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Welfare ministry official acquitted in postal abuse case

OSAKA, Japan, Aug. 24 Kyodo - Atsuko Muraki (L), former director general of the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry's Equal Employment, Children and Families Bureau, holds a press conference in Osaka on Sept. 10, 2010, with her lawyer Junichiro Hironaka after the Osaka District Court acquitted her of instructing a subordinate to fabricate and issue an official document for an organization in an attempt to abuse a mail discount system for people with disabilities.(Kyodo)

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World's oldest beer restored in Finnish territory

LONDON, Britain - A brewery in a suburb of Mariehamn in Finland's Aland Islands autonomous region serves beer created from what is considered to be the oldest beer in the world, as seen in this file photo taken on Nov. 10, 2014. The re-creation follows the salvage in July 2010 of five bottles of beer from a ship believed to have sunken in the 1840s off Aland in the Baltic Sea.

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China rights advocate's husband assaulted before APEC summit

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in Beijing in May 2010 shows renowned Chinese civil rights defender Ni Yulan (R) and her husband, Dong Jiqin. Dong, 62, sustained head and chest injuries after he was assaulted in the early morning on Nov. 10, 2014, allegedly by policemen at their home in the capital hours before China hosted a meeting of Asia-Pacific leaders, the couple have said.

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China's consumer inflation slows to level not seen since 2010

BEIJING, China - A vendor awaits shoppers in a market in Beijing on Oct. 10, 2014. China's consumer price index, a major gauge of inflation, rose 1.6 percent in September from a year earlier, compared with the previous month's increase of 2 percent, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Oct. 15. The latest rise in the inflation index is the lowest since January 2010.

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China's consumer inflation slows to level not seen since 2010

BEIJING, China - A vendor awaits shoppers in a market in Beijing on Oct. 10, 2014. China's consumer price index, a major gauge of inflation, rose 1.6 percent in September from a year earlier, compared with the previous month's increase of 2 percent, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Oct. 15. The latest rise in the inflation index is the lowest since January 2010.

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Nagashima in men's 500m speed skate sprint

SOCHI, Russia - The 2010 silver medalist Keiichiro Nagashima of Japan competes in the first round of the men's 500-meter speed skating event at the Winter Olympics at the Adler Arena Skating Center in Sochi, Russia, on Feb. 10, 2014.

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Japan's Nagashima in men's 500m speed skating

SOCHI, Russia - The 2010 silver medalist Keiichiro Nagashima of Japan competes in the second round of the men's 500-meter speed skating event at the Winter Olympics at the Adler Arena Skating Center in Sochi, Russia, on Feb. 10, 2014.

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Japan's Nagashima in men's 500m speed skating

SOCHI, Russia - Keiichiro Nagashima of Japan gestures to his supporters after competing in the second round of the men's 500-meter speed skating event at the Winter Olympics at the Adler Arena Skating Center in Sochi, Russia, on Feb. 10, 2014. The 2010 silver medalist finished in sixth place.

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Mourning Nelson Mandela

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - South Africans sing and dance at a soccer stadium in Johannesburg on Dec. 10, 2013, to mourn the death Dec. 5 of former President Nelson Mandela. The funeral service for Mandela will be held later that day at the stadium, which was the venue of the 2010 soccer World Cup's closing ceremony, where Mandela made his last public appearance.

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China to skip Tokyo IMF meetings

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Chinese Finance Minister Xie Xuren (L) and People's Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan holding a press conference during the National People's Congress in Beijing in March 2010. China said on Oct. 10, 2012, it will not send its finance chiefs to annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Tokyo amid a bilateral territorial row.

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Acquitted Muraki returns to welfare ministry

TOKYO, Japan - Atsuko Muraki, senior official at the Cabinet Office, answers reporters' questions after being appointed head of the Social Welfare and War Victims' Relief Bureau of the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry, at the ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 10, 2012. Muraki was acquitted in 2010 in a fraud case involving abuse of a postal discount system while working at the welfare ministry.

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Chinese court imprisons activist couple

BEIJING, China - Photo shows human rights activist and former lawyer Ni Yulan living homeless at a park in Beijing in May 2010. Hong Kong media reported that a Chinese court on April 10, 2012, sentenced Ni and her husband Dong Jiqin to prison on charges of causing a nuisance and committing fraud. Ni used to help Falun Gong practitioners and homeowners whose houses were demolished.

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Chinese court imprisons activist couple

BEIJING, China - Photo shows human rights activist and former lawyer Ni Yulan (R) and her husband Dong Jiqin living homeless at a park in Beijing in May 2010. Hong Kong media reported that a Chinese court on April 10, 2012, sentenced the couple to prison on charges of causing a nuisance and committing fraud. Ni used to help Falun Gong practitioners and homeowners whose houses were demolished.

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N. Korea power succession

BEIJING, China - File photo shows Kim Jong Un (R) clapping during a military parade in Pyongyang on Oct. 10, 2010, as his father and then North Korean leader Kim Jong Il (L) leaves the reviewing platform. The parade was to mark the 65th anniversary of the founding of the ruling Workers Party of Korea.

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Suu Kyi receives UNESCO award

YANGON, Myanmar - Ryuhei Hosoya (L), executive director of the Office of the UNESCO Director General, hands a trophy to Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi in Yangon on Feb. 10, 2012. Suu Kyi was chosen as the 2002 winner of the UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance and Non-Violence, but had been unable to receive the award as she had been under house arrest on and off from 1989 to 2010.

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N. Korea's Kim Jong Il

BEIJING, China - North Korean leader Kim Jong Il waves while reviewing a military parade marking the 65th anniversary of the founding of the ruling Workers Party of Korea in Pyongyang on Oct. 10, 2010. North Korea announced Dec. 19, 2011, through its official Korean Central News Agency that Kim Jong Il had died two days earlier at the age of 69.

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N. Korea's Kim Jong Il

BEIJING, China - North Korean leader Kim Jong Il (R) walks off after reviewing a military parade marking the 65th anniversary of the founding of the ruling Workers Party of Korea in Pyongyang on Oct. 10, 2010. To the left is the leader's third son Kim Jong Un. North Korea announced Dec. 19, 2011, through its official Korean Central News Agency that Kim Jong Il had died two days earlier at the age of 69.

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N. Korea's Kim Jong Il

TOKYO, Japan - North Korean leader Kim Jong Il (L) walks off after reviewing a military parade marking the 65th anniversary of the founding of the ruling Workers Party of Korea in Pyongyang on Oct. 10, 2010. To the right is Kim's third son Kim Jong Un. North Korea announced Dec. 19, 2011, through its official Korean Central News Agency that Kim Jong Il had died two days earlier at the age of 69.

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N. Korea's Kim Jong Il

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Oct. 10, 2010, shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Il (L) and Kim Jong Un (R), a son of Jong Il, reviewing a military parade marking the 65th anniversary of the founding of the ruling Workers Party of Korea in Pyongyang. North Korea announced Dec. 19, 2011, through its official Korean Central News Agency that Kim Jong Il died on Dec. 17, 2011, at the age of 69.

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Anniversary of N. Korean defector Hwang's death

SEOUL, South Korea - People including defectors from North Korea release large balloons carrying about 200,000 leaflets criticizing the North's government into the sky during an event at Imjingak, Paju, South Korea, near the border with the North, on Oct. 10, 2011, to commemorate the first anniversary of Hwang Jang Yop's death. Hwang, the highest-ranking North Korean ever to defect to South Korea, was found dead in Seoul on Oct. 10, 2010, after defecting from the North in 1997.

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Anniversary of N. Korean defector Hwang's death

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korean defectors raise an image of Hwang Jang Yop, the highest-ranking North Korean ever to defect to South Korea, during an event at Imjingak, Paju, South Korea, near the border with the North, on Oct. 10, 2011, to commemorate the first anniversary of Hwang's death. Hwang was found dead in Seoul on Oct. 10, 2010, after defecting to the South in 1997.

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Kabuki actor Nakamura Shikan dies at 83

TOKYO, Japan - In this file photo taken in October 2010, Kabuki actor Nakamura Shikan makes a speech after the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Kabukiza theater in Tokyo. He died Oct. 10, 2011, of lung failure at the age of 83.

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AirAsia X to offer Osaka-Kuala Lumpur flight

OSAKA, Japan - Azran Osman-Rani (C), chief executive officer of Malaysian budget carrier AirAsia X, attends an event in Osaka, western Japan, on Aug. 10, 2011, to promote a flight between Osaka and Kuala Lumpur to be launched on Nov. 30. In the promotional period through June 20, the lowest fare available on the new route from Kansai International Airport is set at 3,931 yen one way. The total ticket cost, including airport taxes, rises to 8,081 yen. The flight will be the airline's second service linking Malaysia and Japan after the inauguration in 2010 of flights between Kuala Lumpur and Tokyo.

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Recovery of fallen device at Monju reactor planned

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken May 2010 shows the Monju prototype fast-breeder reactor in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture. The Japan Atomic Energy Agency said May 10, 2011, that it will undertake work in June 2011 to recover a fallen 3.3-ton device at the reactor. The device used for fuel exchange accidentally fell into the reactor vessel in August 2010.

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Analysis of space particles brought back by Hayabusa

TOKYO, Japan - Akio Fujimura (L), professor at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, speaks in a press conference in Tokyo on March 10, 2011, on the analysis of particles brought back to Earth by Japan's Hayabusa unmanned space probe from the asteroid Itokawa in June 2010. The material constituting the asteroid may have been formed in high temperatures at the time the solar system was created 4.6 billion years ago, according to JAXA.

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Okinawa governor protests Maher's remarks

NAHA, Japan - Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima (R) hands a letter of protest to Raymond Greene, the U.S. consul general in Okinawa, on March 10, 2010, at the prefectural government office in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture. Nakaima protested comments by senior U.S. diplomat Kevin Maher that reportedly insulted the people of Okinawa, and urged the United States to investigate if Maher actually made the remarks. Maher was dismissed from the post.

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Project delivers voices of A-bomb survivors to N.Y. high schoolers

NEW YORK, United States - Reiko Yamada (far left) talks about her experience of surviving the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima to students at Brooklyn International High School on Dec. 10, 2010.

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Project delivers voices of A-bomb survivors to N.Y. high schoolers

NEW YORK, United States - Setsuko Thurlow (far right) talks about her experience of surviving the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima to students at Brooklyn International High School on Dec. 10, 2010.

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N. Korean IRBMs at 2010 military parade

BEIJING, China - Photo shows what appear to be North Korea's ''Musudan'' intermediate-range ballistic missiles at a military parade in Pyongyang on Oct. 10, 2010, the 65th anniversary of the founding of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates told journalists in Beijing on Jan. 11, 2011, that the North could pose a direct threat to the United States within five years if it continues to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles and expand its nuclear weapons capability.

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Kim Jong Un turns 28

BEIJING, China - Photo taken on Oct. 10, 2010, shows Kim Jong Un, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's third son and heir. He turned 28 on Jan. 8, 2011, though the North's media did not report any celebratory events.

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Kim Jong Un

BEIJING, China - This file photo shows leader-in-waiting Kim Jong Un, the third son of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, viewing a military parade to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the ruling Workers Party of Korea in Pyongyang on Oct. 10, 2010.

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Kim Jong Un

BEIJING, China - This file photo shows leader-in-waiting Kim Jong Un, the third son of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, viewing an event to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the ruling Workers Party of Korea in Pyongyang on Oct. 10, 2010.

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COP16 in Mexico

CANCUN, Mexico - People attend a U.N. climate change conference in Cancun, a major resort in Mexico, on Dec. 10, 2010. Delegates agreed to create a fund to help developing countries tackle global warming.

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2 Japanese chemists honored at Nobel ceremony

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Japanese chemist Akira Suzuki (2nd from R) receives a medal and diploma in chemistry from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden (R) during the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall on Dec. 10, 2010. (Pool Photo by Kyodo News)

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2 Japanese chemists honored at Nobel ceremony

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Japanese chemist Eiichi Negishi (2nd from R) receives a medal and diploma in chemistry from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden (R) during the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall on Dec. 10, 2010. (Pool Photo by Kyodo News)

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2 Japanese chemists honored at Nobel ceremony

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Japanese chemists Eiichi Negishi (L) and Akira Suzuki show their Nobel diplomas in chemistry at the Stockholm Concert Hall on Dec. 10, 2010, after the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony. (Pool Photo by Kyodo News)

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Pro-Liu Xiaobo rally in Washington

WASHINGTON, United States - U.S. congressman Dennis Kucinich, an Ohio Democrat, delivers a speech at a gathering in support of imprisoned Chinese Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo in Washington on Dec. 10, 2010. Participants called for Liu's release and an end of communist one-party rule in China.

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Pro-Liu Xiaobo rally

OSLO, Norway - People stage a rally urging China to release imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo in Oslo on Dec. 10, 2010. The Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony was held the same day in Liu's absence.

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Oda at GP Final in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Nobunari Oda of Japan responds to the crowd after the men's short program of the Grand Prix Final figure skating competition at Beijing's Capital Gymnasium on Dec. 10, 2010.

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Nobel laureate chemist Negishi in Stockholm

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Japanese chemist Eiichi Negishi (R), a winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry and the Herbert C. Brown Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Purdue University, smiles with his wife Sumire at a hotel in Stockholm on Dec. 10, 2010, before the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony in the Swedish capital. (Pool Photo)

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Celebration for Liu's Nobel Peace Prize in Hong Kong

HONG KONG, China - People in Hong Kong celebrate imprisoned Chinese activist Liu Xiaobo winning the Nobel Peace Prize on Dec. 10, 2010. The Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony was held in Oslo the same day in Liu's absence.

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Nobel Foundation banquet

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Japanese chemist Eiichi Negishi delivers a speech at a banquet hosted by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm on Dec. 10, 2010, after receiving a medal and diploma in chemistry at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Pro-Liu Xiaobo rally

OSLO, Norway - People stage a rally urging China to release imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo in Oslo on Dec. 10, 2010. The Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony was held the same day in Liu's absence.

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2 Japanese chemists honored at Nobel ceremony

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Japanese chemists Eiichi Negishi (L) and Akira Suzuki show their Nobel medals in chemistry at the Stockholm Concert Hall on Dec. 10, 2010, after the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony. (Pool Photo by Kyodo News)

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Murakami at GP Final in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Japanese hopeful Kanako Murakami skates in the women's short program of the Grand Prix Final figure skating competition at Beijing's Capital Gymnasium on Dec. 10, 2010.

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Takahashi at GP Final in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Japan's Daisuke Takahashi poses after the men's short program of the Grand Prix Final figure skating competition at Beijing's Capital Gymnasium on Dec. 10, 2010.

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2 Japanese local assembly members visit 1 of Senkaku Islands

ISHIGAKI, Japan - Hitoshi Nakama (C) and Yoichi Minosoko (L), two members of the municipal assembly of Ishigaki, Okinawa Prefecture, speak to reporters at Ishigaki Island on Dec. 10, 2010, after landing on Minami Kojima, one of the Senkaku Islands, controlled by Japan but also claimed by China. The trip prompted an investigation by police authorities as both men might have violated a law by entering an off-limits area.

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2 Japanese local assembly members visit 1 of Senkaku Islands

ISHIGAKI, Japan - Hitoshi Nakama (R) and Yoichi Minosoko, two members of the municipal assembly of Ishigaki, Okinawa Prefecture, return to Ishigaki Island port on Dec. 10, 2010, after landing on Minami Kojima, one of the Senkaku Islands, controlled by Japan but also claimed by China. The trip prompted an investigation by police authorities as both men might have violated a law by entering an off-limits area.

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Thaksin supporters commemorate clampdown victims

BANGKOK, Thailand - Supporters of ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra light up candles on Dec. 10, 2010, to commemorate victims in clashes with security troops during a series of antigovernment protests in Bangkok.

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Thaksin supporters commemorate clampdown victims

BANGKOK, Thailand - Supporters of ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra light up candles on Dec. 10, 2010, to commemorate victims in clashes with security troops during a series of antigovernment protests in Bangkok.