Actor and martial arts star Jackie Chan at the benefit concert in Hong Kong, in support of Tiananmen Square protesters - 1989

Red Army infantry marching through the main street of Kiev, Ukraine, following the liberation of the city from German forces - 1943

Korean children play near a church in North Pyongan Province, Japanese Korea (present-day North Korea) - 1930s

A South Korean soldier forcibly cuts a young man's hair in front of others during a nationwide crackdown on men with long hair and women wearing short skirts in South Korea - 1970s

Emperor of Japan Hirohito and Empress Nagako with their children and grandchildren - 1970s

A South Korean Police officer measures a woman's skirt length during a nationwide crackdown on men with long hair and women wearing short skirts in South Korea - 1970s

First Lady of South Korea Yuk Young-soo slumps down after being shot by a North Korean sympathiser, during an assasination attempt on her husband President of South Korea Park Chung-hee, on Korean Independence Day ceremony at the National Theater of Korea in Seoul - 1974

Korean children at the Malli-dong neighbourhood, in Seoul, South Korea - 1959

A Japanese Geisha wearing a kimono and sitting with her Samisen, a traditional string instrument - 1950

Nancy Pelosi with U.S President John F. Kennedy, during Kennedy’s inauguration as president - 1961

Street in Hong Kong - 1950s

Japanese scientists of Unit 731 conduct germ warfare experiments on Chinese children in Jilin Province, Manchukuo - 1940

Russian prisoners of war during the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War, at a POW camp in Japan - 1900s

Masako Owada (current Empress of Japan), with her friends at a kindergarten in Moscow, Soviet Union - 1967

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter shares a boat ride with North Korean leader Kim Il-sung, at the Taedong River in Pyongyang. This photo was taken weeks before Kim’s death on July 8 - 1994

Emperor of Japan Hirohito puts specimens on a slide under the microscope, in his marine biology laboratory - 1954

Japanese Crown prince Akihito and Crown princess Michiko pose with Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako, following their wedding in Tokyo - 1959

Two children crying next to the dead body of their mother during the Korean War - 1950s

South Korean orphans arrive in Tokyo, for a brief stopover before heading to Hollywood, to attend the screening of the Korean War movie 'Battle Hymn', in which these orphans starred in - 1956

Two U.S. Army staff sergeants passing food through a barbed wire fence to Korean children begging at the perimeter of a military camp, during the Korean War - 1952

Wedding ceremony of Japanese crown prince Akihito and and crown princess Michiko. The prince and princess are wearing the traditional attires of Sokutai and Jūnihitoe - 1958

Mao Zedong swimming at the Yangtze River - 1956

Chernobyl plant directors Viktor Bryukhanov (left), Anatoly Dyatlov (center), and chief engineer Nikolai Fomin, during their court trial following the 1986 nuclear disaster - 1987

Young refugees of the Korean War - 1950s

Tsarivich Nicholas (future Tsar Nicholas II of Russia) in Nagasaki, Japan - 1891

B-29 Superfortress of the 20th Bomb Group trailing smoke with No. 4 engine feathered, during a bombing raid over Kobe, Japan - 1945

Emperor of Japan Akihito and Empress Michiko visit the Great Wall of China - 1992

Albert Einstein and his wife Elsa, at their residence in Pasadena, California - 1931

A young Japanese girl wearing a typical Geisha kimono sits playing the “Shamisen”, a traditional Japanese string instrument - 1950s

FBI director J. Edgar Hoover in a Mickey Mouse mask during a New Year’s Eve party - 1938

Japanese Crown princess Michiko with her daughter Princess Sayako - 1970s

Night scene in Ginza, Tokyo - 1960s

Unidentified Beijing youths sing as they head to Tiananmen Square to join the pro-democracy protests - 1989

A Korean child encounters an American soldier, who is patrolling the ruined streets of Inchon, South Korea, after its capture following an UN offensive attack against North Korean forces in the city, during the Korean War - 1950

Wiesław Chrzanowski, an officer in the Polish Home Army, at a townhouse on Wilcza Street in Warsaw, during the Warsaw Uprising - 1944

Mickey Mouse and Emperor Hirohito of Japan at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, in a trip aimed to improve Hirohito's image in the United States - 1975

Japanese prince Konoe Fumimaro dressed as Adolf Hitler at a costume party, shortly before he was named Japan’s prime minister - 1937

Japanese nurses with Polish orphans, who were rescued from Siberia during the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War - 1920s

A South Korean Police officer, at the Myeong-dong neigbourhood of Seoul, scrutinizes a passer-by's hair length during a nationwide crackdown on men with long hair and women wearing short skirts in South Korea - 1970s

South Korean soldiers practice Taekwondo at a base in South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War - 1960s

Emperor of Japan Hirohito and Empress Nagako with their children, at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo - 1939

U.S. Marine Corps M4 Sherman setting fire to Japanese military aircraft in Sasebo, Japan, during the Allied occupation of Japan - 1945

Japanese soldiers conducting a funeral ceremony with military honors for a Russian Army captain at Antung, China (present day Dandong, China), during the 1904-05 Russo-Japanese War - 1900s

Japanese crown prince Akihito and future crown princess Michiko Shōda at a tennis club in Azabu, Tokyo - 1958

Japanese royal guards carrying a palanquin containing Emperor Hirohito's body, during his funeral service in Tokyo - 1989

Actor Jean-Claude Van Damme with actress Ming Na-Wen, at the opening of Planet Hollywood in Hong Kong - 1994

Future Emperor of Japan Hirohito, sits in his biology lab in the Akasaka Imperial Palace, at the time of his Regency - 1926

Edward, Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII, with Japanese Prince Regent Hirohito, later Emperor Shōwa, at the Tokyo Golf Club - 1922

Queen Elizabeth II and Japanese Emperor Hirohito, ride a carriage from Victoria Station to Buckingham Palace. London, England (1971)

A street vendor sells goods on a busy sidewalk in Heijō, Japanese Korea (present-day Pyongyang, North Korea) - 1920s

Pu Yi, the last emperor of Qing Dynasty and the former head of Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo during World War II, at the Fushun War Criminals Detention Center in Liaoning Province, China - 1956

Koreans from the Soviet Far East at a collective farm in Uzbek SSR (present-day Uzbekistan), following their forced deportation from the Soviet Far East to Soviet Central Asia by the NKVD, under the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin - 1937

Chinese Red Guards burn religious texts that have been taken from Buddhist volumes in homes and temples, at Sungchöra, the former teaching courtyard outside the Jokhang temple in Tibet, during the Cultural Revolution - 1966

Actresses Ming-Na Wen and Kylie Minogue as Chun-li and Cammy in the movie Street Fighter - 1994

Family of a passenger onboard Korean Air Lines flight 007 mourning, after hearing the news that the plane was shot down over Soviet airspace on September 1st, with no survivors among its 269 passengers and crew - 1983

Chinese Marshal Peng Dehuai, who had commanded the Chinese Army during Korean War and was purged after his criticism of Mao Zedong's policies during the Great Leap Forward, is being dragged by Red Guards to a public humiliation ceremony in Beijing, during the Cultural Revolution - 1960s

South Vietnamese babies on a flight from Saigon, South Vietnam to San Francisco, United States, during Operation Babylift, the mass evacuation of children from South Vietnam at the end of the Vietnam War - 1975

Moon Jae-in with his girlfriend and future wife Kim Jung-sook. Moon Jae-in is the current President of South Korea - 1970s

American prisoners of war march down a street in North Korea, following their capture by Communist forces during the Korean War - 1950s

A captured Chinese tank crewman under guard by a Vietnamese soldier, during the Sino-Vietnamese War - 1979

Martial arts legend Bruce Lee with his son Brandon - 1960s

North Korean leader Kim Il-sung at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw, Poland - 1984

Korean "comfort women" who survived and rescued by Allied units from Japanese forces, at Yunnan Province, China - 1945

A South Vietnamese soldier punches a captured Viet Cong guerrilla during an operation in Quảng Nam Province, during the Vietnam War - 1965

Residents from Pyongyang, North Korea, and refugees from other areas of North Korea crawl perilously over shattered girders of the city's bridge, as they flee towards south across the Taedong River to escape the advance of Chinese Communist troops, during the Korean War - 1950

Scene in a street market at Seoul, South Korea - 1960

A young Korean girl piggy-backs her young brother, while a soldier from the Royal New Zealand Army is seen on the background camouflaging his "B" platoon truck, during the Korean War - 1953

Russian prisoners of war during the Russo-Japanese War, at the Dōgo Onsen hot spring building in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan - 1904/1905

Soviet rock singer of Korean descent, and leader and songwriter of the rock band Kino, Viktor Tsoi - 1980s

Korean girls in Seoul, Korea, playing with a flying see-saw - 1900s

Protestors rush towards the police firing tear gas in Busan, South Korea, during demonstrations as part of the nationwide democracy movement against the military regime of South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan - 1987

Former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin with a Saudi civilian, during his exile in Saudi Arabia - 1992

Soviet soldiers at a New Year costume party. The sign reads: "Samurai will remember it for a long time." In July-Aug. 1938, Soviet and Japanese forces clashed in the Battle of Lake Khasan at the juncture of Soviet, Korean and Manchurian borders - 1938

American singer Elvis Presley signing autographs for fans in West Germany - 1959

Japanese crown prince and future emperor Naruhito talks with his friends at Oxford University's Merton College in London, where he spent two of his years - 1983

White segregationists try to stop Black protesters from entering water at segregated beach in St. Augustine, Florida - 1964

A South Korean soldier beats up a protestor during the government led suppression of the pro-democracy movement in the South Korean city of Gwangju - 1980

Member of Korean Patriotic Corps (a Korean resistance organisation against the Japanese rule of Korea) Yun Bong-gil - 1932

Massive protests held in Seoul, South Korea against Soviet Union, in the aftermath of the shootdown of Korean Airlines flight 007 by Soviets on September 1st - 1983

Israeli soldier praying in the Sinai Peninsula during the Yom Kippur War - 1973

International Workers' Day parade in Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR, on May 1. The parade took place five days after the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant disaster on 26 April. The Communist Party of Soviet Union ordered the parade to proceed despite the danger of the spread of nuclear radiation - 1986

Crown Prince Hirohito and Princess Nagako - 1924

Korean high school students led by a Japanese military officer, after a forced visit to a Shinto shrine in Gwangju, Japanese Korea (present-day South Korea) - 1930s

King Farouk of Egypt poses alongside an impressive bag following a day's shooting in Cairo - 1946

Children standing in line for food in Seoul, South Korea - 1955

6-year-old Masako Owada (future Empress of Japan) at her home in New York - 1977

Korean schoolchildren going for a school picnic on a spring day, in Pyongan Province, Japanese Korea (present-day North Korea) - 1937

U.S. President Lyndon Johnson and his family watching the news on tens of thousands of anti-war protestors rioting in Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, from the bedroom at their ranch in Stonewall, Texas - 1968

Pope John Paul II waves as he arrives for Sunday Mass at Youido Plaza in Seoul, South Korea . More than 700,000 people attended the service to mark the end of the 44th Eucharistic Conference. - 1989

Marshals of Soviet Union during World War II - 1940s

A refugee camp in Seoul, South Korea, during the Korean War - 1951

Japanese crown prince Akihito and crown princess Michiko visit the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco - 1960

A Korean family from Japan ('Zainichi Koreans') at a grave of their relative, in a cemetery in South Korea - 1976

Benito Mussolini at Monte Terminillo, Italy - 1937

Koreans demonstrating against the Japanese rule of Korean Peninsula, during the March 1st Movement, one of the earliest public displays of Korean resistance during the rule of Korea by Japan - 1919

A weary, exhausted Marine huddled against the bitter cold during the retreat from Chosin Reservoir, Korea - 1950

Mugshot of Korean independence activist organizer Ryu Gwansun, following her arrest by Japanese colonial authorithes in Korea in the aftermath of March 1st Movement against Japanese colonial rule of Korea - 1919

Samding Dorje Phagmo (center) the female reincarnated lama, is ‘struggled’ against in the courtyard of her home in Lhasa, Tibet, together with her mother and father by Chinese Red Guards, during the Cultural Revolution - 1960s

Bảo Đại, the last emperor of Nguyen dynasty (the last ruling dynasty of Vietnam), with his French wife Monique Vinh Thuy, during his exile in France - 1990s

U.S. Air Force Captain Joseph C. McConnell in the cockpit of his F-86 Sabre 'Beauteous Butch II' after his final combat mission, during the Korean War. McConnell is the highest scoring American jet ace, with 16 air-to-air kills against Soviet MiG-15s during the war - 1953