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Fukushima nuke plant worker checked before taking break

TOKYO, Japan - A worker (R) at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant receives a check for detection of radioactive materials before taking a break inside a rest vehicle in this file photo taken on Aug. 13, 2014.

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Ferry service to end between north Japan and Sakhalin

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - Heart Land Ferry Co.'s ferryboat linking Wakkanai in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido and Sakhalin in the Russian Far East is anchored at Wakkanai port on Aug. 13, 2014. The company announced the end of service between the two cities at the end of September due to a continuing deficit.

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Man speaks about Rausu 'kombu' sea tangle

KUSHIRO, Japan - Kazuaki Ida of the Rausu Fisheries Cooperative Association explains the attractiveness of local "kombu" sea tangle in Rausu Town on the Shiretoko Peninsula in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido on Aug. 13, 2014. Tours to learn about "kombu," a specialty of Rausu, started in August before the 10th anniversary next year of Shiretoko's addition to the UNESCO list of World Heritage sites.

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Flooding, landslides hit Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A residential area of Hiroshima city, western Japan, is buried in mud following landslides triggered by torrential rain on Aug. 20, 2014. Eighteen people have been confirmed dead and 13 remained unaccounted for.

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Flooding, landslides hit Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 20, 2014, shows a residential area of Hiroshima city, western Japan, buried in mud following landslides triggered by torrential rain. Eighteen people have been confirmed dead and 13 remained unaccounted for.

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Flooding, landslides hit Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 20, 2014, shows rescue workers at the site of a landslide in a residential area of Hiroshima city, western Japan, following torrential rain. Eighteen people have been confirmed dead and 13 remained unaccounted for.

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Flooding, landslides hit Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 20, 2014, shows rescue workers at the site of a landslide in a residential area of Hiroshima city, western Japan, following torrential rain. Eighteen people have been confirmed dead and 13 remained unaccounted for.

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Flooding, landslides hit Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 20, 2014, shows a residential area of Hiroshima city, western Japan, hit by flooding and landslides following torrential rain. Eight people have been confirmed dead and 13 remained unaccounted for.

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Flooding, landslides hit Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 20, 2014, shows a residential area of Hiroshima city, western Japan, buried in mud and tree branches following landslides triggered by torrential rain. Eighteen people have been confirmed dead and 13 remained unaccounted for.

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Flooding, landslides hit Hiroshima

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe returns to his office in Tokyo to deal with massive landslides in Hiroshima on Aug. 20, 2014, cutting short a game of golf in Yamanashi Prefecture where he was taking his summer vacation. In the landslides, 18 people have been confirmed dead and 13 remained unaccounted for.

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Flooding, landslides hit Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 20, 2014, shows a residential area of Hiroshima city, western Japan, hit by flooding and landslides following torrential rain. Eight people have been confirmed dead and 13 remained unaccounted for.

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Flooding, landslides hit Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 20, 2014, shows a residential area of Hiroshima city, western Japan, hit by flooding and landslides following torrential rain. Eight people have been confirmed dead and 13 remained unaccounted for.

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Flooding, landslides hit Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 20, 2014, shows rescue workers at the site of a landslide in a residential area of Hiroshima city, western Japan, following torrential rain. Eight people have been confirmed dead and 13 remained unaccounted for.

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Flooding, landslides hit Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 20, 2014, shows a residential area of Hiroshima city, western Japan, hit by flooding and landslides following torrential rain. Eight people have been confirmed dead and 13 remained unaccounted for.

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Flooding, landslides hit Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 20, 2014, shows rescue workers lifting a resident by helicopter from the site of a landslide in a residential area of Hiroshima city, western Japan, following torrential rain. Eighteen people have been confirmed dead and 13 remained unaccounted for.

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Flooding, landslides hit Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 20, 2014, shows residents and rescue workers on a rooftop at the site of a landslide in a residential area of Hiroshima city, western Japan, following torrential rain. Eight people have been confirmed dead and 13 remained unaccounted for.

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Flooding, landslides hit Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A residential area of Hiroshima city, western Japan, is buried in mud following torrential rain on Aug. 20, 2014. Eight people have been confirmed dead and 13 remained unaccounted for in landslides that hit the area.

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Flooding, landslides hit Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 20, 2014, shows a helicopter with rescue workers heading for the site of a landslide in a residential area of Hiroshima city, western Japan, following torrential rain. Eighteen people have been confirmed dead and 13 remained unaccounted for.

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Flooding, landslides hit Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 20, 2014, shows residents and rescue workers on a rooftop at the site of a landslide in a residential area of Hiroshima city, western Japan, following torrential rain. Eight people have been confirmed dead and 13 remained unaccounted for.

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Flooding, landslides hit Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 20, 2014, shows a residential area of Hiroshima city, western Japan, hit by flooding and landslides following torrential rain. Eight people have been confirmed dead and 13 remained unaccounted for.

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Flooding, landslides hit Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 20, 2014, shows rescue workers at the site of a landslide in a residential area of Hiroshima city, western Japan, following torrential rain. Eight people have been confirmed dead and 13 remained unaccounted for.

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Flooding, landslides hit Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 20, 2014, shows a residential area of Hiroshima city, western Japan, hit by flooding and landslides following torrential rain. Eight people have been confirmed dead and 13 remained unaccounted for.

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Flooding, landslides hit Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 20, 2014, shows a residential area of Hiroshima city, western Japan, hit by flooding and landslides following torrential rain. Eight people have been confirmed dead and 13 remained unaccounted for.

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Flooding, landslides hit Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 20, 2014, shows a residential area of Hiroshima city, western Japan, hit by flooding and landslides following torrential rain. Eight people have been confirmed dead and 13 remained unaccounted for.

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Flooding, landslides hit Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A railroad in a residential area of Hiroshima city, western Japan, is buried in mud following torrential rain on Aug. 20, 2014. Eight people have been confirmed dead and 13 remained unaccounted for in landslides that hit the area.

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Flooding, landslides hit Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A residential area of Hiroshima city, western Japan, is flooded following torrential rain on Aug. 20, 2014. Eight people have been confirmed dead and 13 remained unaccounted for in landslides that also hit the area.

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Flooding, landslides hit Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A resident is carried on the back of a rescue worker in a residential area of Hiroshima city, western Japan, hit by flooding and landslides following torrential rain on Aug. 20, 2014. Eight people have been confirmed dead and 13 remained unaccounted for in landslides that hit the area.

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Flooding, landslides hit Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A residential area of Hiroshima city, western Japan, is buried in mud following torrential rain on Aug. 20, 2014. Eight people have been confirmed dead and 13 remained unaccounted for in landslides that hit the area.

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Flooding, landslides hit Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Rescue workers head for a site of a landslide in a residential area of Hiroshima city, western Japan, following torrential rain on Aug. 20, 2014. Eight people have been confirmed dead and 13 remained unaccounted for in landslides that hit the area.

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KFC chain stresses use of Japan-raised chickens only

TOKYO, Japan - A statute of Colonel Sanders holds a poster in Tokyo on Aug. 13, 2014, saying the Kentucky Fried Chicken chain uses only chickens raised in Japan amid a food safety scandal in China.

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Junior high schoolers from disaster-hit areas hold summit

KOBE, Japan - Two students (far R) of Yotsukura junior high school from Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, talks about the degree of recovery from the 2011 earthquake that hit northeastern Japan during a "summit of junior high school students in disaster-stricken areas" in Kobe, western Japan, on Aug. 19, 2014. The gathering was joined by 13 schools from six prefectures, including Nagasaki where pyroclastic flows from Mt. Unzen killed scores of people in 1991.

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Research to start on blood tests to detect 13 cancer types

TOKYO, Japan - Researchers announce the commencement of a project to develop ways of detecting 13 types of cancer from a single blood sample at a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 18, 2014. Making the announcement were Kenji Kurata (L), president of the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, Tomomitsu Hotta (C), president of the National Cancer Center, and Tetsu Yonehara, head of Toray Industries Inc.'s New Frontiers Research Laboratories.

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Microchip for detecting 13 cancer types from blood sample

TOKYO, Japan - A microchip is shown in Tokyo on Aug. 18, 2014, as part of a project to examine micro ribonucleic acid (miRNA) in a single blood sample for the detection of 13 types of cancer.

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Darvish life-size poster

ARLINGTON, United States - The Texas Rangers give away life-size posters of pitcher Yu Darvish, who is 196-centimeter tall, to the first 10,000 children aged 13 and younger, at a game against the Los Angeles Angels in Arlington, Texas, on Aug. 17, 2014.

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Kids enjoy shaved natural ice in Nikko, Japan

UTSUNOMIYA, Japan - Children and their mother enjoy eating bowls of shaved ice made from natural ice in Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Aug. 13, 2014. Shaved natural ice is now regarded as a local summer specialty.

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Kurdish "peshmerga" forces rely on old weapons

ERBIL, Iraq - Photo shows members of Kurdish "peshmerga" forces in Makhmour, northern Iraq, on Aug. 13, 2014. A Soviet-made machinegun is seen mounted on the rear deck of a truck (back).

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Northern Iraqi residents hurriedly leave war-torn city

MAKHMOUR, Iraq - Residents in Makhmour, northern Iraq, go through a check point by car with household effects on Aug. 13, 2014, to escape from the recent escalation of a military conflict between Islamic militants and the Peshmerga forces of Kurdistan.

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Debris-littered street hit by U.S. airstrikes in Iraq

ERBIL, Iraq - Young people watch a battle-torn street of Makhmour, northern Iraq, on Aug. 13, 2014, following U.S. airstrikes against Islamic militants and the ensuing recapture of the town by the Peshmerga forces of Kurdistan.

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Battered restaurant in northern Iraq

MAKHMOUR, Iraq - The damaged inside of an upmarket restaurant in Makhmour, northern Iraq, is shown on Aug. 13, 2014, after the latest military exchanges between Islamic militants and the Peshmerga forces of Kurdistan aided by U.S. airstrikes.

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Japanese play Chopin ballade in Washington, D.C.

WASHINGTON, United States - Japanese pianist Ikuyo Nagata (R) and compatriot violinist Reiko Watanabe play a duet of Belgian musician Eugene Ysaye's transcription of the Chopin ballade No. 1 at the Japanese ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C. on Aug. 13, 2014. It was the first time the legendary Belgian violinist's 100-year-old arrangement for the violin and piano has been played. Nagata "deciphered" Ysaye's musical notes over about three years.

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Sports cycling body wants permanent track in Tokyo Olympics

TOKYO, Japan - Brian Cookson, president of the Union Cycliste Internationale, calls on the organizing committee of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games to build a permanent cycling track rather than a temporary course in an interview in Tokyo on Aug. 13, 2014.

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S. Koreans demand justice from Japan for WWII sex slavery

SEOUL, South Korea - South Koreans, including women forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese military during World War II, gather in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Aug. 13, 2014, to demand an apology and compensation from Japan.

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Ota lobbies for Malaysia-Singapore high-speed rail project

PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia - Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai speaks to Kyodo News after talks with Japanese transport minister Akihiro Ota in Putrajaya, Malaysia, on Aug. 13, 2014. Ota lobbied for Japan's participation in a high-speed rail project linking Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.

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N. Korea has new proposal for N.E. Asia: Natalegawa

JAKARTA, Indonesia - New North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Su Yong (L) talks with Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa in Jakarta on Aug. 13, 2014.

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Ota lobbies for Malaysia-Singapore high-speed rail project

PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia - Visiting Japanese transport minister Akihiro Ota (L) and Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai shake hands prior to talks in Putrajaya, Malaysia, on Aug. 13, 2014. Ota lobbied for Japan's participation in a high-speed rail project linking Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.

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Stork flies to rice paddy in Yonago on Japan Sea coast

YONAGO, Japan - An Oriental white stork feeds in a rice paddy in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, on the Japan Sea coast on Aug. 13, 2014. Identification tags attached to both legs suggest that the bird flew from the Hyogo Park of the Oriental White Stork in Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture, where it left its nest in June.

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Mother of Romania woman abducted to N. Korea dies

TOKYO, Japan - Petra Bumbea, whose daughter Doina is believed to have been abducted to North Korea in the late 1970s, died of cancer at her home in Craiova, western Romania, on Aug. 4, 2014, her son Gabriel said on Aug. 13. This undated file photo shows Petra (L) and Gabriel, with his wife holding a picture of Doina, at their home.

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All-night 'Gujo Odori' dance festival starts

GUJO, Japan - An all-night "Gujo Odori" dance festival starts on Aug. 13, 2014 in Gujo, Gifu Prefecture, central Japan. The four-day festival is designated as an important intangible folk cultural asset in the country.

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Torch relay for Asian Games starts in S. Korea's Incheon

INCHEON, South Korea - A woman holds up the 2014 Asian Games torch in Incheon, South Korea, on Aug. 13, 2014, as the torch relay started in the city. The torch will be relayed across the country before the Asian Games scheduled to begin in the city on Sept. 19.

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U.S. wanted impact appraisal for inland area in base transfer

TOKYO, Japan - An internal U.S. military document of April 2006, a copy of which was obtained by Kyodo News, shows that the United States wanted Japan to conduct an environmental impact assessment on an inland area in Okinawa Prefecture in connection with an agreement to relocate the U.S. Air Corps' Futenma air station in Ginowan to the Henoko district in Nago, as seen in this photo taken on Aug. 13, 2014.