TOKYO, March 28 (UPI) -- Two United Press International photographers who won Pulitzer Prizes are being honored with a photo exhibition of their coverage of the Vietnam War by the Japan Newspaper Museum in Yokohama.
The exhibition, titled :"The Battlefield," opened this week and will be on display until May 19 with the photos of Kyochi Sawada and Toshio Sakai, who photographed the war in the 1960s. Sawada, 34, was shot to death in Cambodia while on assignment in 1970. Sakai died in Japan in 1999 at age 59.
Sawada won the Pulitzer Price in 1966 for his photograph of a frightened Vietnamese family swimming across a river while trying to escape the fighting. Sakai took the prize in 1968 for a picture of a forlorn American soldier asleep on a pile of canvas and equipment during a rainstorm.
At the opening ceremony on March 26, Col. Beverly Lee, a U.S. military public relations officer based in Japan, presented Sakai's widow, Hideko Sakai, with his U.S.-issued press pass and documents Sakai submitted for his accreditation in Vietnam.
Hideko Sakai said, "I hope we will have a world where no reporters have to cover stories on war and refugees."
