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Kirin funds disaster-hit fishery business in Miyagi Pref.

TOKYO, Japan - Shota Abe (2nd from L), head of Fisherman Japan that groups fishermen in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, poses with other group members in Tokyo on Aug. 27, 2014, after receiving a grant of 20 million yen from Kirin Beer Marketing Co. to finance fishery business. The group aims to conquer the impact of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami and boost the local fishery industry.

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World's biggest blanket eyed for Guinness record

SENDAI, Japan - A project to produce the world's largest blanket, about 20 meters square, by putting together handmade fabrics collected from all over the world is under way in quest of a Guinness World Record in Sendai, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 21, 2014. The project is led by German knitter Bernd Kestler of Yokohama, south of Tokyo, to encourage people in the region hit by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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World's biggest blanket eyed for Guinness record

SENDAI, Japan - A project to produce the world's largest blanket, about 20 meters square, by putting together handmade fabrics collected from all over the world is under way in quest of a Guinness World Record in Sendai, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 21, 2014. The project is led by German knitter Bernd Kestler of Yokohama, south of Tokyo, to encourage people in the region hit by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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Crown prince, princess visit Sendai

SENDAI, Japan - Crown Prince Naruhito (R) and his wife, Crown Princess Masako, arrive at JR Sendai Station in Miyagi Prefecture by bullet train on Aug. 20, 2013, to meet people affected by the March 2011 killer tsunami. (Pool photo)

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Japanese students from quake-hit areas wind up U.S. trip

WASHINGTON, United States - Japanese students from Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures in northeastern Japan that were badly hit by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster present a report during a gathering in Washington on Aug. 20, 2012, wrapping a mini-tour of the United States.

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Goldfish in bowl

TOKYO, Japan - Some 20 children invited from Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, an area hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, view about 1,000 goldfish in a large goldfish bowl at the Art Aquarium exhibition in Tokyo's Chuo Ward on Aug. 18, 2012.

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Disaster-hit students head to London

NARITA, Japan - Junior high school students from Japanese prefectures hit by the March 2011 quake and tsunami prepare to depart Narita airport near Tokyo on Aug. 1, 2012, for London. About 20 children from Iwate, Miyagi, Fukushima and Ibaraki prefectures will watch some of the Games and meet local children as guests of the Japanese Olympic Committee.

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Heart Mountain wartime internment museum

HEART MOUNTAIN, United States - Norman Mineta (far L), a former U.S. secretary of transportation, looks on as his fellow former internees cut a barbed wire ''ribbon'' during an opening ceremony for the Interpretive Learning Center in Heart Mountain, Wyoming, on Aug. 20, 2011. The facility tells the history of more than 14,000 Japanese-Americans who were forced to live at the camp during World War II.

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Kim Jong Il's train travels toward eastern Siberia

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - A special train apparently carrying North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is shown running through a coastal area of the Russian Far East on Aug. 20, 2011. The train made a brief stop the following morning at Khabarovsk en route to the Siberian city of Ulan-Ude, where the North Korean leader is scheduled to hold talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

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Honda nets free kick in CSKA victory

MOSCOW, Russia - Japan midfielder Keisuke Honda (L) and his teammates celebrate after Honda scored CSKA Moscow's second goal in a 3-0 victory over Tom Tomsk in the Russian Premier League in Moscow on Aug. 20, 2011. Honda buried a trademark free kick from just outside the penalty area two minutes after he substituted for Pavel Mamaev in the 61st minute.

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Kim Jong Il in Russia

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - A train believed to be carrying North Korean leader Kim Jong Il runs in a coastal area of the Russian Far East on Aug. 20, 2011. Kim is expected to meet with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

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Japan envoy in Tibet

LHASA, China - Japanese Ambassador to China Uichiro Niwa (R) chats with a Tibetan girl at a children's facility in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region in China, on Aug. 20, 2011. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Suu Kyi attends Myanmar gov't workshop

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar - Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi (C) takes part for the first time in a government workshop on economic reform in Myanmar's administrative capital Naypyitaw on Aug. 20, 2011. Suu Kyi said she was ''encouraged'' after meeting with President Thein Sein the previous day.

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Fukushima radioactive decontamination unit to be set up

HIRONO, Japan - Japanese nuclear disaster minister Goshi Hosono speaks to reporters in Hirono, Fukushima Prefecture, on Aug. 20, 2011. Hosono told Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato at the prefectural government office in the city of Fukushima the same day that the central government will set up a task force, probably the following week, to promote radioactive decontamination in areas surrounding the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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Nichidai Daisan wins national high school c'ship

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Players celebrate as Tokyo's Nichidai Daisan High School beat Kosei Gakuin of Aomori Prefecture 11-0 in the final of the national high school baseball championship at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, on Aug. 20, 2011.

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'Most prominent pair of antinuclear activists'

NEW YORK, United States - The New York Times in its Aug. 20, 2011 edition carries an article describing Mizuho Fukushima (R in photo), leader of Japan's opposition Social Democratic Party, and Yuichi Kaido (L in photo), secretary general of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, as ''perhaps the country's most prominent pair of antinuclear activists.''

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Japan envoy in Tibet

LHASA, China - Japanese Ambassador to China Uichiro Niwa (R) visits the busy Barkhor area in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region in China, on Aug. 20, 2011. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Japan city offers Bikini Atoll peace city alliance

MAJURO, Marshall Islands - Hiroshi Shimizu (L), mayor of the city of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture in central Japan, and Bikinian mayor Alson Kelen shake hands in Majuro, capital of the Marshall Islands in the South Pacific, on Aug. 20, 2011. The Japanese mayor offered Bikini Atoll an alliance to promote bids for peace building by the two municipalities which have been affected by U.S. nuclear tests since the mid-20th century.

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Japan envoy in Tibet

LHASA, China - Police officers carrying rifles are seen guarding the front of Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region in China, on Aug. 20, 2011. Japanese Ambassador to China Uichiro Niwa (L) visited the temple the same day. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Japan envoy in Tibet

LHASA, China - Japanese Ambassador to China Uichiro Niwa (back) visits a maker of Tibetan religious paintings called ''Thangka'' in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region in China, on Aug. 20, 2011. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Japan envoy in Tibet

LHASA, China - Japanese Ambassador to China Uichiro Niwa (L) visits Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region in China, on Aug. 20, 2011. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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2 more bodies found after tour boat accident

NAGOYA, Japan - Police officers recover a tour boat on the Tenryu River in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Aug. 20, 2011, three days after it sank in an accident. Authorities the same day found the bodies of two more people involved in the accident, bringing the death toll to four while a 2-year-old boy remained missing.

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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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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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Japan set to take S. Korea to WTO over Fukushima import ban

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga holds a daily press briefing in Tokyo on Aug. 20, 2015. The government is set to ask the World Trade Organization to set up a panel to rule over South Korea's import ban on Japanese fishery products following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis, Suga said. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Evacuation order for Naraha to be lifted

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (far L) addresses a meeting of the government's taskforce on nuclear disaster in Tokyo on Aug. 7, 2015, as it decided to lift the evacuation order for the northeastern Japanese town of Naraha on Sept. 5. The order was issued in the wake of the March 2011 nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi complex, as most areas of the town are within a 20-kilometer radius of the plant. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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10 years after Great East Japan Earthquake

Photo (top) taken on Aug. 26, 2011, shows an agricultural field in Okuma, a northeastern Japan town that co-hosts the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. An intermediate storage facility for decontaminated waste from the nuclear crisis built in the same area is pictured on Feb. 20, 2021, with the nuclear power plant seen in the back.

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Tsunami-hit area then and now

Photo (top) taken March 20, 2011 shows a railway in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, in the wake of the M9.0 earthquake and tsunami on March 11 that year. Bottom photo taken Aug. 20, 2015, shows a bus running in the same area. The railway operator gave up restoring the railway service due to costs and instead launched high-speed bus services for the local residents. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Heart Mountain wartime internment museum

HEART MOUNTAIN, United States - Former Japanese-American internees at a wartime concentration camp wait to enter the newly built Interpretive Learning Center in Heart Mountain, Wyoming, on Aug. 20, 2011. The facility tells the history of more than 14,000 Japanese-Americans who were forced to live at the camp during World War II. (Kyodo)

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Heart Mountain wartime internment museum

HEART MOUNTAIN, United States - Norman Mineta (far L), a former U.S. secretary of transportation, looks on as his fellow former internees cut a barbed wire ''ribbon'' during an opening ceremony for the Interpretive Learning Center in Heart Mountain, Wyoming, on Aug. 20, 2011. The facility tells the history of more than 14,000 Japanese-Americans who were forced to live at the camp during World War II. (Kyodo)

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Fukushima students in Austria

VIENNA, Austria - High school students from Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, attend a farewell party at the Japanese ambassador's official residence in Vienna, Austria, on Aug. 20, 2011. The Rotary Club of Austria invited 21 students from Fukushima Prefecture affected by the March quake and tsunami disaster for three-week homestays in Austria. (Kyodo)

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Honda nets free kick in CSKA victory

MOSCOW, Russia - Japan midfielder Keisuke Honda (L) and his teammates celebrate after Honda scored CSKA Moscow's second goal in a 3-0 victory over Tom Tomsk in the Russian Premier League in Moscow on Aug. 20, 2011. Honda buried a trademark free kick from just outside the penalty area two minutes after he substituted for Pavel Mamaev in the 61st minute. (Kyodo)

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Kim Jong Il's train travels toward eastern Siberia

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - A special train apparently carrying North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is shown running through a coastal area of the Russian Far East on Aug. 20, 2011. The train made a brief stop the following morning at Khabarovsk en route to the Siberian city of Ulan-Ude, where the North Korean leader is scheduled to hold talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. (Kyodo)

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'Most prominent pair of antinuclear activists'

NEW YORK, United States - The New York Times in its Aug. 20, 2011 edition carries an article describing Mizuho Fukushima (R in photo), leader of Japan's opposition Social Democratic Party, and Yuichi Kaido (L in photo), secretary general of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, as ''perhaps the country's most prominent pair of antinuclear activists.'' (Kyodo)

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Japan envoy in Tibet

LHASA, China - Japanese Ambassador to China Uichiro Niwa (R) chats with a Tibetan girl at a children's facility in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region in China, on Aug. 20, 2011. (Pool photo by Kyodo News) (Kyodo)

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Kim Jong Il in Russia

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - A train believed to be carrying North Korean leader Kim Jong Il runs in a coastal area of the Russian Far East on Aug. 20, 2011. Kim is expected to meet with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. (Kyodo)

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Japan city offers Bikini Atoll peace city alliance

MAJURO, Marshall Islands - Hiroshi Shimizu (L), mayor of the city of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture in central Japan, and Bikinian mayor Alson Kelen shake hands in Majuro, capital of the Marshall Islands in the South Pacific, on Aug. 20, 2011. The Japanese mayor offered Bikini Atoll an alliance to promote bids for peace building by the two municipalities which have been affected by U.S. nuclear tests since the mid-20th century. (Kyodo)

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Suu Kyi attends Myanmar gov't workshop

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar - Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi (C) takes part for the first time in a government workshop on economic reform in Myanmar's administrative capital Naypyitaw on Aug. 20, 2011. Suu Kyi said she was ''encouraged'' after meeting with President Thein Sein the previous day. (Kyodo)

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Fukushima radioactive decontamination unit to be set up

HIRONO, Japan - Japanese nuclear disaster minister Goshi Hosono speaks to reporters in Hirono, Fukushima Prefecture, on Aug. 20, 2011. Hosono told Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato at the prefectural government office in the city of Fukushima the same day that the central government will set up a task force, probably the following week, to promote radioactive decontamination in areas surrounding the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. (Kyodo)

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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. (Kyodo)

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Japan envoy in Tibet

LHASA, China - Police officers carrying rifles are seen guarding the front of Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region in China, on Aug. 20, 2011. Japanese Ambassador to China Uichiro Niwa (L) visited the temple the same day. (Pool photo by Kyodo News) (Kyodo)

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Japan envoy in Tibet

LHASA, China - Japanese Ambassador to China Uichiro Niwa (R) visits the busy Barkhor area in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region in China, on Aug. 20, 2011. (Pool photo by Kyodo News) (Kyodo)

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Japan envoy in Tibet

LHASA, China - Japanese Ambassador to China Uichiro Niwa (L) visits Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region in China, on Aug. 20, 2011. (Pool photo by Kyodo News) (Kyodo)

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Japan envoy in Tibet

LHASA, China - Japanese Ambassador to China Uichiro Niwa (back) visits a maker of Tibetan religious paintings called ''Thangka'' in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region in China, on Aug. 20, 2011. (Pool photo by Kyodo News) (Kyodo)

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2 more bodies found after tour boat accident

NAGOYA, Japan - Police officers recover a tour boat on the Tenryu River in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Aug. 20, 2011, three days after it sank in an accident. Authorities the same day found the bodies of two more people involved in the accident, bringing the death toll to four while a 2-year-old boy remained missing. (Kyodo)

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Nichidai Daisan wins national high school c'ship

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Players celebrate as Tokyo's Nichidai Daisan High School beat Kosei Gakuin of Aomori Prefecture 11-0 in the final of the national high school baseball championship at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, on Aug. 20, 2011. (Kyodo)

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Children study liquefaction

TOKYO, Japan - Children conduct experiments to simulate soil liquefaction, a phenomenon seen during an earthquake, using plastic bottles, sand and water at the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in central Tokyo on Aug. 17, 2011. The children are taking part in an annual summertime event for elementary and junior high school students to visit central government offices. The event, in which 24 ministries and agencies participate, began the same day and continues until Aug. 18, except in the case of the Japan Meteorological Agency, which will host the students on Aug. 20 and 21. (Kyodo)

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Children study radiation

TOKYO, Japan - Children learn the basics of radiation at the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in central Tokyo on Aug. 17, 2011, at an annual summertime event for elementary and junior high school students to visit central government offices. The event, in which 24 ministries and agencies participate, began the same day and continues until Aug. 18, except in the case of the Japan Meteorological Agency, which will host the students on Aug. 20 and 21. (Kyodo)

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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. (Kyodo)

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Kirin funds disaster-hit fishery business in Miyagi Pref.

TOKYO, Japan - Shota Abe (2nd from L), head of Fisherman Japan that groups fishermen in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, poses with other group members in Tokyo on Aug. 27, 2014, after receiving a grant of 20 million yen from Kirin Beer Marketing Co. to finance fishery business. The group aims to conquer the impact of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami and boost the local fishery industry. (Kyodo)