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Pair of giant pandas in Japan to return to China for treatment

Photo taken on Aug. 31, 2024, shows female giant panda Shin Shin at Tokyo's Ueno Zoological Gardens. Shin Shin and her male mate Ri Ri, both aged 19 and on loan to Japan since 2011, will return to China on Sept. 29 for treatment for high blood pressure and other health concerns.

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Pair of giant pandas in Japan to return to China for treatment

Photo taken on Aug. 31, 2024, shows male giant panda Ri Ri at Tokyo's Ueno Zoological Gardens. Ri Ri and his female mate Shin Shin, both aged 19 and on loan to Japan since 2011, will return to China on Sept. 29 for treatment for high blood pressure and other health concerns.

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Pair of giant pandas in Japan to return to China for treatment

Photo taken on Aug. 31, 2024, shows male giant panda Ri Ri at Tokyo's Ueno Zoological Gardens. Ri Ri and his female mate Shin Shin, both aged 19 and on loan to Japan since 2011, will return to China on Sept. 29 for treatment for high blood pressure and other health concerns.

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Pair of giant pandas in Japan to return to China for treatment

Photo taken on Aug. 31, 2024, shows male giant panda Ri Ri at Tokyo's Ueno Zoological Gardens. Ri Ri and his female mate Shin Shin, both aged 19 and on loan to Japan since 2011, will return to China on Sept. 29 for treatment for high blood pressure and other health concerns.

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Pair of giant pandas in Japan to return to China for treatment

Photo taken on Aug. 31, 2024, shows male giant panda Ri Ri at Tokyo's Ueno Zoological Gardens. Ri Ri and his female mate Shin Shin, both aged 19 and on loan to Japan since 2011, will return to China on Sept. 29 for treatment for high blood pressure and other health concerns.

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Pair of giant pandas in Japan to return to China for treatment

Photo taken on Aug. 31, 2024, shows female giant panda Shin Shin at Tokyo's Ueno Zoological Gardens. Shin Shin and her male mate Ri Ri, both aged 19 and on loan to Japan since 2011, will return to China on Sept. 29 for treatment for high blood pressure and other health concerns.

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Pair of giant pandas in Japan to return to China for treatment

Photo taken on Aug. 31, 2024, shows male giant panda Ri Ri at Tokyo's Ueno Zoological Gardens. Ri Ri and his female mate Shin Shin, both aged 19 and on loan to Japan since 2011, will return to China on Sept. 29 for treatment for high blood pressure and other health concerns.

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Japanese rally against ocean discharge of nuclear-contaminated wastewater

STORY: Japanese rally against ocean discharge of nuclear-contaminated wastewater DATELINE: Aug. 19, 2023 LENGTH: 0:01:52 LOCATION: Tokyo CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1 various of the rally 2 various of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant STORYLINE: As the Japanese government approaches a decision on the specific date for the discharge of nuclear-contaminated water from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the ocean, hundreds of Japanese gathered in central Tokyo on Friday to rally against the discharge plan. Despite scorching temperatures exceeding 35 degrees Celsius, people from various parts of Japan braved the heat to gather in front of the Japanese prime minister's official residence, urging the government to uphold its promise of "no disposal without the understanding of relevant parties." Hit by a magnitude-9.0 earthquake and an ensuing tsunami on March 11, 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant suffered core meltdowns that released radiation, r

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Xinjiang aims for 12 percent GDP growth

URUMQI, China - Governor of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Nur Bekri speaks during an interview on Aug. 19, 2010, in Urumqi, the capital of China's Xinjiang. Nur said the region will aim for 12 percent economic growth in the five-year period starting in 2011, adding that economic development is the foundation to resolve all issues in the region.

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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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Kaminoseki promotes nuclear plant despite Fukushima crisis

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken on Aug. 19, 2011, shows Nagashima Island (front), the planned site for Chubu Electric Power Co.'s Kaminoseki Nuclear Power Station, in the town of Kaminoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, with Iwaishima Island visible in the distance.

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Beef cattle shipment resumed in Miyagi

KURIHARA, Japan - Livestock farmer Kenzo Yambe pushes one of his herd onto a truck for shipment in Kurihara, Miyagi Prefecture, on Aug. 23, 2011. Farms resumed the same day shipping beef cattle raised in the prefecture after the central government lifted a ban on Aug. 19.

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Beef cattle shipment resumed in Miyagi

KURIHARA, Japan - Livestock farmer Kenzo Yambe pulls one of his herd out of the stable for shipment in Kurihara, Miyagi Prefecture, on Aug. 23, 2011. Farms resumed the same day shipping beef cattle raised in the prefecture after the central government lifted a ban on Aug. 19.

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U.S. Vice Pres. Biden in China

BEIJING, China - Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden shake hands ahead of their talks at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Aug. 19, 2011. (Pool photo)

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Ban lifted on Miyagi cattle shipments

KURIHARA, Japan - Beef cattle are pictured at a farm in Kurihara, Miyagi Prefecture, on Aug. 19, 2011. The government said the same day a ban on cattle shipments from the prefecture had been lifted.

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Farm minister Kano willing to enter leadership race

TOKYO, Japan - Farm minister Michihiko Kano is surrounded by reporters in Tokyo on Aug. 19, 2011, after some of his colleagues called on him to run in the ruling Democratic Party of Japan's presidential election to pick a successor to outgoing Prime Minister Naoto Kan. Sources close to Kano said on Aug. 20 he is willing to run in the election.

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U.S. Vice Pres. Biden in China

BEIJING, China - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (R) and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden are pictured during their talks in Beijing on Aug. 19, 2011. (Pool photo)

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Matsui records 2,600th hit

OAKLAND, United States - Oakland Athletics designated hitter Hideki Matsui singles during the fifth inning of a game against the Toronto Blue Jays in Oakland, California, on Aug. 19, 2011. It was his 2,600th hit in his Japanese professional baseball and U.S. major league career.

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U.S. Vice Pres. Biden in China

BEIJING, China - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (L) shakes hands with China's Vice President Xi Jinping ahead of a roundtable meeting with U.S. and Chinese business leaders in Beijing on Aug. 19, 2011. (Pool photo)

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Dollar plunges to record low

TOKYO, Japan - An electronic signboard in Higashishimbashi, Tokyo, shows the dollar hitting 75.95 yen, its lowest level since the end of World War II, during New York trading on Aug. 19, 2011.

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Nadeshiko Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Members of Women's World Cup champions Japan, nicknamed ''Nadeshiko Japan,'' (from L to R) Karina Maruyama, Nahomi Kawasumi and Homare Sawa, celebrate the team's 3-2 victory over a Nadeshiko League select team at Tokyo's National Stadium on Aug. 19, 2011.

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U.S. Vice Pres. Biden in China

BEIJING, China - China's Vice President Xi Jinping (R) makes a speech at a roundtable meeting with U.S. and Chinese business leaders in Beijing on Aug. 19, 2011. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is seated next to him. (Pool photo)

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Goalkeeper Kawashima protests about 'Fukushima' chants

LIERSE, Belgium - Japanese goalkeeper Eiji Kawashima (front L) protests to the referee (front R) after Germinal supporters chant ''Fukushima! Fukushima!'' at the Lierse custodian, in apparent reference to the nuclear crisis in Japan, during a 1-1 draw in Lierse, Belgium, on Aug. 19, 2011. Kawashima said later, ''To use Fukushima the way they did is no joke.''

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U.S. Vice Pres. Biden in China

BEIJING, China - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (L) and China's Vice President Xi Jinping are pictured at a roundtable meeting with U.S. and Chinese business leaders in Beijing on Aug. 19, 2011. (Pool photo)

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Search continues in disaster-hit Rikuzentakata

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Police officers from Okayama and Tottori prefectures, western Japan, search for the remains of people who have remained unaccounted for since the March 11 tsunami, in Osabe fishing port in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture in northeastern Japan, on Aug. 19, 2011. Over 4,500 people are still counted as missing more than five months after the disaster. ''We want to find them, even if it might be a bone fragment,'' said a leader of the police unit taking part in the search.

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U.S. Vice Pres. Biden in China

BEIJING, China - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (R) shakes hands with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden ahead of their talks in Beijing on Aug. 19, 2011. (Pool photo)

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Japan's ban on beef shipments

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano takes questions during a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Aug. 19, 2011. Edano, Japan's top government spokesman, said a ban on beef shipments from Miyagi Prefecture had been partially lifted, starting the same day as planned. But the government decided to defer lifting a ban on beef shipments from Fukushima Prefecture as beef contaminated with an excessive level of radioactive cesium was reported to have been found there.

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Search continues in disaster-hit Rikuzentakata

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Police officers from Okayama and Tottori prefectures, western Japan, search for the remains of people who have remained unaccounted for since the March 11 tsunami, in Osabe fishing port in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture in northeastern Japan, on Aug. 19, 2011. Over 4,500 people are still counted as missing more than five months after the disaster. ''We want to find them, even if it might be a bone fragment,'' said a leader of the police unit taking part in the search.

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LED bulbs to quake-hit railways

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Tama, the famous calico cat also known as ''stationmaster,'' is pictured with light-emitting diode bulbs that features her in Kinokawa, Wakayama Prefecture, on Aug. 19, 2011. Wakayama Electric Railway Co. said the same day that it will donate 610 ''Tama bulbs'' to 10 northeastern Japan railway operators hit by the March quake and tsunami.

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Suu Kyi heads to capital

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi. Suu Kyi departed Yangon on Aug. 19, 2011, to attend a government-organized workshop on economic reform in the capital Naypyitaw.

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Japanese student missing in Niagara Falls

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in 2003 shows the Niagara Falls. The Niagara Parks Police said on Aug. 15, 2011, that a 19-year-old female Japanese student is missing after falling into the Niagara Falls on the U.S.-Canadian border.

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Ishikawa finishes 4th at Bridgestone Invitational

AKRON, United States - Japan's Ryo Ishikawa makes a shot in the final round of the Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio, on Aug. 7, 2011. The 19-year-old finished at 12-under 268 in a tie for fourth, his highest place outside of Japan.

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Ishikawa finishes 4th at Bridgestone Invitational

AKRON, United States - Japan's Ryo Ishikawa makes a shot in the final round of the Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio, on Aug. 7, 2011. The 19-year-old finished at 12-under 268 in a tie for fourth, his highest place outside of Japan.

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Ishikawa finishes 4th at Bridgestone Invitational

AKRON, United States - Japan's Ryo Ishikawa squats on his heels after missing a par putt on hole No. 15 in the final round of the Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio, on Aug. 7, 2011. The 19-year-old finished at 12-under 268 in a tie for fourth, his highest place outside of Japan.

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Hiroshima marks 66th anniv. of atomic bombing

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A woman carrying a baby prays in front of the cenotaph in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima for the victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japan city at 5:19 a.m. on Aug. 6, 2011, the 66th anniversary of the attack.

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Tunisia's discount season sluggish due to weak purchasing demand

STORY: Tunisia's discount season sluggish due to weak purchasing demand DATELINE: Aug. 8, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:00 LOCATION: Tunis CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of shopping malls in Tunisia STORYLINE: Tunisia's six-week summer discount season starting from July 4 remains sluggish amid one of the worst crises in decades. However, local media reported that due to the sluggish economy, the purchasing demand of local people has declined and this year's discount season has been ignored by many. The Tunisian economy has gone from bad to worse in recent years. While the economy has struggled since the Arab Spring uprising in 2011, its problems are aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic that broke out in 2020, when Tunisia's gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by an unprecedented 8.8 percent. In April 2021, Tunisia started to seek a 4-billion-U.S. dollar loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which was described by then Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi as the "last opportunity" to rescue the c

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Sprawling Fukushima nuke plant with piles of polluted waste stored

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 19, 2015, shows the premises of Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan, dotted with many tanks storing contaminated water. TEPCO faces an uphill battle to dispose of these and other piles of contaminated waste from the 2011 nuclear disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Waste from decontamination work loaded onto truck in Fukushima

Workers load radioactive waste left after decontamination work onto a truck in Asakawa, Fukushima Prefecture, on Aug. 19, 2015, before shipment to an interim storage facility elsewhere in the northeastern Japanese prefecture under a pilot transportation project launched as part of efforts for reconstruction from the 2011 nuclear disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kaminoseki promotes nuclear plant despite Fukushima crisis

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken on Aug. 19, 2011, shows Nagashima Island (front), the planned site for Chubu Electric Power Co.'s Kaminoseki Nuclear Power Station, in the town of Kaminoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, with Iwaishima Island visible in the distance. (Kyodo)

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Ishikawa finishes 4th at Bridgestone Invitational

AKRON, United States - Japan's Ryo Ishikawa makes a shot in the final round of the Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio, on Aug. 7, 2011. The 19-year-old finished at 12-under 268 in a tie for fourth, his highest place outside of Japan. (Kyodo)

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Ishikawa finishes 4th at Bridgestone Invitational

AKRON, United States - Japan's Ryo Ishikawa makes a shot in the final round of the Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio, on Aug. 7, 2011. The 19-year-old finished at 12-under 268 in a tie for fourth, his highest place outside of Japan. (Kyodo)

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Ishikawa finishes 4th at Bridgestone Invitational

AKRON, United States - Japan's Ryo Ishikawa squats on his heels after missing a par putt on hole No. 15 in the final round of the Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio, on Aug. 7, 2011. The 19-year-old finished at 12-under 268 in a tie for fourth, his highest place outside of Japan. (Kyodo)

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Hiroshima marks 66th anniv. of atomic bombing

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A woman carrying a baby prays in front of the cenotaph in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima for the victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japan city at 5:19 a.m. on Aug. 6, 2011, the 66th anniversary of the attack. (Kyodo)

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Train destination signboards sold for quake relief

TOKYO, Japan - Visitors to JR Tokyo Station examine train destination signboards displayed for auctioning on Aug. 19, 2011. East Japan Railway Co. is selling the items through Sept. 15 to help reconstruction of northeastern Japan areas hit by the March quake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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Train destination signboards sold for quake relief

TOKYO, Japan - Visitors to JR Tokyo Station examine train destination signboards displayed for auctioning on Aug. 19, 2011. East Japan Railway Co. is selling the items through Sept. 15 to help reconstruction of northeastern Japan areas hit by the March quake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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Beef cattle shipment resumed in Miyagi

KURIHARA, Japan - Livestock farmer Kenzo Yambe brushes one of his herd before shipment at his farm in Kurihara, Miyagi Prefecture, on Aug. 23, 2011. Farms resumed the same day shipping beef cattle raised in the prefecture after the central government lifted a ban on Aug. 19. (Kyodo)

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Beef cattle shipment resumed in Miyagi

KURIHARA, Japan - Livestock farmer Kenzo Yambe pulls one of his herd out of the stable for shipment in Kurihara, Miyagi Prefecture, on Aug. 23, 2011. Farms resumed the same day shipping beef cattle raised in the prefecture after the central government lifted a ban on Aug. 19. (Kyodo)

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Beef cattle shipment resumed in Miyagi

KURIHARA, Japan - Livestock farmer Kenzo Yambe pushes one of his herd onto a truck for shipment in Kurihara, Miyagi Prefecture, on Aug. 23, 2011. Farms resumed the same day shipping beef cattle raised in the prefecture after the central government lifted a ban on Aug. 19. (Kyodo)

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Beef cattle shipment resumed in Miyagi

KURIHARA, Japan - Livestock farmer Kenzo Yambe brushes one of his herd before shipment at his farm in Kurihara, Miyagi Prefecture, on Aug. 23, 2011. Farms resumed the same day shipping beef cattle raised in the prefecture after the central government lifted a ban on Aug. 19. (Kyodo)

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Goalkeeper Kawashima protests about 'Fukushima' chants

LIERSE, Belgium - Japanese goalkeeper Eiji Kawashima (front L) protests to the referee (front R) after Germinal supporters chant ''Fukushima! Fukushima!'' at the Lierse custodian, in apparent reference to the nuclear crisis in Japan, during a 1-1 draw in Lierse, Belgium, on Aug. 19, 2011. Kawashima said later, ''To use Fukushima the way they did is no joke.'' (Kyodo)