The author of “Barefoot Gen”, a famous comic strip depicting the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, died of lung cancer at the age of 73 on December 19th.

A secret code letter written in 1812 by French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte vowing to “blow up Moscow’s Kremlin” sold for 187,500 euros, 10 times the expected price, on Sunday at Paris auction.

After five and a half years of restoration work, the Tokyo Station Marunouchi Building, famous for its classic red-brick structure, is now preparing for the grand re-opening on October 1.

Kon Ichikawa, the Japanese film director known for such films as “Harp of Burma” and “Tokyo Olympiad,” died of pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital Wednesday. He was 92.