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Japanese wins World Sudoku Championship in London

TOKYO, Japan - The UK Puzzle Association announces on Aug. 20, 2014, that Kota Morinishi (R), a Tokyo University Graduate School student, won the 2014 World Sudoku Championship held in London, Britain, earlier this month. The 25-year-old Japanese also won the 2012 International Sudoku Tournament in Beijing as shown in this file photo taken in May that year.

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Police conduct autopsy on journalist killed in Syria

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in May 2004 shows Mika Yamamoto, a Japanese journalist killed in Syria on Aug. 20, 2012, while covering the civil war there. Yamamoto, 45, an award-winning journalist, was shot dead in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo during a clash believed to have been between rebels and forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad's regime.

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Relatives see body of Japanese journalist slain in Syria

ISTANBUL, Turkey - Photo taken Aug. 23, 2012, shows a mosque in Istanbul, where relatives of slain Japanese journalist Mika Yamamoto saw her body the same say. Yamamoto was killed on Aug. 20, 2012, in Aleppo, northern Syria, while covering the civil war in the country.

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Relatives see body of Japanese journalist slain in Syria

ISTANBUL, Turkey - Kazutaka Sato, the common-law husband of Japanese journalist Mika Yamamoto, who was slain on Aug. 20, 2012, in Aleppo, northern Syria, while covering the civil war in the country, speaks at a hotel in Istanbul on Aug. 23, 2012. Relatives of Yamamoto saw her body earlier on Aug. 23 in Istanbul, after it was airlifted from Kilis in southern Turkey near the border with Syria.

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Citizen Holdings President Tokura

TOKYO, Japan - Toshio Tokura, president of Citizen Holdings Co., is interviewed by Kyodo News in Tokyo on Aug. 20, 2012. Tokura said the company plans to acquire a luxury Swiss watch brand within three years, a move aimed at enhancing its competitive edge in key markets including China.

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N. Korea showcases development at Rason economic zone

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Photo taken Aug. 20, 2012, shows the No. 3 Pier at Rajin Port in the special economic zone of Rason in the northeast of North Korea. North Korea gave Kyodo News a tour of the port, where construction projects are under way with Chinese and Russian help to upgrade port facilities.

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Journalist Yamamoto dead in Syrian clash

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in November 2005 shows Mika Yamamoto, an award-winning veteran Japanese journalist, speaking about the significance of female journalists covering war, during a symposium in Tokyo. Yamamoto, 45, while covering the civil war in Syria, died Aug. 20, 2012, while accompanying the rebel Free Syrian Army, the Japanese government said Aug. 21. She was killed in Aleppo in northern Syria, during a clash between rebels and forces loyal to the Syrian government.

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Journalist Yamamoto dead in Syrian clash

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Mika Yamamoto, an award-winning veteran Japanese journalist. Yamamoto, 45, while covering the civil war in Syria, died Aug. 20, 2012, while accompanying the rebel Free Syrian Army, the Japanese government said Aug. 21. She was killed in Aleppo in northern Syria, during a clash between rebels and forces loyal to the Syrian government.

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Japanese students from quake-hit areas wind up U.S. trip

WASHINGTON, United States - Japanese students from Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures in northeastern Japan that were badly hit by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster present a report during a gathering in Washington on Aug. 20, 2012, wrapping a mini-tour of the United States.

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Kagawa makes Premier League debut

LIVERPOOL, Britain - Shinji Kagawa (L) makes his Premier League debut with Manchester United during the first half of a match against Everton in Liverpool, England, on Aug. 20, 2012. To the right is teammate Wayne Rooney. United lost 1-0.

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Personal effects of Korean victims of Japan's forced labor

SEOUL, South Korea - Photo taken in Seoul on Aug. 20, 2012, shows the personal effects of victims of forced mobilization by Japanese authorities in Korea while the peninsula was under Japanese rule between 1910 and 1945, gathered and unveiled by the Commission on Verification and Support for the Victims of Forced Mobilization under Japanese Colonialism in Korea, a South Korean government agency. The agency said the same day around 226,000 people had registered as victims of the forced mobilization since a fact-finding investigation began in 2005.

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Tokyo Tower in Olympic colors

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Aug. 20, 2012, from the observatory of the Roppongi Hills commercial complex in Tokyo's Minato Ward shows Tokyo Tower lit in Olympic colors, with illuminations in blue, green, red and yellow, and the unilluminated part at the top representing black. The tower was lit up in the colors to commemorate a parade by Japanese Olympic athletes held the same day in the Ginza district of the Japanese capital.

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International trade fair in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - An international trade fair opens in the special economic zone of Rason, northeastern North Korea, on Aug. 20, 2012.

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Chinese politician's wife gets suspended death sentence

HEFEI, China - People enter the courthouse in the eastern Chinese city of Hefei on Aug. 20, 2012, to sit in on the trial of Gu Kailai, wife of disgraced Chinese Communist Party boss Bo Xilai. The court sentenced Gu to death with a two-year reprieve for the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood.

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Personal effects of Korean victims of Japan's forced labor

SEOUL, South Korea - Photo taken in Seoul on Aug. 20, 2012, shows the personal effects of victims of forced mobilization by Japanese authorities in Korea while the peninsula was under Japanese rule between 1910 and 1945, gathered and unveiled by the Commission on Verification and Support for the Victims of Forced Mobilization under Japanese Colonialism in Korea, a South Korean government agency. The agency said the same day around 226,000 people had registered as victims of the forced mobilization since a fact-finding investigation began in 2005.

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PM Noda meets Olympic athletes

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (C) poses for a photo with Homare Sawa (L), a star of Japan's women's soccer team, and three-time champion wrestler Saori Yoshida, as the government honors Japan's Olympic athletes at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Aug. 20, 2012. (Pool photo)

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Chinese politician's wife gets suspended death sentence

HEFEI, China - Police officers march in front of the courthouse in the eastern Chinese city of Hefei on Aug. 20, 2012. The court sentenced Gu Kailai, wife of disgraced Chinese Communist Party boss Bo Xilai, the same day to death with a two-year reprieve for the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood.

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Japan Olympic medalists parade in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese gymnasts Kohei Uchimura (L) and Kazuhito Tanaka wave during a parade by Olympic athletes in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district on Aug. 20, 2012. Some 500,000 people filled the streets of the district in central Tokyo for the parade celebrating Japan's London 2012 Olympians, whose 38-medal haul was the country's largest total from a single Olympic Games. (Pool photo)

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Park elected S. Korea ruling party presidential candidate

SEOUL, South Korea - Park Geun Hye, a senior lawmaker of South Korea's ruling Saenuri Party and a daughter of former President Park Chung Hee, smiles at a party convention held on the outskirts of Seoul on Aug. 20, 2012, after being chosen as the party's candidate for the Dec. 19 presidential election.

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Park elected S. Korean ruling party presidential candidate

SEOUL, South Korea - Park Geun Hye, a senior lawmaker of South Korea's ruling Saenuri Party and a daughter of former President Park Chung Hee, delivers a speech at a party convention held on the outskirts of Seoul on Aug. 20, 2012, after being chosen as the party's candidate for the Dec. 19 presidential election.

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Crown prince's family

NASUSHIOBARA, Japan - Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito (L), his wife Crown Princess Masako (R) and their 10-year-old daughter Princess Aiko wave at a crowd upon their arrival at JR Nasushiobara station in Tochigi Prefecture on Aug. 20, 2012. The family will spend about two weeks at a local imperial villa, where they vacation every summer. (Pool photo)

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Park elected S. Korea ruling party presidential candidate

SEOUL, South Korea - Park Geun Hye, a senior lawmaker of South Korea's ruling Saenuri Party and a daughter of former President Park Chung Hee, smiles at a party convention held on the outskirts of Seoul on Aug. 20, 2012, after being chosen as the party's candidate for the Dec. 19 presidential election.

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Toyota's remodeled Auris

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. unveils its fully remodeled Auris five-door compact car in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Aug. 20, 2012.

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Crown prince's family

NASUSHIOBARA, Japan - Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito (L), his wife Crown Princess Masako (R) and their 10-year-old daughter Princess Aiko wave at a crowd upon their arrival at JR Nasushiobara station in Tochigi Prefecture on Aug. 20, 2012. The family will spend about two weeks at a local imperial villa, where they vacation every summer. (Pool photo)

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Police question Japanese for landing on Senkakus

ISHIGAKI, Japan - A group of people leave a police station on Ishigaki Island, Okinawa Prefecture, on Aug. 20, 2012. The local police questioned 10 Japanese including local assembly members for landing without authorization on Uotsuri Island, the largest of a chain of Japanese-controlled islets in the East China Sea at the center of a territorial row with China.

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Toyota's remodeled Auris

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. unveils its fully remodeled Auris five-door compact car in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Aug. 20, 2012.

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Japan Olympic medalists parade in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Some 500,000 people fill the streets of the Ginza district of central Tokyo on Aug. 20, 2012, for a parade celebrating Japan's London 2012 Olympians, whose 38-medal haul was the country's largest total from a single Olympic Games. (Pool photo)

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Japan Olympic medalists parade in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Photo from a helicopter shows some 500,000 people filling the streets of the Ginza district of central Tokyo on Aug. 20, 2012, for a parade celebrating Japan's London 2012 Olympians, whose 38-medal haul was the country's largest total from a single Olympic Games. (Pool photo)

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Okinawa urges discipline by U.S. military

NAHA, Japan - Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima (R) and Alfred Magleby, the new U.S. consul general in the prefecture, meet at the Okinawa prefectural hall in Naha on Aug. 20, 2012. The governor expressed his strong discontent over a U.S. Marine's recent alleged assault of a local woman, and urged discipline within the U.S. military forces.

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Police question 10 Japanese for landing on disputed Senkakus

ISHIGAKI, Japan - A group of people enter a police station on Ishigaki Island, Okinawa Prefecture, on Aug. 20, 2012. The local police questioned 10 Japanese including local assembly members for landing without authorization on Uotsuri Island, the largest of a chain of Japanese-controlled islets in the East China Sea at the center of a territorial row with China.

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Chinese politician's wife gets suspended death sentence

HEFEI, China - Police officers stand guard at the courthouse in the eastern Chinese city of Hefei on Aug. 20, 2012. The court sentenced Gu Kailai, wife of disgraced Chinese Communist Party boss Bo Xilai, the same day to death with a two-year reprieve for the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood.

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Police question 10 Japanese for landing on disputed Senkakus

ISHIGAKI, Japan - A group of people head to a police station on Ishigaki Island, Okinawa Prefecture, on Aug. 20, 2012. The local police questioned 10 Japanese including local assembly members for landing without authorization on Uotsuri Island, the largest of a chain of Japanese-controlled islets in the East China Sea at the center of a territorial row with China.

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Chinese politician's wife gets suspended death sentence

HEFEI, China - Police officers stand guard at the courthouse in the eastern Chinese city of Hefei on Aug. 20, 2012. The court sentenced Gu Kailai, wife of disgraced Chinese Communist Party boss Bo Xilai, the same day to death with a two-year reprieve for the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood.

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Chinese politician's wife gets suspended death sentence

HEFEI, China - Police officers stand guard at the courthouse in the eastern Chinese city of Hefei on Aug. 20, 2012. The court sentenced Gu Kailai, wife of disgraced Chinese Communist Party boss Bo Xilai, the same day to death with a two-year reprieve for the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood.

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Shiseido to sell 1 million yen skin cream

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a special version of La Creme, an ultrarich skin cream in a crystal container to be sold by Shiseido Co. for 1.05 million yen ($13,200) apiece to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the launch of its top-end cosmetics line, Cle de peau BEAUTE. The Japanese cosmetics producer will accept reservations for only three units of the luxury cream between Aug. 30 and Sept. 20, 2012.

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Tokyo Disneyland to open new Goofy attraction

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows an image of Tokyo Disneyland's new attraction called Goofy's Paint and Play House. The theme park near Tokyo said on Feb. 20, 2012, that it will open the attraction on Aug. 24, 2012.