. >> reporter: mika yamamoto was killed doing what she loved doing, reporting on the horrors of war. one year after her death, the situation in syria hasn't changed much. >> translator: mika would be sad or even angry over the way things are now. >> reporter: united nations specialists say more than 5,000 people are killed in syria every month, nearly 100,000 since the uprising began. about 1.8 million refugees have fled to neighboring countries. >> translator: it's been 2 1/2 years, and the international community isn't doing anything for us. >> reporter: mika yamamoto tried to make people care. she used to give lectures at her old high school about what she saw in conflict zones. >> translator: many innocent people die without being able to cry for help. the job of journalists is to gather information on what happened to them and tell their stories to the world. >> reporter: inspired by what she heard, she wrote down every word that yamamoto said and read books to learn more about the background of yamamoto's report. >> translator: she changed my perception of daily news. >> report

he was -- and yamamoto yamamoto was talking about 44 bombers. so it was a magnitude greater.okay, so one of the remarkable things about these subs is that they marked the first time they had launched an offensive attack against any enemy. up until 1945, used for either scouting or to sink ships. nobody dreamed that a submarine could be used to attack a city. that is one reason why these submarines were so revolutionary and also why they are relevant today. aside from being an amazing story, they are the historical predecessor of the u.s. regular missile carrying subs from the 1950s, which is shown here. it surfaced just like the e401 and they launched a nuclear missile with these subs. so in other words, a regular missile carrying subs are the direct descendents of these subs. so there is also no denying that these e401 foreshadowed today's ballistic missile carrying submarines. the boomers. the boomers mission is to destroy the land-based targets, including cities. so the story is an surmounting incredible obstacles in the final days of the war and the legacy is really still

free lance journalist yamamoto is reporting from aleppo on august 20th last year. she was killed when opposition forces came under fire. these two men left japan for turkey on sunday. they worked with her for the japan press. they will be based at a refugee camp in neighboring jordan. people have fled syria, and the situation in the conflict zone. they were partners. and he witnessed her death. he says he wants to hand down what she tried to convey through her reports. >> translator: i worked with yamamoto for 17 years. i feel like she's with me again at this time. i'll cover the story with her wishes in mind. >> the two journalists will stay in the region until august 21st. >>> japan's industry ministry will ask a group of experts to reexamine the safety of its plan to bury highly radioactive waste from nuclear power plants. officials began selecting disposal sites in the year 2000. but there's been no progress amid public concerns about safety. the plan calls for burying nuclear waste more than 300 meters underground. the plant's feasibility was based on a report

so yeah, when yamamoto was killed, he was like any other bureaucracy. yamamoto, first of all, as far as pearl harbor goes, the imperial japanese navy did not want to do pearl harbor. they thought it was the craziest thing they've ever seen. they wanted to stop the but the only reason perl harbor happened was yamamoto was the commander-in-chief, he said if you don't accept this plan i will resign. so he forced pearl harbor. when pearl harbor succeeded, and as far as the japanese were concerned it succeeded tremendously, he was a god. he could do whatever he wanted. when he came up with this idea of 18 gigantic underwater aircraft carriers and 44 place, nobody was going to stand in his way at that point. a day were factions in the staff who did not want this plan. they did not think, they just thought, they were very conservative and they thought, you know, a bridge too far so to speak. so when she died, they came out of the woodwork with a long knife and the almost killed the plan. at one point they had scaled back. another point another faction of. ther

yamamoto is considering a trip to two of the four islands. soviet troops seized the territory immediately after world war ii. japan still claims them. government officials hope the visit will add momentum to negotiations for settling the dispute. former japanese residents are allowed to visit the islands without a visa. yamamotoa is expected to take part in an exchange program between them and russian residents. >>> a play depicting a sad chapter in american history has made its overseas debut hiroshima. it's a story of japanese americans inturned in camps in world war ii. japanese-american actors have performed the play for nearly three decades, but wanted to bring the story to the land of their ancestors. nhk world reports. >> who do you want to win the war? >> when your mother and father are having a fight, do you want them to kill each other, or do you just want them to stop fighting? >> reporter: this man is 80 years old and the eldest cast member. he's from the second generation of japanese-americans. his parents emigrated from hiroshim

that is admiral yamamoto. the commander in chief of the imperial japanese navy combined fleet.he was a fascinating guy for those of you who do not know him. he lived in the united states twice during his naval career and he spoke good english. he attended harvard university briefly. >> please move your microphone slightly. >> is that that better? >> just a little but more and. >> okay. >> okay how is that? >> okay. so as i said, he attended harvard very briefly. he read life magazine and he had a good understanding of america. he knew what japan was getting into and as he told the individual at the time, he said that we could guarantee a tough fight for the first six months but i have no confidence after that. it is important to know that he is a gambler. he played billiards and roulette and dejong and it almost did not matter what the game was as long as it had a gambling component. he often threatened to resign to become a full-time professional gambler. that is how good he was. although i'm sure they didn't take his threats seriously, it is important to understand that his l