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(SKYEYE) CHINA-ZHEJIANG-HANGZHOU-AERIAL VIEWS (CN)

(230914) -- HANGZHOU, Sept. 14, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This aerial photo taken on Aug. 21, 2023 shows the Huanglong Sports Center in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province. The 19th Asian Games will take place in Hangzhou between September 23 and October 8, featuring a total of 40 sports. It will be the third Asian Games to be hosted in China, after Beijing 1990 and Guangzhou 2010. The highly anticipated Asian Games can help boost the popularity of Hangzhou where history and modernity co-exist and further promote its culture. (Xinhua/Huang Zongzhi)

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(SKYEYE) CHINA-ZHEJIANG-HANGZHOU-AERIAL VIEWS (CN)

(230914) -- HANGZHOU, Sept. 14, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This aerial photo taken on Aug. 24, 2023 shows the Fuyang Water Sports Center in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province. The 19th Asian Games will take place in Hangzhou between September 23 and October 8, featuring a total of 40 sports. It will be the third Asian Games to be hosted in China, after Beijing 1990 and Guangzhou 2010. The highly anticipated Asian Games can help boost the popularity of Hangzhou where history and modernity co-exist and further promote its culture. (Xinhua/Xu Yu)

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(SKYEYE) CHINA-ZHEJIANG-HANGZHOU-AERIAL VIEWS (CN)

(230914) -- HANGZHOU, Sept. 14, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This aerial photo taken on Aug. 23, 2023 shows the Gongshu Canal Sports Park Gymnasium in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province. The 19th Asian Games will take place in Hangzhou between September 23 and October 8, featuring a total of 40 sports. It will be the third Asian Games to be hosted in China, after Beijing 1990 and Guangzhou 2010. The highly anticipated Asian Games can help boost the popularity of Hangzhou where history and modernity co-exist and further promote its culture. (Xinhua/Huang Zongzhi)

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(SKYEYE) CHINA-ZHEJIANG-HANGZHOU-AERIAL VIEWS (CN)

(230914) -- HANGZHOU, Sept. 14, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This aerial photo taken on Aug. 23, 2023 shows the Gongshu Canal Sports Park Stadium in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province. The 19th Asian Games will take place in Hangzhou between September 23 and October 8, featuring a total of 40 sports. It will be the third Asian Games to be hosted in China, after Beijing 1990 and Guangzhou 2010. The highly anticipated Asian Games can help boost the popularity of Hangzhou where history and modernity co-exist and further promote its culture. (Xinhua/Huang Zongzhi)

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U.S.-ECONOMY-HOME SALES

(230823) -- SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 23, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Aug. 22, 2023 shows an advertisement in front of a real estate for sales in Millbrae, California, the United States. The sales of previously owned homes in the United States dropped 2.2 percent in July from June to a seasonally adjusted, annualized rate of 4.07 million units, the National Association of Realtors reported Tuesday. Sales were 16.6 percent lower compared with July of last year, while homes were sold at the slowest July pace since 2010. (Photo by Li Jianguo/Xinhua)

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U.S.-ECONOMY-HOME SALES

(230823) -- SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 23, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Aug. 22, 2023 shows an advertisement in front of a real estate for sales in Millbrae, California, the United States. The sales of previously owned homes in the United States dropped 2.2 percent in July from June to a seasonally adjusted, annualized rate of 4.07 million units, the National Association of Realtors reported Tuesday. Sales were 16.6 percent lower compared with July of last year, while homes were sold at the slowest July pace since 2010. (Photo by Li Jianguo/Xinhua)

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U.S.-ECONOMY-HOME SALES

(230823) -- SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 23, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Aug. 22, 2023 shows an advertisement in front of a real estate for sales in Millbrae, California, the United States. The sales of previously owned homes in the United States dropped 2.2 percent in July from June to a seasonally adjusted, annualized rate of 4.07 million units, the National Association of Realtors reported Tuesday. Sales were 16.6 percent lower compared with July of last year, while homes were sold at the slowest July pace since 2010. (Photo by Li Jianguo/Xinhua)

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U.S.-ECONOMY-HOME SALES

(230823) -- SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 23, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Aug. 22, 2023 shows an advertisement in front of a real estate for sales in Millbrae, California, the United States. The sales of previously owned homes in the United States dropped 2.2 percent in July from June to a seasonally adjusted, annualized rate of 4.07 million units, the National Association of Realtors reported Tuesday. Sales were 16.6 percent lower compared with July of last year, while homes were sold at the slowest July pace since 2010. (Photo by Li Jianguo/Xinhua)

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U.S.-ECONOMY-HOME SALES

(230823) -- SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 23, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Aug. 22, 2023 shows an advertisement in front of a real estate for sales in Millbrae, California, the United States. The sales of previously owned homes in the United States dropped 2.2 percent in July from June to a seasonally adjusted, annualized rate of 4.07 million units, the National Association of Realtors reported Tuesday. Sales were 16.6 percent lower compared with July of last year, while homes were sold at the slowest July pace since 2010. (Photo by Li Jianguo/Xinhua)

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Puppet animation producer Kawamoto dies

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in March 2006 shows Japan's leading puppet animation producer Kihachiro Kawamoto, who died of pneumonia on Aug. 23, 2010, at the age of 85.

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Puppet animation producer Kawamoto dies

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in March 2007 shows Japan's leading puppet animation producer Kihachiro Kawamoto (R) and a puppet of Zhuge Liang, a figure in the NHK series ''Sangokushi'' (The Romance of the Three Kingdoms). Kawamoto died of pneumonia on Aug. 23, 2010, at the age of 85.

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Flood in Pakistan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A man retrieves some of his belonging in a village in northwestern Pakistan on Aug. 23, 2010 after severe floods devastated the area.

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Matsui hits 2-run double

ANAHEIM, United States - Los Angeles Angels designated hitter Hideki Matsui hits a two-run double to center in the third inning of a game against the Tampa Bay Rays at Angel Stadium in Anaheim on Aug. 23, 2010. Matsui went 1-for-4 as his team lost 3-4.

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Matsui hits 2-run double

ANAHEIM, United States - Los Angeles Angels designated hitter Hideki Matsui hits a two-run double to center in the third inning of a game against the Tampa Bay Rays at Angel Stadium in Anaheim on Aug. 23, 2010. Matsui went 1-for-4 as his team lost 3-4.

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Matsui hits 2-run double

ANAHEIM, United States - Los Angeles Angels designated hitter Hideki Matsui hits a two-run double to center in the third inning of a game against the Tampa Bay Rays at Angel Stadium in Anaheim on Aug. 23, 2010. Matsui went 1-for-4 as his team lost 3-4.

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Chong double leads Bochum to season-opening win

BOCHUM, Germany - VfL Bochum's Chong Tese (L), a Japan-born North Korea national team striker, celebrates with a teammate after scoring a goal in the first half against 1860 Munich in their season opener in the German second division in Bochum, Germany, on Aug. 23, 2010. Bochum won 3-2.

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Chong double leads Bochum to season-opening win

BOCHUM, Germany - VfL Bochum' s Chong Tese (2nd from L), a Japan-born North Korea national team striker, chases the ball in the second half against 1860 Munich in their season opener in the German second division in Bochum, Germany, on Aug. 23, 2010. Bochum won 3-2.

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Ichiro singles against Red Sox

BOSTON, United States - Seattle Mariners right fielder Ichiro Suzuki singles to left in the sixth inning of a game against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park in Boston on Aug. 23, 2010.

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Wrestlers gather at sumo association meeting

TOKYO, Japan - Grand champion Hakuho (L) and ozeki Kaio (R) take part in a meeting with other wrestlers, staff members and leaders of the Japan Sumo Association at the Ryogoku Kokugikan gymnasium in Tokyo on Aug. 23, 2010. The JSA in a rare move held the meeting as part of efforts to restore the sport's tarnished reputation in the wake of a series of gang-linked scandals.

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Top jockeys help slumping Hokkaido horse race

SAPPORO, Japan - Yutaka Take (R, crouching) and other top jockeys in Japan take part in a promotional event for the Banei horse race in Obihiro, Hokkaido, on Aug. 23, 2010. The organizer of the race, known for its unique style in which a horse pulls a jockey on an iron sleigh on the 200-meter course with slopes, has tried unsuccessfully to increase the number of punters and spectators.

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Prayers for unidentified souls

KYOTO, Japan - A child lights a candle as women pray for the repose of the souls of unidentified deceased people at a number of tombstones during the Sentokuyo event at Adashino Nenbutsuji, a Buddhist temple, in Kyoto on Aug. 23, 2010.

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Astronaut Yamazaki given special science award

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese astronaut Naoko Yamazaki addresses a ceremony after being given a special award of L'Oreal UNESCO program for women in science in Tokyo on Aug. 23, 2010. Yamazaki, who stayed in the International Space Station in April, said she was grateful to her husband, parents and other supporters.

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Top jockeys help slumping Hokkaido horse race

SAPPORO, Japan - Yutaka Take (crouching) and other top jockeys in Japan take part in a promotional event for the Banei horse race in Obihiro, Hokkaido, on Aug. 23, 2010. The organizer of the race, known for its unique style in which a horse pulls a jockey on an iron sleigh on the 200-meter course with slopes, has tried unsuccessfully to increase the number of punters and spectators.

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Japan to use MLB-like baseballs

TOKYO, Japan - Nippon Professional Baseball said Aug. 23, 2010, that a new ball (R) will be used as a standardized ball by the 12 baseball teams of the Japanese Central and Pacific leagues from next season. A cross section of the new ball is shown in front, while a ball currently used is on display at left.

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Japan to use MLB-like baseballs

TOKYO, Japan - Nippon Professional Baseball commissioner Ryozo Kato shows off a new ball and its cross section to be used as a standardized ball by the 12 professional baseball teams of the Japanese Central and Pacific leagues from next season on Aug. 23, 2010, in Tokyo. The specifications of the new ball will be closer to that of Major League Baseball. NPB hopes using the new balls will give Japanese players an edge in international tournaments like the World Baseball Classic.

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Outsiders should stay out of sumo, says Asashoryu

NARITA, Japan - Former Mongolian yokozuna Asashoryu arrives at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on Aug. 23, 2010, from his native Mongolia, to make courtesy visits ahead of his retirement ceremony scheduled for Oct. 3 at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan. He thinks the Japan Sumo Association should not hire an independent committee to reform the national sport.

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12 pet dogs abandoned on Okayama mountain

OKAYAMA, Japan - Twelve small dogs are temporarily kept at an Okayama prefectural humane society on Aug. 23, 2010, after they were found on a mountain in Okayama Prefecture. A woman living near the mountain reported to police earlier in the day that the dogs, including toy poodles, Pekingese, Pomeranians and other pet dogs, were abandoned on the mountain.

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Japan, China, S. Korea to promote environment-friendly tourism

HUZHOU, China - (From L to R) Chinese National Tourism Administration Chairman Shao Qiwei, Japanese Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Seiji Maehara and South Korean Culture, Sports and Tourism Minister Yu In Chon show off documents on proposals they signed to promote environment-friendly tourism on Aug. 23, 2010, in Huzhou in China's Zhejiang Province.

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Small plane belly lands at Kobe airport

KOBE, Japan - Personnel stand around a small plane which belly-landed at Kobe airport in Hyogo Prefecture on Aug. 23, 2010. The airport suspended its runway operations following the incident, which did not result in any injuries.

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Japan's tourism minister plants tree in China

HUZHOU, China - Japan's Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Seiji Maehara plants a tree in Huzhou in China's Zhejiang Province on Aug. 23, 2010. Maehara is visiting the Chinese city for talks with his Chinese and South Korean counterparts to promote tourism with reduced environmental impact.

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CORRECTED Japan's foreign minister in Thailand

BANGKOK, Thailand - ADDING YEAR OF 2010 Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada offers a silent prayer Aug. 23, 2010, in front of a site in Bangkok where Japan-based Reuters television cameraman Hiroyuki Muramoto was shot in April amid violent clashes between security forces and antigovernment protesters. He is in Bangkok on the second leg of his tour of India and Thailand to discuss a probe into the death of the cameraman.

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Airport rail link to Bangkok international airport opens

BANGKOK, Thailand - Passengers wait to board a train linking downtown Bangkok and the city's international airport in 15 minutes on Aug. 23, 2010 the day the service opened.

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Small plane belly lands at Kobe airport

KOBE, Japan - Personnel stand around a small plane which belly-landed at Kobe airport in Hyogo Prefecture on Aug. 23, 2010. The airport suspended its runway operations following the incident, which did not result in any injuries.

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PM Kan receives foot-and-mouth disease report

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) receives a report over the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in southwestern prefecture of Miyazaki from Yasuo Ichikawa (L), chair of the agriculture and fisheries meeting in the Democratic Party of Japan, on Aug. 23, 2010, at the prime minister's office in Tokyo. The prefecture has asked Kan to support a fund to be set up to help revive local livestock farming.

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Kyoto manga museum marks 1 mil. visitors

KYOTO, Japan - Liana Smale (L), a 12-year-old sixth grader from Los Angeles, receives a certificate from ''Mamyu,'' the mascot of Kyoto International Manga Museum, at the museum in Kyoto on Aug. 23, 2010, with her family as she became the 1 millionth visitor to the museum.

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CORRECTED 27 injured in bus accident on express way

SHIZUOKA, Japan - INSERTING POOL PHOTO CREDIT A crashed bus shows damage after hitting a trailer truck on the Tomei Expressway in Shizuoka Prefecture on Aug. 23, 2010, injuring 26 passengers and the driver of the bus. (Pool Photo)

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A-bomb survivors to appear in TV commercial in Australia

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Toshiko Tanaka (R) from Hiroshima is filmed at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on July 23, 2010, for a television commercial featuring atomic-bomb survivors appealing for the abolition of nuclear weapons. The commercial will be broadcast nationwide in Australia on Aug. 6, the 65th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

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Hiroshima students call for peace at Children's Peace Monument

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Some 400 elementary and junior high school students take part in a ceremony in front of the Children's Peace Monument at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on July 23, 2010, ahead of the 65th anniversary of the atomic-bomb attack on Aug. 6.

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Hiroshima children call for peace

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Junior high school students offer paper cranes at the Children's Peace Monument in the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on July 23, 2010, prior to the 65th anniversary of the atomic-bomb attack on Aug. 6. The monument was built in memory of Sadako Sasaki, who was exposed to the bombing at age two and died ten years later with leukemia, and other young victims.

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Puppet animation producer Kawamoto dies

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in March 2007 shows Japan's leading puppet animation producer Kihachiro Kawamoto (R) and a puppet of Zhuge Liang, a figure in the NHK series ''Sangokushi'' (The Romance of the Three Kingdoms). Kawamoto died of pneumonia on Aug. 23, 2010, at the age of 85. (Kyodo)

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Puppet animation producer Kawamoto dies

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in March 2006 shows Japan's leading puppet animation producer Kihachiro Kawamoto, who died of pneumonia on Aug. 23, 2010, at the age of 85. (Kyodo)

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Flood in Pakistan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A man retrieves some of his belonging in a village in northwestern Pakistan on Aug. 23, 2010 after severe floods devastated the area. (Kyodo)

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Airport rail link to Bangkok international airport opens

BANGKOK, Thailand - Passengers wait to board a train linking downtown Bangkok and the city's international airport in 15 minutes on Aug. 23, 2010 the day the service opened. (Kyodo)

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Kyoto manga museum marks 1 mil. visitors

KYOTO, Japan - Liana Smale (L), a 12-year-old sixth grader from Los Angeles, receives a certificate from ''Mamyu,'' the mascot of Kyoto International Manga Museum, at the museum in Kyoto on Aug. 23, 2010, with her family as she became the 1 millionth visitor to the museum. (Kyodo)

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Japan, China, S. Korea to promote environment-friendly tourism

HUZHOU, China - (From L to R) Chinese National Tourism Administration Chairman Shao Qiwei, Japanese Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Seiji Maehara and South Korean Culture, Sports and Tourism Minister Yu In Chon show off documents on proposals they signed to promote environment-friendly tourism on Aug. 23, 2010, in Huzhou in China's Zhejiang Province. (Kyodo)

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Ichiro singles against Red Sox

BOSTON, United States - Seattle Mariners right fielder Ichiro Suzuki singles to left in the sixth inning of a game against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park in Boston on Aug. 23, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Sharp president Katayama

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Mikio Katayama speaks during an interview in Tokyo on Aug. 23, 2010. Katayama said the electronics maker is considering launching a handset with which people can see 3-D images with their own eyes in 2011 or later. (Kyodo)

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A-bomb survivors to appear in TV commercial in Australia

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Toshiko Tanaka (R) from Hiroshima is filmed at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on July 23, 2010, for a television commercial featuring atomic-bomb survivors appealing for the abolition of nuclear weapons. The commercial will be broadcast nationwide in Australia on Aug. 6, the 65th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima. (Kyodo)

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Chong double leads Bochum to season-opening win

BOCHUM, Germany - VfL Bochum' s Chong Tese (2nd from L), a Japan-born North Korea national team striker, chases the ball in the second half against 1860 Munich in their season opener in the German second division in Bochum, Germany, on Aug. 23, 2010. Bochum won 3-2. (Kyodo)

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Chong double leads Bochum to season-opening win

BOCHUM, Germany - VfL Bochum's Chong Tese (L), a Japan-born North Korea national team striker, celebrates with a teammate after scoring a goal in the first half against 1860 Munich in their season opener in the German second division in Bochum, Germany, on Aug. 23, 2010. Bochum won 3-2. (Kyodo)