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Offshore survey for U.S. base transfer in Okinawa continues

FUKUOKA, Japan - A drilling survey is under way off the Henoko area in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, southwestern Japan, as seen in this file photo taken on Aug. 18, 2014, for construction of a facility replacing the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma air base in Ginowan in the south. The Japanese Defense Ministry is considering extending the current end-of-November deadline to finish the survey.

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Survey extension eyed for U.S. base transfer in Okinawa

FUKUOKA, Japan - A drilling survey starts off the Henoko area in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, southwestern Japan, as seen in this file photo taken on Aug. 18, 2014, for construction of a facility replacing the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma air base in Ginowan in the south. The Japanese Defense Ministry is considering extending the current end-of-November deadline to finish the survey.

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Demand for Japan's dental technology growing in Russia

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - A Russian dentist treats a patient at his clinic in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on the Far Eastern island of Sakhalin as seen in this file photo taken on Aug. 18, 2014, amid growing local demand for Japan's advanced dental technology.

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Ex-swimmer to aid female athletes with medical knowledge

TOKYO, Japan - Yuko Sakurama, senior manager of the brand-new Japanese Center for Research on Women in Sport at Juntendo University, says in an interview on Aug. 18, 2014, that she will support Japanese female athletes for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games with her medical knowledge and experience as a former top swimmer.

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Sculptor of late yokozuna Taiho's statue erected in Russia

SAPPORO, Japan - Sculptor Toshio Kamada, shown in this file photo taken on Aug. 18, 2014, regards the 2.3-meter-tall statue of the late Japanese sumo legend Taiho he produced as a milestone in his career. He visited the grand champion's birthplace in Poronaysk in Russia's Far Eastern region of Sakhalin in August to attend an unveiling ceremony for the statue.

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Statue of ex-Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay

MANILA, Philippines - A statue of former Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay (1907-1957) stands in front of a wall bearing inscriptions of his ideals in Manila on Aug. 18, 2014. For 57 years, the Ramon Magsaysay award, touted as Asia's counterpart to the Nobel Prize, has commended individuals and organizations contributing to Asian society.

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Drilling survey undertaken off Henoko for U.S. base move

FUKUOKA, Japan - A drilling survey is undertaken with a jack-up rig off the Henoko district of Nago in Okinawa, Japan's southernmost prefecture, on Aug. 18, 2014. The survey is being carried out for the relocation of the U.S. Futenma air base in Ginowan, southern Okinawa.

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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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Pope Francis aboard plane

TOKYO, Japan - Pope Francis speaks to reporters aboard a plane on Aug. 18, 2014, during a return flight from South Korea to Rome.

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Missouri shooting

FERGUSON, United States - Demonstrators protest against the shooting death of Michael Brown, a black teenager, by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, in this photo taken on Aug. 18, 2014.

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Missouri shooting

FERGUSON, United States - Photo taken Aug. 18, 2014 shows the place where a black teenager, Michael Brown, was shot to death by a white police officer, in Ferguson, Missouri.

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Pope Francis aboard plane

TOKYO, Japan - Pope Francis speaks to reporters aboard a plane on Aug. 18, 2014, during a return flight from South Korea to Rome.

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Actor Watanabe visits Boston to meet Japanese players

BOSTON, United States - Japanese actor Ken Watanabe (L), taking time out from a movie schedule on the outskirts of Boston, visits the Boston Red Sox home ground Fenway Park to chat with the Major League Baseball club's closer Koji Uehara (R) and reliever Junichi Tazawa in the Massachusetts city on Aug. 18, 2014.

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Yousafzai at United Nations

NEW YORK, United States - Education and women's rights activist Malala Yousafzai (R) and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon (C) attend an event at U.N. headquarters in New York on Aug. 18, 2014, to mark 500 Days of Action for achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

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Japanese governor on casino study tour in Singapore

SENTOSA ISLAND, Singapore - Harumi Takahashi, governor of Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost prefecture, visits a hotel room with a view of an aquarium tank on Sentosa Island, Singapore, on Aug. 18, 2014. Takahashi toured the casino and hotels on the island to learn how such a resort complex is run, as Hokkaido is interested in hosting a casino once Japan's ban on them is lifted.

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Japanese governor on casino study tour in Singapore

SENTOSA ISLAND, Singapore - Harumi Takahashi (R), governor of Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost prefecture, is briefed on a casino at a resort facility on Sentosa Island, Singapore, on Aug. 18, 2014. Takahashi toured the casino and hotels on the island to learn how such a resort complex is run, as Hokkaido is interested in hosting a casino once Japan's ban on them is lifted.

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Yousafzai at United Nations

NEW YORK, United States - Education and women's rights activist Malala Yousafzai (R front) listens to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon at U.N. headquarters in New York on Aug. 18, 2014.

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Missouri shooting

FERGUSON, United States - Photo taken Aug. 18, 2014, shows a police vehicle (front) keeping an eye on demonstrators protesting against the shooting death of Michael Brown, a black teenager, by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.

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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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Japan lawmakers, China vice president agree to improve ties

BEIJING, China - A group of Japanese lawmakers, including Kiyohiko Toyama (R) of the New Komeito party and Democratic Party of Japan's Goshi Hosono, attend a press conference in Beijing, China, on Aug. 18, 2014, after meeting with Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao. Both sides agreed the two countries need to mend bilateral relations damaged over territorial and historical issues.

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Gov't starts drilling survey for U.S. base relocation

NAGO, Japan - People lodge a protest on Aug. 18, 2014, in front of the gate of the U.S. Marines' Camp Schwab in Nago, Okinawa, as the Japanese government started a drilling survey with a jack-up barge off the Henoko district of Nago to relocate the U.S. Futenma airbase there.

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Poster for Yamagata int'l film festival 2015 unveiled

YAMAGATA, Japan - Kiho Tsuruoka of Tohoku University of Art and Design holds a publicity poster she designed for the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2015 in Yamagata, northwestern Japan, on Aug. 18, 2014. The festival will be held on Oct. 8-15 next year.

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Gov't starts drilling survey for U.S. base relocation

NAGO, Japan - People lodge a protest on Aug. 18, 2014, in front of the gate of the U.S. Marines' Camp Schwab in Nago, Okinawa, as the Japanese government started a drilling survey with a jack-up barge off the Henoko district of Nago to relocate the U.S. Futenma airbase there.

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Gov't starts drilling survey for U.S. base relocation

NAGO, Japan - Photo taken Aug. 18, 2014, from Kyodo News helicopter shows the sea area where Japan's Defense Ministry started a drilling survey with a jack-up barge off the Henoko district of Nago in Okinawa Prefecture at the planned relocation site for the U.S. Futenma airbase. The ministry plans to conduct the drilling survey at 16 seabed sites off the coast through Nov. 30.

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Students leave new building of tsunami-hit school

SENDAI, Japan - Students walk home from Nagatoro Elementary School's new building in Watari Town, Miyagi Prefecture, on Aug. 18, 2014. The original building was damaged by the earthquake and tsunami that hit northeastern Japan in March 2011.

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Students leave new building of tsunami-hit school

SENDAI, Japan - Students walk home from Arahama Junior High School's new building in Watari Town, Miyagi Prefecture, on Aug. 18, 2014. The original building was damaged by the earthquake and tsunami that hit the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku in March 2011. Classrooms are located on the second and third floors of the new building.

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Pupils study in new building of tsunami-hit school

SENDAI, Japan - Pupils study in a classroom in Nagatoro Elementary School's new building in Watari Town, Miyagi Prefecture, on Aug. 18, 2014. The original building was damaged by the earthquake and tsunami that hit the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku in March 2011.

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M'bishi Heavy to boost parts output for B787 in Shimonoseki

SHIMONOSEKI, Japan - Toru Kitamura (L), head of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.'s Shimonoseki Shipyard & Machinery Works in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, and Shimonoseki Mayor Tomoaki Nakao (R) shake hands on Aug. 18, 2014, in the western Japanese city after the Japanese heavy machinery makers and the city signed an agreement related to a plan to increase the production of wing boxes for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner at the plant.

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Gov't starts drilling survey for U.S. base relocation

NAGO, Japan - Japan's Defense Ministry starts a drilling survey on Aug. 18, 2014, with a jack-up barge in waters off the Henoko district of Nago in Okinawa Prefecture at the planned relocation site for the U.S. Futenma airbase. The ministry plans to conduct the drilling survey at 16 seabed sites off the coast through Nov. 30.

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Hyogo Pref. urges Russian Far East to invite investment

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Toru Okada, director of the International Economic Development Division of the Hyogo prefectural government, stresses the advantages of inviting Japanese companies from the western Japan prefecture to Russia's Far Eastern region at an economic seminar in Vladivostok on Aug. 18, 2014.

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Softbank's new smartphone has same specs in Japan, U.S.

TOKYO, Japan - Softbank Corp. unveils a new smartphone series in Tokyo on Aug. 18, 2014, having the same specifications in Japan and the United States. The Aquos Crystal handset has been developed jointly with U.S. subsidiary Sprint Corp. for sale in the two countries to cut procurement costs.

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Gov't starts drilling survey for U.S. base relocation

NAGO, Japan - Japan's Defense Ministry starts a drilling survey on Aug. 18, 2014, with a jack-up barge in waters off the Henoko district of Nago in Okinawa Prefecture at the planned relocation site for the U.S. Futenma airbase. The ministry plans to conduct the drilling survey at 16 seabed sites off the coast through Nov. 30.

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Thai police receive DNA sample of Japanese man

BANGKOK, Thailand - Photo taken Aug. 18, 2014, shows the Thai national police headquarters in Bangkok. The lawyer of a Japanese man suspected of fathering at least 15 surrogate babies submitted the same day a DNA sample to Thai police investigating a case of nine pairs of surrogate babies and nannies found in an apartment in Bangkok early that month, to be used in paternity testing to verify his claim to be the biological father.

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Gov't starts drilling survey for U.S. base relocation

NAGO, Japan - Japan's Defense Ministry starts a drilling survey on Aug. 18, 2014, with a jack-up barge in waters off the Henoko district of Nago in Okinawa Prefecture at the planned relocation site for the U.S. Futenma airbase. The ministry plans to conduct the drilling survey at 16 seabed sites off the coast through Nov. 30.

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Sankei reporter appears at prosecutors' office

SEOUL, South Korea - Tatsuya Kato, the Seoul bureau chief of the mass circulation Japanese daily Sankei Shimbun, appears on Aug. 18, 2014, at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office in the South Korean capital. Kato, 48, was summoned for questioning to determine whether an article he penned defamed President Park Geun Hye.

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World Heritage shrine's stage being re-covered

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Work to re-cover a wooden stage -- a national treasure -- of Itsukushima Shrine, a UNESCO World Heritage site, gets under way for the first repair in 26 years in Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan, on Aug. 18, 2014.

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Japanese light rail cars aid U.S. public transportation boom

NEW YORK, United States - File photo taken in July, 2014, shows a light rail train on a demonstration ride for media members stopping at a station adjacent to the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Dallas Area Rapid Transit, which opened its first light rail routes in 1996, will launch the 8-kilometer light rail extension on Aug. 18 to connect the major American airport to its 145-km-long network.

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ANA's passenger service on cargo flight

TOKYO, Japan - The first "Galaxy Flight," All Nippon Airways Co.'s passenger service on its midnight cargo flight between Haneda airport in Tokyo and Naha airport in Okinawa Prefecture, is seen at Haneda on July 17, 2014. The service runs from July 18 to Aug. 31 at the price of 9,700 yen for one way.

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ANA's passenger service on cargo flight

TOKYO, Japan - All Nippon Airways Co. Senior Vice President Katsuya Kato speaks at a ceremony for the first "Galaxy Flight," the airline's passenger service on its midnight cargo flight between Haneda airport in Tokyo and Naha airport in Okinawa Prefecture, at Haneda on July 17, 2014. The service runs from July 18 to Aug. 31 at the price of 9,700 yen for one way.

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College graduate returns to hometown in China's Fujian to be goatherd

STORY: College graduate returns to hometown in China's Fujian to be goatherd DATELINE: Aug. 9, 2022 LENGTH: 00:03:21 LOCATION: FUZHOU, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Wang Qi raising goats in her hometown in China's Fujian STORYLINE: Wang Qi worked as a Spanish translator for foreign trade in Guangdong Province after graduating from college in 2014. In 2019, Wang returned to her hometown Yushan Island, which belongs to the city of Fuding, east China's Fujian Province. Then she decided to engage in animal husbandry -- raising goats. Wang has since learned how to tend goats via internet. With the policy support from the town-level government, she got a loan to renovate the goat sheds, offering the animals a modern home. Wang and his family set up a goat farming cooperative to help villagers get rich by raising and selling goats on commission. Up to 18 villagers have signed up for the cooperative, with an annual dividend of 9,000 yuan (1,332 USD) per person. Wang realized her dream through h

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CHINA-SICHUAN-YALONG RIVER-LIANGHEKOU HYDROPOWER PLANT (CN)

(220318) -- YAJIANG, March 18, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Aerial photo taken on Aug. 17, 2021 shows transmission lines of Lianghekou hydropower plant on the Yalong River in Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Garze, southwest China's Sichuan Province. With the last 500,000-kW power generation unit officially putting into use, the Lianghekou hydropower plant built at an average altitude of 3,000 meters, the highest one of its kind in China, went fully operational on Friday. With a planned total installed capacity of 3 million kW and an approved investment of 66.5 billion yuan (about 10.5 billion U.S. dollars), construction of the project started in October 2014 and is expected to be fully completed by 2023, according to the Yalong River Hydropower Development Company, Ltd. The storage capacity of the reservoir is designed to reach 10.8 billion cubic meters, and the annual power generation volume is expected to surpass 11 billion kWh. The Yalong River basin is one of China's clean energy bases. The operation of the

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CHINA-SICHUAN-YALONG RIVER-LIANGHEKOU HYDROPOWER PLANT (CN)

(220318) -- YAJIANG, March 18, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Aerial photo taken on Aug. 14, 2021 shows Lianghekou hydropower plant on the Yalong River in Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Garze, southwest China's Sichuan Province. With the last 500,000-kW power generation unit officially putting into use, the Lianghekou hydropower plant built at an average altitude of 3,000 meters, the highest one of its kind in China, went fully operational on Friday. With a planned total installed capacity of 3 million kW and an approved investment of 66.5 billion yuan (about 10.5 billion U.S. dollars), construction of the project started in October 2014 and is expected to be fully completed by 2023, according to the Yalong River Hydropower Development Company, Ltd. The storage capacity of the reservoir is designed to reach 10.8 billion cubic meters, and the annual power generation volume is expected to surpass 11 billion kWh. The Yalong River basin is one of China's clean energy bases. The operation of the Lianghekou hydropower

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CHINA-SICHUAN-YALONG RIVER-LIANGHEKOU HYDROPOWER PLANT (CN)

(220318) -- YAJIANG, March 18, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on Aug. 20, 2021 shows the interior view of Lianghekou hydropower plant on the Yalong River in Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Garze, southwest China's Sichuan Province. With the last 500,000-kW power generation unit officially putting into use, the Lianghekou hydropower plant built at an average altitude of 3,000 meters, the highest one of its kind in China, went fully operational on Friday. With a planned total installed capacity of 3 million kW and an approved investment of 66.5 billion yuan (about 10.5 billion U.S. dollars), construction of the project started in October 2014 and is expected to be fully completed by 2023, according to the Yalong River Hydropower Development Company, Ltd. The storage capacity of the reservoir is designed to reach 10.8 billion cubic meters, and the annual power generation volume is expected to surpass 11 billion kWh. The Yalong River basin is one of China's clean energy bases. The operation of the Lianghe

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CHINA-SICHUAN-YALONG RIVER-LIANGHEKOU HYDROPOWER PLANT (CN)

(220318) -- YAJIANG, March 18, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Aerial photo taken on Aug. 21, 2021 shows Lianghekou hydropower plant on the Yalong River in Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Garze, southwest China's Sichuan Province. With the last 500,000-kW power generation unit officially putting into use, the Lianghekou hydropower plant built at an average altitude of 3,000 meters, the highest one of its kind in China, went fully operational on Friday. With a planned total installed capacity of 3 million kW and an approved investment of 66.5 billion yuan (about 10.5 billion U.S. dollars), construction of the project started in October 2014 and is expected to be fully completed by 2023, according to the Yalong River Hydropower Development Company, Ltd. The storage capacity of the reservoir is designed to reach 10.8 billion cubic meters, and the annual power generation volume is expected to surpass 11 billion kWh. The Yalong River basin is one of China's clean energy bases. The operation of the Lianghekou hydropower

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WWII veteran recalls fighting Russian invasion of northern islands

Hidetaka Oda recalls during an interview in Higashine, Yamagata Prefecture, northern Japan, on Dec. 29, 2014, his involvement in a battle when Soviet troops began invading the Kuril Islands in the Far East on Aug. 18, 1945, three days after Japan's surrender in World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Leader of Jewish-Palestinian choir speaks in Tokyo

Micah Hendler speaks in Tokyo about his work of leading a Jerusalem-based choir of young Jewish and Palestinian people, as seen in this file photo taken on Aug. 18, 2014. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-swimmer to aid female athletes with medical knowledge

TOKYO, Japan - Yuko Sakurama, senior manager of the brand-new Japanese Center for Research on Women in Sport at Juntendo University, says in an interview on Aug. 18, 2014, that she will support Japanese female athletes for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games with her medical knowledge and experience as a former top swimmer. (Kyodo)

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Sculptor of late yokozuna Taiho's statue erected in Russia

SAPPORO, Japan - Sculptor Toshio Kamada, shown in this file photo taken on Aug. 18, 2014, regards the 2.3-meter-tall statue of the late Japanese sumo legend Taiho he produced as a milestone in his career. He visited the grand champion's birthplace in Poronaysk in Russia's Far Eastern region of Sakhalin in August to attend an unveiling ceremony for the statue. (Kyodo)

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Drilling survey undertaken off Henoko for U.S. base move

FUKUOKA, Japan - A drilling survey is undertaken with a jack-up rig off the Henoko district of Nago in Okinawa, Japan's southernmost prefecture, on Aug. 18, 2014. The survey is being carried out for the relocation of the U.S. Futenma air base in Ginowan, southern Okinawa. (Kyodo)