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English translation of Murakami novel goes on sale

NEW YORK, United States - The owner of a New York bookstore holds a copy of "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage" by Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami at his store on Aug. 12, 2014. The English translation of the book, originally published in Japanese in April 2013, went on sale in bookstores across the United States the same day.

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Alpinist Noguchi captures life, death in photos

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese alpinist Ken Noguchi speaks about his recently published photo book during an interview on Aug. 12, 2013 in Tokyo.

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Sushi-shaped donuts

BANGKOK, Thailand - A high-school girl in Bangkok tastes a donut that looks like sushi in the Thai capital on Aug. 12, 2013. Mister Donut will offer the "Sushido" until the end of September.

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Israeli filmmaker locates Japanese woman featured in '50s picture book

TOKYO, Japan - Dvorit Shargal (R), an Israeli filmmaker, and Eva Crafoord from Sweden, hold a picture book titled "Eva visits Noriko-san" in Tokyo on Aug. 12, 2013. Shargal, after a three-year search, has located and met with Noriko-san, a Japanese woman who as a girl was featured in the book that has remained popular in Israel for more than half a century. Crafoord, who was the other heroine in the book and accompanied the filmmaker in her search for Noriko in Japan, also met with the woman. Shargal came to Tokyo on Aug. 12 to look for Noriko and feature her in a documentary film.

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Yankees beat Angels

NEW YORK, United States - New York Yankees starter Hiroki Kuroda pitches against the Los Angeles Angels at Yankee Stadium in New York on Aug. 12, 2013. Kuroda pitched eight shutout innings in the Yankees' 2-1 win.

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Yankees beat Angels

NEW YORK, United States - New York Yankees starter Hiroki Kuroda pitches against the Los Angeles Angels at Yankee Stadium in New York on Aug. 12, 2013. Kuroda pitched eight shutout innings in the Yankees' 2-1 win.

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Yankees beat Angels

NEW YORK, United States - New York Yankees starter Hiroki Kuroda pitches against the Los Angeles Angels at Yankee Stadium in New York on Aug. 12, 2013. Kuroda pitched eight shutout innings in the Yankees' 2-1 win.

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Yankees beat Angels

NEW YORK, United States - The New York Yankees' Ichiro Suzuki hits an infield single to second during the sixth inning of a game against the Los Angeles Angels at Yankee Stadium in New York on Aug. 12, 2013. The Yankees won 2-1.

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Yankees beat Angels

NEW YORK, United States - The New York Yankees' Ichiro Suzuki (back) reaches first base behind Los Angeles Angels first baseman Mark Trumbo after hitting an infield single to second during the sixth inning at Yankee Stadium in New York on Aug. 12, 2013. The Yankees won 2-1.

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Darvish loses no-hitter

HOUSTON, United States - Texas Rangers starter Yu Darvish pitches against the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas, on Aug. 12, 2013. Astros catcher Carlos Corporan hit a home run against Darvish in the eighth inning, ending the right-hander's bid for his first no-no in the majors. The Rangers won 2-1.

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World athletics championships

MOSCOW, Russia - Japan's Seito Yamamoto makes an attempt during the men's pole vault final at the world athletics championships in Moscow, Russia, on Aug. 12, 2013. Yamamoto finished 6th.

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World athletics championships

MOSCOW, Russia - Christine Ohuruogu of Britain (R) crosses the finish line in the women's 400 meters final at the world athletics championships in Moscow, Russia, on Aug. 12, 2013. Ohuruogu won the gold medal with a time of 49.41 seconds. To the left is Botswana's Amantle Montsho, who won the silver medal.

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Darvish loses no-hitter

HOUSTON, United States - Photo shows Texas Rangers pitcher Yu Darvish (R) after Houston Astros catcher Carlos Corporan (L) homered during the eighth inning of a game at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas, on Aug. 12, 2013, ending the right-hander's bid for his first no-no in the majors. The Rangers won 2-1.

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World athletics championships

MOSCOW, Russia - Pawel Fajdek of Poland competes in the men's hammer throw final at the world athletics championships in Moscow, Russia, on Aug. 12, 2013. Fajdek won the gold medal.

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World athletics championships

MOSCOW, Russia - Christine Ohuruogu of Britain waves after winning the gold medal in the women's 400 meters at the world athletics championships in Moscow, Russia, on Aug. 12, 2013.

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World athletics championships

MOSCOW, Russia - Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica (R) runs in the women's 100 meters final at the world athletics championships in Moscow, Russia, on Aug. 12, 2013. She won the gold medal with a time of 10.71 seconds. To the left is English Gardner of the United States, who finished 4th.

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World athletics championships

MOSCOW, Russia - Pawel Fajdek of Poland celebrates his victory in the men's hammer throw final at the world athletics championships in Moscow, Russia, on Aug. 12, 2013.

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World athletics championships

MOSCOW, Russia - Japan's Koji Murofushi competes in the men's hammer throw final at the world athletics championships in Moscow, Russia, on Aug. 12, 2013. Murofushi finished 6th. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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World athletics championships

MOSCOW, Russia - Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt receives the gold medal in the men's 100 meters race of the world athletics championships during the award ceremony in Moscow on Aug. 12, 2013.

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Darvish loses no-hitter

HOUSTON, United States - Texas Rangers starter Yu Darvish pitches against the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas, on Aug. 12, 2013. Astros catcher Carlos Corporan hit a home run against Darvish in the eighth inning, ending the right-hander's bid for his first no-no in the majors. The Rangers won 2-1.

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Darvish loses no-hitter

HOUSTON, United States - Texas Rangers starter Yu Darvish pitches against the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas, on Aug. 12, 2013. Astros catcher Carlos Corporan hit a home run against Darvish in the eighth inning, ending the right-hander's bid for his first no-no in the majors. The Rangers won 2-1.

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World athletics championships

MOSCOW, Russia - David Oliver of the United States reacts after winning gold in the men's 110-meter hurdles of the world athletics championships in Moscow on Aug. 12, 2013.

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World athletics championships

MOSCOW, Russia - David Oliver of the United States competes in the men's 110-meter hurdles final of the world athletics championships in Moscow on Aug. 12, 2013. He won gold.

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U.S. envoy Roos

NARITA, Japan - Outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos waves to people seeing him off at Narita airport near Tokyo on Aug. 12, 2013.

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Awa dance festival

TOKUSHIMA, Japan - The Awa dance festival begins in Tokushima, western Japan, on Aug. 12, 2013.

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Astronauts bound for ISS

MOSCOW, Russia - (From L) Astronauts Richard Mastracchio of the United States, Koichi Wakata of Japan and Mikhail Tyurin of Russia hold a press conference at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in the suburbs of Moscow on Aug. 12, 2013. They will head to the International Space Station on a Soyuz spacecraft in November 2013.

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Japan's highest temperature

KOCHI, Japan - A man and boy play in the Shimanto River in Shimanto, Kochi Prefecture, on Aug. 12, 2013. The western Japan city registered 41.0 C the same day, the highest recorded temperature in the country.

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U.S.-Philippine defense talks

MANILA, Philippines - Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario (L) and Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin hold a press conference in Manila on Aug. 12, 2013. The United States and the Philippines will kick off formal negotiations to spell out activities to be carried out by U.S. troops in the Philippines, after a series of informal discussions that started the previous year.

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Oliver Stone in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. film director Oliver Stone holds a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Aug. 12, 2013.

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JAL jet crash anniversary

UENO, Japan - Japan Airlines Co. President Yoshiharu Ueki offers flowers at a cenotaph at the site of the 1985 JAL jumbo jet crash on Osutaka Ridge in the village of Ueno, Gunma Prefecture, on Aug. 12, 2013, the 28th anniversary of the accident. All but four of the 524 passengers and crew on board were killed when the Boeing 747 flying from Tokyo to Osaka crashed. It was the worst single-aircraft accident ever. (Pool photo)

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JAL jet crash anniversary

UENO, Japan - Japan Airlines Co. President Yoshiharu Ueki puts his hands together at a cenotaph at the site of the 1985 JAL jumbo jet crash on Osutaka Ridge in the village of Ueno, Gunma Prefecture, on Aug. 12, 2013, the 28th anniversary of the accident. All but four of the 524 passengers and crew on board were killed when the Boeing 747 flying from Tokyo to Osaka crashed. It was the worst single-aircraft accident ever. (Pool photo)

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JAL jet crash anniversary

UENO, Japan - Japan Airlines Co. President Yoshiharu Ueki lowers his head at a cenotaph at the site of the 1985 JAL jumbo jet on Osutaka Ridge in the village of Ueno, Gunma Prefecture, on Aug. 12, 2013, the 28th anniversary of the accident. All but four of the 524 passengers and crew on board were killed when the Boeing 747 flying from Tokyo to Osaka crashed. It was the worst single-aircraft accident ever. (Pool photo)

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Youths from Israel, Palestinian areas

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) receives a message from the representatives of youths from Israel and Palestinian areas who visited his office in Tokyo on Aug. 12, 2013.

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Japan GDP up in April-June

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe answers a reporter's question in Tokyo on Aug. 12, 2013, after the country's gross domestic product data for the second quarter of 2013 was released the same day. GDP grew an annualized real 2.6 percent in the three months through June.

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Osprey transport to Okinawa

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe answers a reporter's question in Tokyo on Aug. 12, 2013. The U.S. military the same day resumed the delivery of MV-22 Osprey aircraft to the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, for deployment. Abe pledged to make every possible effort to relieve the burden on Okinawa.

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Osprey transport to Okinawa

GINOWAN, Japan - Opponents of additional deployment of MV-22 Osprey aircraft stage a sit-in in front of a gate at the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Aug. 12, 2013. The U.S. military the same day resumed transport of Ospreys to the airbase from the Iwakuni base after a fatal helicopter crash a week ago forced it to postpone the deployment of the tilt-rotor aircraft amid safety concerns about military operations.

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Osprey transport to Okinawa

GINOWAN, Japan - MV-22 Osprey aircraft head for the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Aug. 12, 2013 as the U.S. military resumed transport of Ospreys from the Iwakuni base after a fatal helicopter crash a week ago forced it to postpone the additional deployment of the tilt-rotor aircraft amid safety concerns about military operations.

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28th anniversary of JAL jet crash

UENO, Japan - Relatives of victims of the 1985 Japan Airlines jumbo jet crash pay their respects at the memorial monument at the crash site called Osutaka Ridge in the village of Ueno, Gunma Prefecture, on Aug. 12, 2013, the 28th anniversary of the accident. All but four of the 524 passengers and crew on board were killed when the Boeing 747 flying from Tokyo to Osaka crashed. It was the worst single-aircraft accident ever.

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Youths from Israel, Palestinian areas

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to youths from Israel and Palestinian areas who visited his office in Tokyo on Aug. 12, 2013.

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28th anniversary of JAL jet crash

UENO, Japan - Children pray after tolling a bell for the souls of the victims of the 1985 Japan Airlines jumbo jet at the crash site called Osutaka Ridge in the village of Ueno, Gunma Prefecture, on Aug. 12, 2013, the 28th anniversary of the accident. All but four of the 524 passengers and crew on board were killed when the Boeing 747 flying from Tokyo to Osaka crashed. It was the worst single-aircraft accident ever.

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Osprey transport to Okinawa

GINOWAN, Japan - Photo shows MV-22 Osprey aircraft after landing at the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Aug. 12, 2013. The U.S. military resumed transport of Ospreys from the Iwakuni base after a fatal helicopter crash a week ago forced it to postpone the additional deployment of the tilt-rotor aircraft amid safety concerns about military operations.

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Osprey transport to Okinawa

GINOWAN, Japan - MV-22 Osprey aircraft head for the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Aug. 12, 2013 as the U.S. military resumed transport of Ospreys from the Iwakuni base after a fatal helicopter crash a week ago forced it to postpone the additional deployment of the tilt-rotor aircraft amid safety concerns about military operations.

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Osprey transport to Okinawa

GINOWAN, Japan - Photo shows MV-22 Osprey aircraft landing at the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Aug. 12, 2013. The U.S. military resumed transport of Ospreys from the Iwakuni base after a fatal helicopter crash a week ago forced it to postpone the additional deployment of the tilt-rotor aircraft amid safety concerns about military operations.

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Osprey transport to Okinawa

GINOWAN, Japan - Opponents of additional deployment of MV-22 Osprey aircraft are removed as they staged a sit-in around the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Aug. 12, 2013. The U.S. military the same day resumed transport of Ospreys to the airbase from the Iwakuni base after a fatal helicopter crash a week ago forced it to postpone the deployment of the tilt-rotor aircraft amid safety concerns about military operations.

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Osprey transport to Okinawa

GINOWAN, Japan - Photo shows MV-22 Osprey aircraft at the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, after flying from the Iwakuni base on Aug. 12, 2013. The U.S. military resumed transport of Ospreys after a fatal helicopter crash a week ago forced it to postpone the additional deployment of the tilt-rotor aircraft amid safety concerns about military operations.

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Osprey transport to Okinawa

GINOWAN, Japan - Photo shows MV-22 Osprey aircraft at the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, after flying from the Iwakuni base on Aug. 12, 2013. The U.S. military resumed transport of Ospreys after a fatal helicopter crash a week ago forced it to postpone the additional deployment of the tilt-rotor aircraft amid safety concerns about military operations.

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Osprey transport to Okinawa

IWAKUNI, Japan - MV-22 Osprey aircraft move to a runway at the U.S. Marine Corps' Iwakuni base in Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, on Aug. 12, 2013. The U.S. military the same day resumed transport of Ospreys to Okinawa after a fatal helicopter crash a week ago forced it to postpone the deployment of the tilt-rotor aircraft amid safety concerns about military operations.

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Japan's April-June GDP grows

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's economic revitalization minister Akira Amari gives a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 12, 2013 on the country's gross domestic product data for the second quarter of 2013, released the same day. GDP grew an annualized real 2.6 percent in the three months through June.

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Osprey transport to Okinawa

GINOWAN, Japan - Demonstrators obstruct the path of a vehicle carrying U.S. military personnel in front of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Aug. 12, 2013, to protest additional deployment of MV-22 Osprey aircraft. The U.S. military the same day resumed transport of Ospreys to the airbase from the Iwakuni base after a fatal helicopter crash a week ago forced it to postpone the deployment of the tilt-rotor aircraft amid safety concerns about military operations.

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Osprey transport to Okinawa

GINOWAN, Japan - Demonstrators obstruct the path of a vehicle carrying U.S. military personnel in front of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Aug. 12, 2013, to protest additional deployment of MV-22 Osprey aircraft. The U.S. military the same day resumed transport of Ospreys to the airbase from the Iwakuni base after a fatal helicopter crash a week ago forced it to postpone the deployment of the tilt-rotor aircraft amid safety concerns about military operations.