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Xinjiang aims for 12 percent GDP growth

URUMQI, China - Governor of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Nur Bekri speaks during an interview on Aug. 19, 2010, in Urumqi, the capital of China's Xinjiang. Nur said the region will aim for 12 percent economic growth in the five-year period starting in 2011, adding that economic development is the foundation to resolve all issues in the region.

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Kaminoseki promotes nuclear plant despite Fukushima crisis

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken on Aug. 19, 2011, shows Nagashima Island (front), the planned site for Chubu Electric Power Co.'s Kaminoseki Nuclear Power Station, in the town of Kaminoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, with Iwaishima Island visible in the distance.

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U.S. Vice Pres. Biden in China

BEIJING, China - Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden shake hands ahead of their talks at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Aug. 19, 2011. (Pool photo)

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Ban lifted on Miyagi cattle shipments

KURIHARA, Japan - Beef cattle are pictured at a farm in Kurihara, Miyagi Prefecture, on Aug. 19, 2011. The government said the same day a ban on cattle shipments from the prefecture had been lifted.

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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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U.S. Vice Pres. Biden in China

BEIJING, China - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (R) and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden are pictured during their talks in Beijing on Aug. 19, 2011. (Pool photo)

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Matsui records 2,600th hit

OAKLAND, United States - Oakland Athletics designated hitter Hideki Matsui singles during the fifth inning of a game against the Toronto Blue Jays in Oakland, California, on Aug. 19, 2011. It was his 2,600th hit in his Japanese professional baseball and U.S. major league career.

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U.S. Vice Pres. Biden in China

BEIJING, China - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (L) shakes hands with China's Vice President Xi Jinping ahead of a roundtable meeting with U.S. and Chinese business leaders in Beijing on Aug. 19, 2011. (Pool photo)

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Dollar plunges to record low

TOKYO, Japan - An electronic signboard in Higashishimbashi, Tokyo, shows the dollar hitting 75.95 yen, its lowest level since the end of World War II, during New York trading on Aug. 19, 2011.

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Nadeshiko Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Members of Women's World Cup champions Japan, nicknamed ''Nadeshiko Japan,'' (from L to R) Karina Maruyama, Nahomi Kawasumi and Homare Sawa, celebrate the team's 3-2 victory over a Nadeshiko League select team at Tokyo's National Stadium on Aug. 19, 2011.

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U.S. Vice Pres. Biden in China

BEIJING, China - China's Vice President Xi Jinping (R) makes a speech at a roundtable meeting with U.S. and Chinese business leaders in Beijing on Aug. 19, 2011. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is seated next to him. (Pool photo)

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Goalkeeper Kawashima protests about 'Fukushima' chants

LIERSE, Belgium - Japanese goalkeeper Eiji Kawashima (front L) protests to the referee (front R) after Germinal supporters chant ''Fukushima! Fukushima!'' at the Lierse custodian, in apparent reference to the nuclear crisis in Japan, during a 1-1 draw in Lierse, Belgium, on Aug. 19, 2011. Kawashima said later, ''To use Fukushima the way they did is no joke.''

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U.S. Vice Pres. Biden in China

BEIJING, China - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (L) and China's Vice President Xi Jinping are pictured at a roundtable meeting with U.S. and Chinese business leaders in Beijing on Aug. 19, 2011. (Pool photo)

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Search continues in disaster-hit Rikuzentakata

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Police officers from Okayama and Tottori prefectures, western Japan, search for the remains of people who have remained unaccounted for since the March 11 tsunami, in Osabe fishing port in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture in northeastern Japan, on Aug. 19, 2011. Over 4,500 people are still counted as missing more than five months after the disaster. ''We want to find them, even if it might be a bone fragment,'' said a leader of the police unit taking part in the search.

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U.S. Vice Pres. Biden in China

BEIJING, China - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (R) shakes hands with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden ahead of their talks in Beijing on Aug. 19, 2011. (Pool photo)

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Japan's ban on beef shipments

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano takes questions during a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Aug. 19, 2011. Edano, Japan's top government spokesman, said a ban on beef shipments from Miyagi Prefecture had been partially lifted, starting the same day as planned. But the government decided to defer lifting a ban on beef shipments from Fukushima Prefecture as beef contaminated with an excessive level of radioactive cesium was reported to have been found there.

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Search continues in disaster-hit Rikuzentakata

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Police officers from Okayama and Tottori prefectures, western Japan, search for the remains of people who have remained unaccounted for since the March 11 tsunami, in Osabe fishing port in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture in northeastern Japan, on Aug. 19, 2011. Over 4,500 people are still counted as missing more than five months after the disaster. ''We want to find them, even if it might be a bone fragment,'' said a leader of the police unit taking part in the search.

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LED bulbs to quake-hit railways

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Tama, the famous calico cat also known as ''stationmaster,'' is pictured with light-emitting diode bulbs that features her in Kinokawa, Wakayama Prefecture, on Aug. 19, 2011. Wakayama Electric Railway Co. said the same day that it will donate 610 ''Tama bulbs'' to 10 northeastern Japan railway operators hit by the March quake and tsunami.

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Suu Kyi heads to capital

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi. Suu Kyi departed Yangon on Aug. 19, 2011, to attend a government-organized workshop on economic reform in the capital Naypyitaw.