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Cup of new Starbucks coffee costs 1,998 yen

TOKYO, Japan - Starbucks Coffee Japan Ltd. unveils the Panama Auromar Geisha coffee brand in Tokyo ahead of its launch on Sept. 17, 2014. A cup of the coffee sells for 1,998 yen ($18.7). It will also sell a 250-gram pack of the same coffee for 10,800 yen, as shown in the file photo taken on Aug. 12.

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Event held to commemorate victims of 2011 disaster

MINAMISOMA, Japan - Takayuki Ueno (L) clears candles after a fireworks event he arranged in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Aug. 17, 2014, to commemorate victims of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Ueno lost his parents and two children in the disaster that hit the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku.

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Event held to commemorate victims of 2011 disaster

MINAMISOMA, Japan - People watch fireworks near the home of Takayuki Ueno in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Aug. 17, 2014. Ueno, who lost his parents and two children in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that hit the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku, arranged the event to commemorate victims of the disaster.

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Woman hunter runs guesthouse serving game meat

TOKYO, Japan - Satoko Umeno poses at her guesthouse where she hunts for and serves game to visitors in the suburbs of Tottori in western Japan in this file photo taken on Aug. 17, 2014. She moved to Tottori four years ago to become the region's first woman hunter.

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New bullet train station in Niigata Pref.

NIIGATA, Japan - Joetsu-myoko station in Joetsu, Niigata Prefecture, northeastern Japan, shown in this photo taken on Aug. 17, 2014, is one of the new station built for the Hokuriku Shinkansen bullet train line to be operated from March 14, 2015.

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Darvish life-size poster

ARLINGTON, United States - The Texas Rangers give away life-size posters of pitcher Yu Darvish, who is 196-centimeter tall, to the first 10,000 children aged 13 and younger, at a game against the Los Angeles Angels in Arlington, Texas, on Aug. 17, 2014.

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People gather at shooting site in Ferguson, Mo.

FERGUSON, United States - People gather on Aug. 17, 2014, at the site where unarmed African American teenager Michael Brown was recently shot to death by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.

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Residents occupy intersection in Ferguson, Mo.

FERGUSON, United States - A number of African American residents occupy an intersection on Aug. 17, 2014, on a main street in Ferguson, Missouri, after unarmed African American teenager Michael Brown was shot to death by a police officer.

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Residents march to protest Michael Brown's death

FERGUSON, United States - African American residents march on Aug. 17, 2014, in Ferguson, Missouri, to protest the recent fatal shooting of unarmed African American teenager Michael Brown by a police officer.

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Southampton defender Yoshida in action against Liverpool

LIVERPOOL, England - Japanese defender Maya Yoshida (L) of English Premier League club Southampton prepares to make a pass during the team's 2-1 away loss to Liverpool in Liverpool, England, on Aug. 17, 2014.

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Tens of thousands march in H.K.

HONG KONG, China - Pro-Beijing groups take to the street in Hong Kong, China, on Aug. 17, 2014, in a Beijing-backed campaign opposing a plan by pro-democracy advocates to press for real democracy by paralyzing the central business district.

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Tens of thousands march in H.K.

HONG KONG, China - Pro-Beijing groups take to the street in Hong Kong, China, on Aug. 17, 2014, in a Beijing-backed campaign opposing a plan by pro-democracy advocates to press for real democracy by paralyzing the central business district.

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Fashion show held to promote indigo-dyed clothing

TOKUSHIMA, Japan - A model takes part in a fashion show held in Tokushima, western Japan, on Aug. 17, 2014, to promote indigo-dyed clothing, a regional specialty, to young women.

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Gov't begins seabed survey for U.S. Futenma base transfer

NAGO, Japan - People lodge a protest on Aug. 17, 2014, in front of the gate of the U.S. Marines' Camp Schwab in Nago, Okinawa, as the Japanese government started a seabed survey for landfill work to relocate the U.S. Futenma airbase there.

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Summer vacationers return to metropolitan area

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Aug. 17, 2014, shows a platform for shinkansen bullet trains at JR Tokyo Station in central Tokyo, crowded with people returning to the metropolitan area after spending their Bon summer holidays elsewhere.

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Rig for drilling survey stands off coast of Henoko, Okinawa

NAGO, Japan - A rig stands on Aug. 17, 2014, off the coast of the Henoko district in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, southwestern Japan, for use in a drilling survey as part of work for the planned relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma air base in Ginowan, southern Okinawa.

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Stone monument describing tsunami terror unveiled

MORIOKA, Japan - A stone monument with an engraving of a poem describing the terror of a tsunami is unveiled in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, on Aug. 17, 2014. Poet Yoshi Tabata, standing by the monument, experienced the two devastating tsunami that hit the northeastern Japan region in 1933 and 2011.

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Central banker to run in Fukushima gubernatorial election

TOKYO, Japan - Takeshi Hachimura, a Bank of Japan official, meets with the press on Aug. 17, 2014, in the city of Fukushima where he announced he will run in October's Fukushima gubernatorial election, the first leadership race since the March 2011 nuclear disaster there. Hachimura, 55, served as the central bank's Fukushima branch manager between 2005 and 2008 and the Reconstruction Agency's policy adviser after the disaster.

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Exhibit of Princess Hisako's bird photos begins in Izumo

MATSUE, Japan - Princess Hisako of Japan (R), a bird watching enthusiast, speaks to visitors at an exhibition of her bird photos that opens in Izumo, Shimane Prefecture, on Aug. 17, 2014.

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Princess Hisako explains sweet boxes at photo exhibit

MATSUE, Japan - Princess Hisako of Japan (L) gives her account for sweet boxes given to guests on special occasion at an exhibition of her bird photos that opens in Izumo, Shimane Prefecture, on Aug. 17, 2014. Her daughter Princess Noriko is engaged to Kunimaro Senge, a senior priest of Izumo-taisha, Japan's major shrine in the western Japanese city.

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Fukuchiyama hit by record rainfall

FUKUCHIYAMA, Japan - Rescue workers transfer an emergency patient in Fukuchiyama, Kyoto Prefecture, on Aug. 17, 2014, as the road there was flooded by record rainfall.

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Fukuchiyama hit by record rainfall

FUKUCHIYAMA, Japan - Self-Defense Force personnel on Aug. 17, 2014, rescue residents in Fukuchiyama, Kyoto Prefecture, which was hit by a record rainfall.

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Gov't begins seabed survey for U.S. Futenma base transfer

NAGO, Japan - Photo taken Aug. 17, 2014, in Nago in Japan's southernmost prefecture of Okinawa shows a seabed survey getting underway for landfill work at the planned relocation site for the U.S. Futenma airbase. The Defense Ministry started the survey work amid protests from local residents opposed to the base transfer.

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Gov't begins seabed survey for U.S. Futenma base transfer

NAGO, Japan - Photo taken Aug. 17, 2014, in Nago in Japan's southernmost prefecture of Okinawa shows a seabed survey getting underway for landfill work at the planned relocation site for the U.S. Futenma airbase. The Defense Ministry started the survey work amid protests from local residents opposed to the base transfer.

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Maltese businessman keeps documents sent by Japan Navy

VALLETTA, Malta - Photo shows Frank Borda, president of a trading house in Malta and resident near the nation's capital Valletta, in July 2014. Among the documents he has kept is one dated Aug. 17, 1917, sent to his grandfather by the Japanese Navy which procured supplies for a fleet dispatched to the Mediterranean Sea in April 1917 during World War I. Borda's great-grandfather and grandfather were ship chandlers.

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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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Letters by Hiroshima governor around 1945 A-bombing found

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken on March 17, 2014, shows four letters written between June and October 1945 by Genshin Takano (1895-1969), the governor of Hiroshima when the United States dropped the atomic bomb on the Japanese city on Aug. 6, 1945. The letters were discovered at the Hiroshima Prefectural Archives.