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This combination of photos shows Norman Baker, left, of Delaplane, Va. in Iwo Jima on March 21, 2015 and Yoshiko Shimabukuro, a former member of the Himeyuri Student Nurse Corps, in Itoman, Japan, on March 22, 2015. In Bakers mind, the Japanese were fanatical, brutal animals with no respect for life. To Shimabukuro, Americans were long-nosed demons who rained hellfire from the skies before raping and pillaging anything with the worse-than-death fate of crossing their path. Seventy years ago, both the 18-year-old U.S. Marine and the 17-year-old Okinawan schoolgirl had known the enemy only from the virulent propaganda they had been fed. (Courtesy of Norman Baker via AP, left, AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) (AP)

Iwo Jima vet, Okinawa survivor wrestle with WWII legacy

Eric Talmadge

Sony film took aim at North Korea’s biggest taboo

Eric Talmadge

U.S. Navy's barge YOGN-115, back, is towed by Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force's multi purpose support ship off the coast of Isumi, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, Saturday, March 26, 2011. The barge carrying 1.04 million liters (275,000 gallons) of fresh water departed Commander, Fleet Activities Yokosuka (CFAY) Friday to support cooling efforts at the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. (AP Photo/Yomiuri Shimbun, Yasushi Kanno) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT (AP)

Seawater near Japan plant tests high for radiation

Eric Talmadge, Mari Yamaguchi

Residents pay their last respects to a victim as a van carrying the coffin leaves a temporary morgue at a bowling alley in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture Monday, March 21, 2011 as the death toll continues to rise following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that devastated the northeast coast of Japan. (AP Photo/Mark Baker) (AP)

No quick fix seen at Japan’s nuclear plant

Eric Talmadge, Mari Yamaguchi

In this photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), gray smoke rises from Unit 3 of the tsunami-stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, Monday, March 21, 2011. Official says the TEPCO temporarily evacuated its workers from the site. At left is Unit 2 and at right is Unit 4. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co.) EDITORIAL USE ONLY (AP)

Workers flee Japan nuclear plant as smoke rises

Eric Talmadge, Mari Yamaguchi

A traditional Japanese sandal, worn with formal kimono dress, lies in the rubble in the earthquake and tsunami destroyed town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan Sunday, March 20, 2011. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder) (AP)

Japan’s disaster toll rises with 18,000 deaths

Eric Talmadge, Mari Yamaguchi

A man watches TV showing a Japanese military helicopter dumping water on the troubled reactors of the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex, at an electronics retail store in Osaka, western Japan, on Thursday, March 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE (AP)

Japan’s nuclear power plant battle may take weeks, U.S. says

Eric Talmadge, Mari Yamaguchi

091117-N-9211M-181 PACIFIC OCEAN (Nov. 17, 2009) Ã± JS Hyuga (DDH 181) steams through the Pacific Ocean during a 26 ship formation photo exercise while Seahawk helicopters from the Chargers, Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron (HS) 14, fly in formation alongside. George Washington, the NavyÃs only permanently forward-deployed aircraft carrier participated in a photo exercise which was the culmination of ANNUALEX 21G, the largest annual bilateral exercise with the U.S. Navy and the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force. (U.S. Navy photo by LT Reann S. Mommsen/RELEASED) (Reann S. Mommsen)

Japanese choppers dump water on stricken reactor

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Japan begins air drop on stricken reactor

Eric Talmadge, Mari Yamaguchi

U.S. says plant’s spent fuel rods dry; Japan says no

Eric Talmadge, Mari Yamaguchi

Japanese emperor addresses nation in rare appearance

Eric Talmadge, Shino Yuasa

An evacuee is screened for radiation exposure at a testing center Tuesday, March 15, 2011, in Koriyama city, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, after a nuclear power plant on the coast of the prefecture was damaged by Friday's earthquake. (AP Photo/Wally Santana) (AP)

Workers evacuate nuke plant due to high radiation

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Japan works to contain nuclear threat after quake

Eric Talmadge, Shino Yuasa

A radiation detector marks 0.6 microsieverts, exceeding normal day data Tuesday March 15, 2011, near Shibuya train station in Tokyo, four days after a strong earthquake damaged a nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE (AP)

Radiation released in Japan threatens 140,000

Eric Talmadge, Shino Yuasa

Officials wearing protective suits chat as they usher people through a radiation emergency scanning center in Koriyama, Japan, Tuesday, March 15, 2011 four days after a giant quake and tsunami struck the country's northeastern coast. (AP Photo/Mark Baker) (AP)

Japan nuclear crisis most perilous since Chernobyl

Eric Talmadge, Shino Yuasa

In this Saturday March 12, 2011, photo released by the Japan Defense Ministry, Japanese troopers escort a local resident as they help the evacuation of stranded people at Tagajo, northeastern Japan, after Friday's earthquake and the ensuing tsunami. (AP Photo/Japan Defense Ministry) EDITORIAL USE ONLY (AP)

Woman, 70, found alive 4 days after Japan tsunami

Eric Talmadge, Shino Yuasa

Police officers wearing gas masks patrol in the area of the Fukushima power plant's Unit 1 in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture (state), northern Japan, Saturday, March 12, 2011, amid fears that a part of the plant could meltdown after being hit by a powerful earthquake and tsunami Friday. (AP Photo/The Yomiuri Shimbun, Kaname Yoneyama) JAPAN OUT, CREDIT MANDATORY (AP)

Meltdown threat rises at Japanese nuclear plant

Eric Talmadge, Mari Yamaguchi

In this image made off Japan's NTV/NNN Japan television footage, smoke ascends from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant's Unit 3 in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, northern Japan, Monday, March 14, 2011. The second hydrogen explosion in three days rocked Japan's stricken nuclear plant Monday, sending a massive column of smoke into the air and wounding 11 workers. (AP Photo/NTV/NNN Japan) MANDATORY CREDIT, JAPAN OUT, TV OUT, NO SALES, EDITORIAL USE ONLY (AP)

Stricken Japan nuclear plant rocked by 2nd blast

Eric Talmadge, Shino Yuasa

A man is scanned for levels of radiation in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, Sunday, March 13, 2011. Friday's quake and tsunami damaged two nuclear reactors at a power plant in the prefecture, and at least one of them appeared to be going through a partial meltdown, raising fears of a radiation leak. (AP Photo/Mark Baker) (AP)

Japan races to avert multiple nuclear meltdowns

Eric Talmadge, Mari Yamaguchi

A man and woman seek information about the safety of relatives at an evacuation center at Rikuzentakada, northeastern Japan, on Saturday March 12, 2011, one day after a giant quake and tsunami struck the country's northeastern coast. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING ALLOWED IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE (AP)

3 evacuees near Japan nuclear plant exposed to radiation

Yuri Kageyama, Eric Talmadge

Sumo wrestler Yamamotoyama is surrounded by Japanese reporters after he was questioned by sumo elders in an emergency meeting at the Ryogoku Kokugikan sumo arena in Tokyo on Wednesday Feb. 2, 2011. Fresh off a gambling scandal that deeply sullied its image, Japan's national sport of sumo wrestling is now grappling with allegations that senior wrestlers and coaches used cell phones to plan how to fix bouts. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, CREDIT MANDATORY, FOR COMMERCIAL USE ONLY IN NORTH AMERICA (AP)

Japan gripped by sumo match-fixing scandal

Eric Talmadge

Manned NATO aircraft attack Pakistan

Sebastian Abbot, Eric Talmadge

Some Pakistanis see U.S. as symbol of woes

Eric Talmadge