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Students leave new building of tsunami-hit school

SENDAI, Japan - Students walk home from Nagatoro Elementary School's new building in Watari Town, Miyagi Prefecture, on Aug. 18, 2014. The original building was damaged by the earthquake and tsunami that hit northeastern Japan in March 2011.

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Students leave new building of tsunami-hit school

SENDAI, Japan - Students walk home from Arahama Junior High School's new building in Watari Town, Miyagi Prefecture, on Aug. 18, 2014. The original building was damaged by the earthquake and tsunami that hit the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku in March 2011. Classrooms are located on the second and third floors of the new building.

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Pupils study in new building of tsunami-hit school

SENDAI, Japan - Pupils study in a classroom in Nagatoro Elementary School's new building in Watari Town, Miyagi Prefecture, on Aug. 18, 2014. The original building was damaged by the earthquake and tsunami that hit the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku in March 2011.

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2 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos taken from a Kyodo News helicopter show the Yotsukura beach in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 18, 2011 (top), shortly after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake, with fire engines gathered to douse overheated reactors and spent fuel at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, and the same location on the beach about two and a half years later on Aug. 18, 2013 (bottom), after opening to the public for the summer season for the first time in three years.

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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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Searching for radiation-resistant rice

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Foreign-originated brands of rice are grown in an experimental rice field at the Fukushima Agricultural Technology Center in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, on Aug. 18, 2011. The research agency has been examining around 110 varieties of rice from inside and outside Japan in the search for strains that absorb less radioactive cesium from soil, following the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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Indians' Fukudome vs. White Sox

CHICAGO, United States - Japanese baseball player Kosuke Fukudome of the Cleveland Indians hits a run-scoring triple to the right in the sixth inning of a game against the Chicago White Sox at U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago on Aug. 18, 2011. The center fielder went 3-for-4 in the Indians' 4-2 victory.

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Japan envoy visits Tibet

LHASA, China - Japan's Ambassador to China Uichiro Niwa walks in the square in front of the Potala Palace (in the background) in Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region in China, on Aug. 18, 2011. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Disaster-hit Japanese teenagers in Russian Far East

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Junior and senior high school students from the disaster-hit Japanese prefectures of Iwate and Miyagi pose for group photos after arriving at Vladivostok airport in the Russian Far East on Aug. 18, 2011. Their trip was made possible after Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's wife, Svetlana, proposed that children from areas devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami be invited to Russia.

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Nadeshiko Japan photo exhibition in Washington

WASHINGTON, United States - Japanese Ambassador to the United States Ichiro Fujisaki (L) and Lee Satterfield, U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for professional and cultural exchanges, view a photo exhibition on the women's soccer World Cup final between Japan and the United States at the Japanese Embassy's Japan Information and Culture Center in Washington on Aug. 18, 2011. The exhibition featuring Japan's World Cup victory began the same day and runs through Sept. 30.

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Japan's 'B-grade' gourmet in N.Y.

NEW YORK, United States - Hidehiko Watanabe (R), chairman of Mt. Fuji Yakisoba (fried noodles) Society, and Yuka Ide, winner of the 23rd Miss Fujisan (Mt. Fuji) Grand Prix, attend a press conference in New York on Aug. 18, 2011. A promotion team from the city of Fujinomiya in Shizuoka Prefecture, including Watanabe and Ide, will introduce Mt. Fuji fried noodles in a street fair in New York on Aug. 21. The noodles rose to national fame after being crowned the champion in 2006 and 2007 in the so-called B-grade cuisine competition.

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Japan envoy visits Tibet

LHASA, China - Japan's Ambassador to China Uichiro Niwa visits the Potala Palace in Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region in China, on Aug. 18, 2011. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Indians' Fukudome vs. White Sox

CHICAGO, United States - Cleveland Indians center fielder Kosuke Fukudome rounds second base in the sixth inning of a game against the Chicago White Sox at U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago on Aug. 18, 2011. Fukudome went 3-for-4 in the Indians' 4-2 victory.

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Indians' Fukudome vs. White Sox

CHICAGO, United States - Cleveland Indians center fielder Kosuke Fukudome hits a single in the second inning of a game against the Chicago White Sox at U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago on Aug. 18, 2011. Fukudome went 3-for-4 with an RBI in the Indians' 4-2 victory.

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Japan envoy visits Tibet

LHASA, China - Japan's Ambassador to China Uichiro Niwa (L) shakes hands with Padma Choling, chairman of the government of the Tibet Autonomous Region, in Lhasa, the region's capital, on Aug. 18, 2011. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Protest at Japan's issuance of visa to Thaksin

BANGKOK, Thailand - A group of Thai activists protest in front of the Japanese Embassy in Bangkok on Aug. 18, 2011, voicing dissatisfaction over the Japanese government's issuance of a visa to ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to visit Japan. In a statement, the protesters said they were deeply disappointed over the move since Thaksin is a fugitive from justice, having fled Thailand to avoid a jail term for a corruption conviction.

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Japanese ambassador in Manila visits Muslim rebel camp

COTABATO, Philippines - Japanese Ambassador to the Philippines Toshinao Urabe (C) poses for photos at a vocational training facility for women in Maguindanao Province in the southern island of Mindanao on Aug. 18, 2011. Urabe visited Camp Darapanan, the administrative headquarters of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, the country's largest Muslim rebel group, in the province the same day and held talks with its leader Al Haj Ebrahim Murad.

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Japan envoy in Philippines

COTABATO, Philippines - Japanese Ambassador to the Philippines Toshinao Urabe (L) shakes hands with a senior officer of the International Monitoring Team, which is observing a cease-fire between the Filipino forces and rebels in Cotabato, the Philippines, on Aug. 18, 2011.

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Japanese students present 80,000 signatures for nuke abolition

GENEVA, Switzerland - A group of high school students from Japan pose for photos with Jarmo Sareva (4th from L), deputy secretary general of the Conference on Disarmament, after presenting him with a petition containing around 80,000 signatures calling for the elimination of nuclear weapons, at the United Nations office in Geneva on Aug. 18, 2011.

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Nadeshiko Japan photo exhibition in Washington

WASHINGTON, United States - A photo shows Japanese midfielder Homare Sawa (L in photo) and U.S. forward Abby Wambach posing together, and a soccer ball with their autographs on it are displayed on Aug. 18, 2011 at a photo exhibition at the Japan Information and Culture Center in Washington. The exhibition features the historic victory of the ''Nadeshiko Japan'' women's soccer team in the World Cup final in July. The exhibition began the same day and is scheduled to run through Sep. 30.

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Asahi to buy New Zealand's Independent Liquor

TOKYO, Japan - Naoki Izumiya, president of Asahi Group Holdings Ltd., says during a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 18, 2011, that the Japanese beverage maker will buy Independent Liquor Ltd., a major New Zealand manufacturer and distributor of alcoholic beverages.

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Japan's new nuclear safety agency chief

TOKYO, Japan - New Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency chief Hiroyuki Fukano speaks during his first press conference at the Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry in Tokyo, Aug. 18, 2011.

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Half year after New Zealand quake

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - Flowers are offered at the former site of the collapsed Canterbury TV building in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Aug. 18, 2011, about half a year after the Feb. 22 quake.

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Half year after New Zealand quake

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - A building undergoes demolition in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Aug. 18, 2011, about half a year after the Feb. 22 quake.

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New shipping route over Sea of Japan

SEIRO, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua (2nd from R) attends a tape-cutting ceremony in Seiro, Niigata Prefecture, on Aug. 18, 2011, on the inauguration of a new shipping and trucking route linking Japan's Niigata Prefecture and Huichuan in China's Jilin Province via Russia's Zarubino, all on the Sea of Japan coast.

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ASEAN Maritime Forum

PATTAYA, Thailand - Participants of the 2nd ASEAN Maritime Forum join hands at the meeting's venue in Pattaya, Thailand, on Aug. 18, 2011. Senior officials and technical experts from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations conducted a one-day meeting on maritime security and safety as part of regional efforts to forge a common approach to combat rising maritime challenges, including military tensions in the South China Sea.

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TEPCO power supply-demand ratio indicators

TOKYO, Japan - Displays at JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo show power demand in Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s service areas came to 90 percent of the utility's supply capacity in the afternoon of Aug. 18, 2011. The demand reached 49.36 million kilowatts after 2 p.m. the same day, the largest so far this summer and equal to 90.4 percent of the supply capacity, according to preliminary data released by the company. Demand for electricity grew as high temperatures increased the use of air conditioners, the utility, known as TEPCO, said.

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Nadeshiko Japan gets gov't honor

TOKYO, Japan - The Japanese women's national soccer team captain, Homare Sawa (L), receives the People's Honor Award from Prime Minister Naoto Kan (C) at the premier's office in Tokyo on Aug. 18, 2011, for the ''Nadeshiko Japan'' team's victory in the Women's World Cup final in July. On the right is team coach Norio Sasaki.

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Biden in China

BEIJING, China - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (2nd from L) attend a meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing on Aug. 18, 2011. (Pool photo)

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U.S. Vice President Biden visits China

BEIJING, China - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (L) is escorted by his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping during a welcoming ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Aug. 18, 2011. Biden arrived in the capital on the previous day on his first trip to Asia as vice president and is scheduled to meet with Chinese President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao during the six-day visit. (Pool photo)

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Biden in China

BEIJING, China - Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (3rd from L) and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (R) meet in Beijing on Aug. 18, 2011. (Pool photo)

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U.S. Vice President Biden visits China

BEIJING, China - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (3rd from L) attends a welcoming ceremony, escorted by his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping (2nd from L), at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Aug. 18, 2011. Biden arrived in the capital the previous day on his first trip to Asia as vice president and is scheduled to meet with Chinese President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao during his six-day visit. (Pool photo)

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Propeller from kamikaze fighter in Russia

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Photo taken on Aug. 10, 2011, shows a propeller blade from a fighter aircraft of the now-defunct Japanese military exhibited at the Pacific Fleet Museum in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East. The aircraft was shot down during an attempted kamikaze attack on a Soviet oil tanker off Vladivostok port on Aug. 18, 1945, three days after Japan's surrender in World War II.

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Fukushima promotes specialties

TOKYO, Japan - Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato (C) tastes a peach along with two Miss Peach sales promoters at Ota Market in Tokyo, on Aug. 18, 2011. The governor was aiming to demonstrate the safety of farm products in Fukushima Prefecture, which have been suffering from negative consumer attitudes due to the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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Kamikaze attack in Russia after Japan's surrender in WWII

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Margarita Afanasieva in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East on Aug. 11, 2011, talks about a story she heard from her father regarding a Japanese fighter aircraft that was shot down during an attempted kamikaze attack on a Soviet oil tanker off Vladivostok port on Aug. 18, 1945, three days after Japan's surrender in World War II. Her father was an engineer on the tanker.