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GWANGJU, South Korea Local researchers here are examining hundreds of rare photos taken by a Japanese photographer of protesters brutally oppressed by the military in 1980 in an uprising in South Korea’s struggle for democracy.
Asahi Shimbun offices around the country observed a moment of silence May 3 in memory of a colleague who was gunned down in the company’s Hanshin Bureau in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, on May 3, 1987, by a member of an extremist group.