario. It was Abe's humorous invitation to the next Olympics in Tokyo. (Yu Nakajima/Kyodo News via AP, File)

Shinzo Abe — aka ‘Super Mario’ — loses out on Olympics

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

This undated photo provided Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020, by Osaka City Cultural Properties Association shows human bones found at the north section of the &quot;Umeda Grave&quot; burial site in Osaka, western Japan. The photo was taken during the cemetery research between Sept. 2019 and Aug. 2020. Archaeologists have dug up remains of more than 1,500 people, many of them showing signs of death from epidemic, at a site of a 19th century mass grave during excavation ahead of a city development project near a main train station in Osaka, western Japan. (Osaka City Cultural Properties Association via AP)

Remains dug from Japan mass grave suggest epidemic in 1800s

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, center right, arrives at Keio University Hospital in Tokyo Monday, Aug. 24, 2020. Prime Minister Abe on Monday became Japan's longest-serving leader in terms of consecutive days in office, but there was little fanfare, as he visited a hospital for another health checkup amid concerns about his health.(Kyodo News via AP)

Japan’s PM sets mark for days in office amid health concerns

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2020, file photo, tickets for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics are on display, in Tokyo. The unprecedented postponement of the Tokyo Olympics until next year due to the coronavirus pandemic, has left buyers of millions of tickets in a quandary. Tokyo organizers and the International Olympic Committee say the Games will take place, but they have offered few details about how. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Tokyo Games postponement presents quandary for ticket buyers

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

Vehicles are parked before being exported, at a logistics center in Kawasaki, near Tokyo, on Aug. 17, 2020. Japan’s exports plunged 19.2% in July from a year earlier, as the coronavirus pandemic sapped global demand for goods from the third largest economy, government data showed Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020. (Kyodo News via AP)

Japan’s exports plunge amid crush from coronavirus pandemic

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 17, 2020, file photo, containers are piled up at a port in Yokohama, south of Tokyo. Japan’s economy shrank at annual rate of 27.8% in April-June, the worst contraction on record, as the coronavirus pandemic slammed consumption and trade, government data released Monday, Aug. 17, 2020, show. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)

Japan’s economy shrinks at record rate, slammed by pandemic

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

South Korean President Moon Jae-in speaks during the celebration of 75th anniversary of the Liberation Day at Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul Saturday, Aug. 15, 2020. South Korea marked its 75th National Liberation Day on Saturday, which celebrates its independence from Japanese colonial rule following the end of World War II after Japan surrendered. (Chung Sung-jun/Pool Photo via AP)

Moon extends olive branch to Tokyo over wartime history

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 8, 1937, file photo, members of the Chinese 29th Army defend the city behind a hastily constructed sandbag barricade on the Marco Polo Bridge, 14 miles (22.5 kilometer) southwest of Pieping, China, against Japanese attackers. On July 7, Chinese troops fired on Japanese troops at the Marco Polo bridge, a clash between the two countries that led to the Second Sino Japanese War. The Pacific War was so massive and so calamitous that it can be difficult to put it in context. There was the Marco Polo Bridge Incident that triggered the Sino-Japanese War, the Battle of Midway that changed the course of the war and the dramatic flag-raising on Iwo Jima. (AP Photo/File)

Key Pacific War events on 75th anniversary of war’s end

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Worshippers queue to pay respects to the war dead at Yasukuni Shrine Saturday, Aug. 15, 2020, in Tokyo. Japan marked the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Japan marks 75th anniversary of war end with no Abe apology

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 23, 1945, file photo, U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raise an American flag atop Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Japan. Strategically located only 660 miles from Tokyo, the Pacific island became the site of one of the bloodiest, most famous battles of World War II against Japan. The bombs stopped falling 75 years ago, but it is entirely possible - crucial even, some argue - to view the region’s world-beating economies, its massive cultural and political reach and its bitter trade, territory and history disputes all through a single prism: Japan’s aggression in the Pacific during World War II. (AP Photo/Joe Rosenthal, File)

75 years later, can Asia shake off shackles of the past?

By FOSTER KLUG - Associated Press

Fumie Sato poses for picture in her backyard Saturday, Aug. 1, 2020, at her home in Yokohama, Japan. Hours after she heard Emperor Hirohito's Aug. 15 radio speech declaring Japan's defeat at her school ground in Manchuria, China, Sato had to be prepared for honorable suicide with her family, though her father decided his family must live. Two years later she almost became an orphan when her little sister died of illness after their mother and little brother took an earlier boat back to Japan. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)

War’s end meant years of pain for Japanese girl in China

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Kisako Motoki, 86, speaks, looking though a red cellophane depicting what she saw the atmosphere of the night of the Great Tokyo Air Raid on March 10, 1945, during an interview with the Associated Press at the Center for the Tokyo Raids and War Damage in Tokyo Wednesday, July 29, 2020. In Japan, war orphans were punished for surviving. They were bullied. They were called trash, sometimes rounded up by police and put in cages. Some were sent to institutions or sold for labor. They were targets of abuse and discrimination. Now, 75 years after the war's end, some are revealing their untold stories of recovery and pain, underscoring Japan’s failure to help its own people. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

75 years later, Japan war orphans tell of pain, recovery

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

People gather for the cremation ceremony for Japanese war dead in World War II, in Papua province, Indonesia, March, 2013. Seventy-five years after the end of World War II, more than 1 million Japanese war dead are scattered throughout Asia, where the legacy of Japanese aggression still hampers recovery efforts. The missing Japanese make up about half of the 2.4 million soldiers who died overseas during Japan’s military rampage across Asia in the early 20th century. (Kyodo News via AP)

75 years later, 1 million Japanese war dead still missing

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

South Korean Shin Yun-sun shows photos of her 92-year-old mother, Baek Bong-rye, during an interview at her house in Seoul, South Korea Wednesday, July 29, 2020. Shin, 75, has spent decades pestering government officials, digging into records and searching burial grounds on Russia’s desolate Sakhalin island, desperately searching for traces of a father she never met. Shin wants to bring back the remains of her presumably dead father for her ailing mother. Japan's colonial government conscripted Shin's father for forced labor from their farming village in September 1943, when Baek was pregnant with Shin.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

1000s of Korean laborers still lost after WWII, Cold War end

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

List of sports events affected by the coronavirus pandemic

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 11, 2019, file photo, a protester with a banner walks to attend a rally denouncing the Japanese government's decision on their exports to South Korea in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea. The modern legacy of a dark chapter in Japan’s history, when hundreds of thousands of people were brought from the Korean Peninsula and other Asian nations to work in logging, in mines, on farms and in factories as forced labor, lives on in the companies that came to dominate the Japanese economy after World War II. Many of those companies are still facing demands for compensation that they say were settled by treaty decades ago. The sign reads &quot;The shameless Japanese company should immediately compensate for its war crimes in accordance with the Supreme Court ruling.&quot; (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

Japan’s legacy of forced labor haunts ties with neighbors

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2020, file photo, former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn speaks to Japanese media during an interview in Beirut, Lebanon. Two American men wanted by Japan on charges that they helped sneak former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn out of the country in a box have again been denied release from a U.S. jail. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani on Friday, Aug. 7, rejected a bid to release Michael Taylor and Peter Taylor on bail while they fight their extradition to Japan. (Meika Fujio/Kyodo News via AP)

2 accused in ex-Nissan boss’ escape denied release from jail

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER - Associated Press