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FILE - In this Oct. 10, 1964 file photo, Japanese runner Yoshinori Sakai lights the Olympic cauldron during the opening ceremony of the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Sakai was born in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, the day the nuclear weapon destroyed that city. He symbolized the rebirth of Japan after the Second World War as he opened the 1964 Tokyo Games. Sakai was born in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, the day the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city. Just over 19 years later, he ran with the Olympic flame into the national stadium, left the cinder track, and jogged up a long flight of flower-lined stairs to reach the top. (AP Photo/File)

Man born in Hiroshima lights 1964 Tokyo Olympic cauldron

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

In this image made from video, Koko Kondo speaks during an video interview from Miki city, western Japan, on July 30, 2020. Kondo was determined to find the person who dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, western Japan, the person that caused the suffering and the terrible facial burns of the girls at her father’s church - and then square off and punch them in the face. Ten-year-old Kondo appeared on an American TV show called “This is Your Life” that was featuring her father, Rev. Kiyoshi Tanimoto, one of six survivors profiled in John Hersey’s book “Hiroshima.” Kondo stared in hatred at another guest: Capt. Robert Lewis, co-pilot of B-29 bomber Enola Gay that dropped the bomb. (AP Photo)

Hiroshima survivors worry that world will forget

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Illustration on Hiroshima by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Our annual August debate over America’s use of atomic bombs

By Victor Davis Hanson

FILE - In this Aug. 6, 1945, file photo, smoke rises 20,000 feet above Hiroshima, western Japan, after the first atomic bomb was dropped during warfare. Hiroshima was targeted because it was a major Japanese military hub filled with military bases and ammunition facilities. The city of Hiroshima on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the world’s first nuclear attack. (AP Photo, File)

5 things to know as Hiroshima marks 75th A-bomb anniversary

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Kazumi Matsui, right, mayor of Hiroshima, and the family of the deceased bow before they place the victims list of the Atomic Bomb at Hiroshima Memorial Cenotaph during the ceremony to mark the 75th anniversary of the bombing at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020, in Hiroshima, western Japan. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Survivors mark 75th anniversary of world’s 1st atomic attack

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Michiko Kodama, assistant secretary-general of the Japan Confederation of A and H Bomb Sufferers' Organizations, prepares to narrate her experience on a livestream of &quot;Kataribe&quot; or story-telling session Sunday, July 12, 2020, in Tokyo. “For me, the war is not over yet,” said Michiko Kodama, 82, who survived the bombing but has lost most of her relatives from cancer, including one of her two daughters. Years after the atomic bombing, a receptionist at a clinic near Tokyo noted Kodama's “hibakusha” medical certificate in a loud voice, and a patient sitting next to her in a waiting room moved away from her. The fear of death, prejudice and discrimination at work and in marriage continues, and nuclear weapons still exist. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Urgency to bear witness grows for last Hiroshima victims

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

California lawmakers were globetrotters before pandemic

By CUNEYT DIL - Associated Press

This handout photo provided by Chiune Sugihara Memorial Museum, shows a working room in Chiune Sugihara memorial museum in Kaunas, Lithuania, Tuesday, May 12, 2020. A museum in Lithuania dedicated to a Japanese diplomat who saved thousands of Jews in the early hours of World War II, that saw the number of visitors drop due to corona virus outbreak, has been saved by people in Japan, officials said Friday, July 31, 2020. (Chiune Sugihara Memorial Museum via AP)

Japan funds save Lithuania museum on diplomat who saved Jews

By LIUDAS DAPKUS - Associated Press

In this image made from an online news conference provided by U.S. Forces Japan, Lt. Gen. Kevin Schneider, Commander of the U.S. Force, speaks from Yokota Air Base, in Tokyo, to reporters, Wednesday, July 29, 2020. Schneider said Wednesday strict measures were in place among his ranks to curb the spread of the coronavirus by military service personnel entering Japan.(U.S. Forces Japan. via AP)

US commander affirms US support for Japan on China dispute

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

South Korea-Japan trade fight moves to global dispute panel

By JAMEY KEATEN - 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 men wanted by Japan for helping sneak Ghosn out of the country in a box are due back in front of a Boston federal judge on Tuesday, July 28, 2020, to argue for their release from jail. (Meika Fujio/Kyodo News via AP)

2 nabbed in ex-Nissan boss’ escape say they won’t flee US

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER - Associated Press

In this undated photo provided by The Korea Botanical Garden, statues of a man kneeling in front of a girl symbolizing victims of sexual slavery by Japan's World War II military at the Korea Botanical Garden in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The statue has become the latest subject of diplomatic sensitivity between the countries, with Tokyo's top government spokesman questioning whether the figure represents Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (The Korea Botanical Garden via AP)

New statues stoke sensitivity between South Korea, Japan

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

Oklahoma man pleads guilty to assaulting neighbors in Japan

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A child whispers to a woman as they visit an exhibition depicting rovers and bio-domes in Mars, in Beijing Thursday, July 23, 2020. China is expected to launch a rover to Mars in one of three missions to the red planet, one from the U.S. and another by the United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China launches ambitious attempt to land rover on Mars

By Samuel McNeil and Aniruddha Ghosal - Associated Press

A man wearing a mask against the spread of the new coronavirus walks in front of a countdown calendar showing 356 day to start Tokyo 2020 Olympics Thursday, July 23, 2020, in Tokyo. The postponed Tokyo Olympics have again reached the one-year-to-go mark. But the celebration is small this time with more questions than answers about how the Olympics can happen in the middle of a pandemic. That was before COVID-19 postponed the Olympics and pushed back the opening to July 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Postponed Tokyo Olympics hit 1-year-to-go mark — again

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, center left, elbow bumps with European Council President Charles Michel, center right, as German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, walks by during a round table meeting at an EU summit in Brussels, Tuesday, July 21, 2020. Weary European Union leaders are expressing cautious optimism that a deal is in sight as they moved into their fifth day of wrangling over an unprecedented budget and coronavirus recovery fund. (Stephanie Lecocq, Pool Photo via AP)

US virus aid far off as EU digs deep to aid ailing economies

By Elaine Kurtenbach - Associated Press

Japan protests Chinese maritime survey off southern islets

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Mahmood al-Nasser, left, and Mohammad Nasser al-Emadi, center, test the Emirates Mars Mission probe's &quot;flat sat&quot; at the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on Thursday, June 25, 2020. The spacecraft, named Amal, which is Arabic for Hope, is an orbiter scheduled to launch from Japan in July 2020, on what will be the Arab world’s first interplanetary mission. It is scheduled to arrive at Mars in 2021, the year the UAE marks the 50th anniversary of its founding. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

UAE Mars mission liftoff on Japan rocket reset for Monday

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 30, 2020, file photo, a man jogs past the Olympic rings in Tokyo. In a message delivered to IOC members, Friday, July 17, 2020, online, Tokyo organizing committee President Yoshiro Mori and CEO Toshiro Muto announced the competition schedule for next year's delayed Tokyo Olympics will remain almost identical to the one that would have been used this year. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Tokyo Olympic venues lined up, schedule remains the same

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

UAE Mars mission from Japan delayed again by weather

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press