Japan | 80th Anniversary

People dressed in black bow their heads during a memorial service.

WWII POWs remembered in Yokohama on 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender

On the 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II, the names of more than 1,000 troops who died as prisoners of war were read aloud Tuesday during a memorial ceremony at the Commonwealth War Cemetery.

Portrait of Brig. Gen. Anna Mae Hays, chief of the Army Nurse Corps, taken in February 1971 during an interview at Zama Hospital in Japan during a Far East inspection tour that also included stops in Korea and Vietnam. Eight months earlier, on June 11, 1970, Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington of the Women’s Army Corps made history when they became the first women to attain the rank of brigadier general in the U.S. Army. (Technically, Hays was the first by a few minutes.)

1971 | The General is a Lady: Chief of Army Nurse Corps tours Asia

The first woman general in the 196-year history of the U.S. Army, Brig. Gen. Anna M. Hays, chief of the Army Nurse Corps, said Tuesday that it was wrong to compare her job to that of a division commander because she functions purely in a staff position despite the fact that she has roughly 21,000 people under her supervision.

Rep. Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) greets one of the 400-some relatives in his ancestral village of Yokoyama, Japan. The Hawaiian congressman met many of the 2,200 villagers of Yokoyama — some 400 of whom are named Inouye.

1960: Young athletes compete in Junior Olympics at Tachikawa Air Base, Japan

Rep. Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) Sunday visited the mountain village of Yokoyama — the birthplace of his father and where some of his uncles and cousins still live.

Tachikawa Air Base, Japan, Oct. 22, 1960: Standard of Athens leads Junior Olympic paraders at Tachi West Track at Tachikawa Air Base, Japan, Saturday, Oct. 22, 1960. Behind these athletes are competitors from teams named for Argos, Corinth, Thebes, Sparta and other ancient Greek cities.

1960: Young athletes compete in Junior Olympics at Tachikawa Air Base, Japan

Seven sixth grade classes from the Tachikawa Air Base, Japan, Dependent Elementary School got together at the Tachikawa West Track Saturday, Oct. 22, 1960, for the Junior Olympics, their own version of the athletic classic.

View of Kyoto and Lake Biwa from Mount Hiei in March 1955.

City of Peace — Historic Kyoto, Tourists’, Photographers’ Paradise

Kyoto — the city of peace — is a haven for tourists and a paradise for photographers. The capital of Japan from 794 A.D. to 1868, Kyoto is dotted with 1,400 temples and shrines — almost a third of those in the entire nation.

Crew members examine the crushed remains of the Banshee jet

Jet pilot ‘vanishes’ in crash on carrier

Aboard the USS Oriskany off Okinawa — The Navy Banshee slid into the groove blinking its wing lights as it dipped for a landing.

An unidentified burn victim is carried on a stretcher

1 Marine killed, 41 hurt in fire

Typhoon Tip trigged a freak fire here Friday [Oct. 19, 1979] that killed a Marine and injured at least 41 other persons, according to Marine officials.