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"Mikoshi" shrine cruises bay in northeastern Japan

A ship carrying a "mikoshi" portable shrine from Shiwahiko shrine in Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan, cruises across Matsushima Bay, escorted by about 100 fishing boats decorated with traditional Japanese fishermen's flags, during Shiogama Minato Festival on July 15, 2024.

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"Mikoshi" shrines cruise bay in northeastern Japan

"Mikoshi" portable shrines from two shrines in Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan, are carried onto ships for cruise across Matsushima Bay, escorted by about 100 fishing boats decorated with traditional Japanese fishermen's flags, during Shiogama Minato Festival on July 15, 2024.

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"Mikoshi" shrine cruises bay in northeastern Japan

A ship carrying a "mikoshi" portable shrine from Shiogama shrine in Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan, cruises across Matsushima Bay, escorted by about 100 fishing boats decorated with traditional Japanese fishermen's flags, during the Shiogama Minato Festival on July 15, 2024.

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Maglev train tunnel work site shown to media

Photo taken on Jan. 15, 2024, shows a maglev train tunnel work site in Kawasaki near Tokyo, shown to the media ahead of full-fledged drilling beginning around September. Central Japan Railway Co.'s Linear Chuo Shinkansen bullet train service will link between Tokyo and Osaka for about one hour.

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Maglev train tunnel work site shown to media

Photo taken on Jan. 15, 2024, shows a maglev train tunnel work site in Kawasaki near Tokyo, shown to the media ahead of full-fledged drilling beginning around September. Central Japan Railway Co.'s Linear Chuo Shinkansen bullet train service will link between Tokyo and Osaka for about one hour.

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Maglev train tunnel work site shown to media

Photo taken on Jan. 15, 2024, shows a maglev train tunnel work site in Kawasaki near Tokyo, shown to the media ahead of full-fledged drilling beginning around September. Central Japan Railway Co.'s Linear Chuo Shinkansen bullet train service will link between Tokyo and Osaka for about one hour.

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Maglev train tunnel work site shown to media

Photo taken on Jan. 15, 2024, shows a maglev train tunnel work site in Kawasaki near Tokyo, shown to the media ahead of full-fledged drilling beginning around September. Central Japan Railway Co.'s Linear Chuo Shinkansen bullet train service will link between Tokyo and Osaka for about one hour.

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Rugby School Japan

Photo taken on Sept. 15, 2023, shows a study room at Rugby School Japan, a British boarding school that opened in Kashiwa near Tokyo in early September. The co-ed school, affiliated with Britain's fee-paying Rugby School, has accepted about 140 students with a focus on art and sports education.

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China Import and Export Fair

China Import and Export Fair kicks off in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, on April 15, 2023. About 35,000 companies exhibit their merchandise at the country's largest trade event, also known as Canton Fair, that runs through May 5.

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China Import and Export Fair

China Import and Export Fair kicks off in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, on April 15, 2023. About 35,000 companies exhibit their merchandise at the country's largest trade event, also known as Canton Fair, that runs through May 5.

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China Import and Export Fair

China Import and Export Fair kicks off in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, on April 15, 2023. About 35,000 companies exhibit their merchandise at the country's largest trade event, also known as Canton Fair, that runs through May 5.

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China Import and Export Fair

A flying vehicle is on display at China Import and Export Fair that kicked off in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, on April 15, 2023. About 35,000 companies exhibit their merchandise at the country's largest trade event, also known as Canton Fair, that runs through May 5.

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China Import and Export Fair

China Import and Export Fair kicks off in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, on April 15, 2023. About 35,000 companies exhibit their merchandise at the country's largest trade event, also known as Canton Fair, that runs through May 5.

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Osaka student cycles across N. America in 2 months

NEW YORK, United States - Takuya Shirasawa (L), a vocational school student in Osaka, western Japan, celebrates with his former teacher Yoshiharu Higa in New York on Sept. 15, 2014, after cycling from San Francisco to New York in about two months, emulating Higa's similar achievement.

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Universal Studios Japan to see record 870,000 visitors in July

OSAKA, Japan - File photo taken July 15, 2014, shows Universal Studios Japan's Harry Potter area in Osaka, which draws many visitors. The number of visitors to USJ is expected to total about 870,000 in July, the record for the month.

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Prototype electric plane makes trial ground run in Japan

OITA, Japan - A prototype small electric airplane goes through a trial run on the ground in Bungoono, Oita Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on May 15, 2014. The propeller-driven plane ran about 300 meters in 25 seconds, reaching a maximum speed of 80 km per hour.

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Protesters seek elimination of nuclear power in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese astronaut Toyohiro Akiyama (front R) and novelist Kenzaburo Oe (front 2nd from R) join a march calling for the elimination of nuclear power generation in Japan on March 15, 2014 in Tokyo. About 5,500 people gathered at Hibiya Park in Tokyo before the march.

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Imperial poetry reading

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito (L side, seated) and Empress Michiko (to emperor's right, standing) attend the annual New Year Poetry Reading Ceremony at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Jan. 15, 2014. Poems composed by the emperor, the empress and other members of the imperial family, as well as those chosen from about 21,000 entries from the public, were recited in traditional style at the reading. (Pool photo)

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Imperial poetry reading

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito (seated) and Empress Michiko (to emperor's right, standing) attend the annual New Year Poetry Reading Ceremony at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Jan. 15, 2014. Poems composed by the emperor, the empress and other members of the imperial family, as well as those chosen from about 21,000 entries from the public, were recited in traditional style at the reading. (Pool photo)

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Japan sets new greenhouse gas emissions reduction target

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara holds a press conference at the ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 15, 2013, on a new greenhouse gas emission reduction target. The Japanese government decided the same day to aim at a 3.8 percent reduction from fiscal 2005 in its greenhouse gas emissions target for fiscal 2020, assuming the country's nuclear power plants remain offline. The new target represents an increase of about 3 percent from the Kyoto Protocol base year of fiscal 1990.

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Census in Afghanistan

CHAGHCHARAN, Afghanistan - A surveyor (C front) interviews a local resident at the resident's home in Chaghcharan, Ghor Province, on Oct. 15, 2012, as Afghanistan conducts its first national census in about 30 years.

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Census in Afghanistan

CHAGHCHARAN, Afghanistan - Curious neighborhood children gather as a surveyor (C bottom) interviews a local resident (top R) at the resident's home in Chaghcharan, Ghor Province, on Oct. 15, 2012, as Afghanistan conducts its first national census in about 30 years.

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Census in Afghanistan

CHAGHCHARAN, Afghanistan - A surveyor (R) interviews a local resident at the resident's home in Chaghcharan, Ghor Province, on Oct. 15, 2012, as Afghanistan conducts its first national census in about 30 years.

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Census in Afghanistan

CHAGHCHARAN, Afghanistan - Curious neighborhood children gather as a surveyor (bottom) interviews a local resident at the resident's home in Chaghcharan, Ghor Province, on Oct. 15, 2012, as Afghanistan conducts its first national census in about 30 years.

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Mainali leaves Japan for Nepal

NARITA, Japan - Govinda Prasad Mainali (R bottom, in a black suit), a Nepalese man granted a retrial over a 1997 Tokyo murder case, climbs up the stairs into an airplane at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on June 15, 2012. After spending 15 years in prison, Mainali, 45, left Japan to return to his home country for the first time in about 18 years, accompanied by his wife Radha, 42, and their two daughters Mithila, 20, and Alisha, 18, as well as Japanese supporters.

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Mainali leaves Japan for Nepal

NARITA, Japan - Govinda Prasad Mainali, a Nepalese man granted a retrial over a 1997 Tokyo murder case, shakes hands with a supporter, with his wife Radha sitting next to him, aboard an airplane ahead of departure from Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on June 15, 2012. To the left is their daughter Mithila. After spending 15 years in prison, Mainali, 45, left Japan to return to his home country for the first time in about 18 years, accompanied by his wife Radha, 42, and their two daughters Mithila, 20, and Alisha, 18, as well as Japanese supporters.

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Mainali leaves Japan for Nepal

NARITA, Japan - Govinda Prasad Mainali (C), a Nepalese man granted a retrial over a 1997 Tokyo murder case, climbs up the stairs into an airplane at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on June 15, 2012. After spending 15 years in prison, Mainali, 45, left Japan to return to his home country for the first time in about 18 years, accompanied by his wife Radha, 42, and their two daughters Mithila, 20, and Alisha, 18, as well as Japanese supporters.

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Mainali leaves Japan for Nepal

NARITA, Japan - Radha Mainali (R), the wife of Govinda Prasad Mainali, a Nepalese man granted a retrial over a 1997 Tokyo murder case, and their daughters Mithila (L) and Alisha (C), meet the press at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on June 15, 2012. After spending 15 years in prison, Mainali, 45, left Japan to return to his home country for the first time in about 18 years, accompanied by Radha, 42, and their two daughters Mithila, 20, and Alisha, 18, as well as Japanese supporters.

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Mainali leaves Japan for Nepal

NARITA, Japan - Govinda Prasad Mainali (C), a Nepalese man granted a retrial over a 1997 Tokyo murder case, gets off a bus while surrounded by immigration officials, near an airplane at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on June 15, 2012. After spending 15 years in prison, Mainali, 45, left Japan to return to his home country for the first time in about 18 years, accompanied by his wife Radha, 42, and their two daughters Mithila, 20, and Alisha, 18, as well as Japanese supporters.

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Mainali leaves Japan for Nepal

NARITA, Japan - Govinda Prasad Mainali (C), a Nepalese man granted a retrial over a 1997 Tokyo murder case, gets off a bus while surrounded by immigration officials, near an airplane at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on June 15, 2012. After spending 15 years in prison, Mainali, 45, left Japan to return to his home country for the first time in about 18 years, accompanied by his wife Radha, 42, and their two daughters Mithila, 20, and Alisha, 18, as well as Japanese supporters.

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Mainali leaves Japan for Nepal

NARITA, Japan - Govinda Prasad Mainali, a Nepalese man granted a retrial over a 1997 Tokyo murder case, climbs up the stairs into an airplane at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on June 15, 2012. After spending 15 years in prison, Mainali, 45, left Japan to return to his home country for the first time in about 18 years, accompanied by his wife Radha, 42, and their two daughters Mithila, 20, and Alisha, 18, as well as Japanese supporters.

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Mainali leaves Japan for Nepal

NARITA, Japan - Govinda Prasad Mainali, a Nepalese man granted a retrial over a 1997 Tokyo murder case, climbs up the stairs into an airplane at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on June 15, 2012. After spending 15 years in prison, Mainali, 45, left Japan to return to his home country for the first time in about 18 years, accompanied by his wife Radha, 42, and their two daughters Mithila, 20, and Alisha, 18, as well as Japanese supporters.

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Mainali leaves Japan for Nepal

NARITA, Japan - Govinda Prasad Mainali, a Nepalese man granted a retrial over a 1997 Tokyo murder case, shakes hands with a supporter, with his wife Radha sitting next to him, aboard an airplane ahead of departure from Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on June 15, 2012. After spending 15 years in prison, Mainali, 45, left Japan to return to his home country for the first time in about 18 years, accompanied by his wife Radha, 42, and their two daughters Mithila, 20, and Alisha, 18, as well as Japanese supporters.

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Pencil sculptor in Kofu

KOFU, Japan - Toshiyuki Yamazaki, a pencil sculptor in Kofu, central Japan, is pictured Jan. 15, 2012, in the Yamanashi Prefecture city with one of his works, a pencil with its graphite tip sculptured into the word ''gokaku,'' meaning passing the exam or selection process. The pencil sells for 8,000 yen (about $104) as a gift for students taking entrance exams or going for job interviews.

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Flooding in Thailand

BANGKOK, Thailand - A family with a baby who fled from the massive flooding in Thailand continue taking refuge at Don Muang airport, northern Bangkok, on Nov. 15, 2011. More than 4,000 people had taken shelter at the airport but most of them moved to other locations in late October after the airport itself was flooded. About 450 people were staying at the airport as of mid-November.

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Astronaut Furukawa communicates with Tohoku children

OTSUCHI, Japan - An elementary school student (L) in the quake- and tsunami-hit town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, speaks with Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa aboard the International Space Station via radio on Oct. 15, 2011. Sixteen students from five elementary schools in the town participated in the event, chatting with the astronaut for about 10 minutes.

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Radioactive sludge

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken June 15, 2011, shows bags of sludge contaminated with radioactive substances stored at a sewage treatment facility in the city of Fukushima, in the vicinity of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. A dosimeter indicates a radiation level of over 15 microsieverts per hour around 5 meters from the contaminated sludge. The storage tank is expected to be completely filled in about 6 months but the process to permanently dispose of the sludge has not been set.

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Monkeys get hot springs treat

HAKODATE, Japan - Japanese monkeys warm themselves in a hot spring at Hakodate City Tropical Garden in the northernmost Japanese main island of Hokkaido on Dec. 15, 2010. About 100 monkeys at the park soaked in the pool. The facility will keep the hot spring for the monkeys through May 2011 for viewing by visitors.

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New Audi A8 luxury sedan

TOKYO, Japan - Audi Japan K.K. President Hiroshi Okita unveils a new model of the Audi A8 luxury sedan on Dec. 15, 2010, in Tokyo. The model has a fuel efficiency of 8.3 kilometers per liter, up about 26 percent from its previous model.

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Monkeys get hot springs treat

HAKODATE, Japan - Japanese monkeys warm themselves in a hot spring at Hakodate City Tropical Garden in the northernmost Japanese main island of Hokkaido on Dec. 15, 2010. About 100 monkeys at the park soaked in the pool. The facility will keep the hot spring for the monkeys through May 2011 for viewing by visitors.

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Aoi Matsuri dating back 1,400 years held in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - About 500 participants and around 40 horses and cows parade in the Aoi Matsuri (festival), which dates back 1,400 years, in Kyoto on May 15, 2010. The participants, dressed as nobles of the Heian Period (794-1185), walked around eight kilometers from Kyoto Imperial Palace to Shimogamo and Kamigamo shrines, watched by about 26,000 people on the parade route.

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Ice issues delay men's 500m speed skating

RICHMOND, Canada - Japan's Joji Kato (L) waits at the Richmond Olympic Oval in Richmond, Canada, on Feb. 15, 2010, for the resumption of the men's 500 meters in the Vancouver Olympics, which was delayed by about an hour and 15 minutes after the ice-resurfacing machine broke down.

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Ice issues delay men's 500m speed skating

RICHMOND, Canada - A Zamboni prepares the ice during a break in the men's 500 meters speed skating race at the Richmond Olympic Oval in Richmond, Canada, during the Vancouver Winter Olympics on Feb. 15, 2010. The event was delayed by about an hour and 15 minutes after the Zamboni, which treats and smoothes the ice between sessions, apparently broke down.

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Ice issues delay men's 500m speed skating

RICHMOND, Canada - Japan's Joji Kato waits at the Richmond Olympic Oval in Richmond, Canada, on Feb. 15, 2010, for the resumption of the men's 500 meters in the Vancouver Olympics, which was delayed by about an hour and 15 minutes after the ice-resurfacing machine broke down.

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Ice issues delay men's 500m speed skating

RICHMOND, Canada - A worker sets up a Zamboni during a break in the men's 500 meters speed skating race at the Richmond Olympic Oval in Richmond, Canada, during the Vancouver Winter Olympics on Feb. 15, 2010. The event was delayed by about an hour and 15 minutes after the Zamboni, which treats and smoothes the ice between sessions, apparently broke down.

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Oldest elephant in Japan dies

ODAWARA, Japan - In this file photo taken on Aug. 15, 2009, Umeko, Japan's oldest elephant, is watered at a park in Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture. Umeko, who was believed to be about 100 years old in human years, died at the presumed age of 62 on Sept. 17, 2009.

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International cruise ship services from Japan resumes

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the cruise ship Nippon Maru (front) leaving Yokohama port near Tokyo on Dec. 15, 2022, marking the resumption of cruise ship operations from Japan following a hiatus of about two years and nine months due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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International cruise ship services from Japan resumes

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the cruise ship Nippon Maru leaving Yokohama port near Tokyo on Dec. 15, 2022, marking the resumption of cruise ship operations from Japan following a hiatus of about two years and nine months due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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International cruise ship services from Japan resumes

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the cruise ship Nippon Maru prior to leaving Yokohama port near Tokyo on Dec. 15, 2022, marking the resumption of cruise ship operations from Japan following a hiatus of about two years and nine months due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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International cruise ship services from Japan resumes

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the cruise ship Nippon Maru leaving Yokohama port near Tokyo on Dec. 15, 2022, marking the resumption of cruise ship operations from Japan following a hiatus of about two years and nine months due to the COVID-19 pandemic.