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Olympic Village site

TOKYO, Japan - Archive photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 28, 2013, shows the Harumi waterfront area in Tokyo where the Tokyo Olympic Village is scheduled to be built. Building contractors have become more receptive to accepting foreign workers as they experience labor shortages due to increased works for Olympic projects, as well as reconstruction and disaster mitigation after the 2011 quake and tsunami.

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Olympic Village site

TOKYO, Japan - Archive photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 28, 2013, shows the Harumi waterfront area in Tokyo where the Tokyo Olympic Village is scheduled to be built. Building contractors have become more receptive to accepting foreign workers as they experience labor shortages due to increased works for Olympic projects, as well as reconstruction and disaster mitigation after the 2011 quake and tsunami.

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JSDF vocalist serves public by singing

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in Tokyo on Aug. 28, 2013, shows Yukari Miyake, the only vocalist in the 230,000-strong Japan Self-Defense Forces, who has seen her debut CD rise to the top of the classical music charts.

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Japanese, N. Korean children to work for peace through drawings

OSAKA, Japan - Children listen to a teacher reading a picture book about peace written by a Japanese author at Rungra elementary school in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Aug. 28, 2013.

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Athletes' village for 2020 Olympics

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 28, 2013 shows Harumi pier on Tokyo Bay, where the athletes' village for the 2020 Summer Olympics is planned. The Rainbow Bridge can be seen in the background.

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Athletes' village for 2020 Olympics

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 28, 2013 shows the Harumi district in Tokyo's Chuo Ward, where the athletes' village for the 2020 Summer Olympics is planned.

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Common seals in Hokkaido

SAPPORO, Japan - Fishermen pull in a net in the Pacific Ocean about 1.5 kilometers off Cape Erimo in Hokkaido on Aug. 28, 2013, after the season for catching autumn salmon with fixed nets began.

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Common seals in Hokkaido

SAPPORO, Japan - Photo shows salmon caught at a port in Cape Erimo in Hokkaido on Aug. 28, 2013. Some of the fish have bites apparently made by common seals.

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World judo championships

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Rafaela Silva of Brazil reacts after winning gold in the women's 57-kilogram class at the world judo championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Aug. 28, 2013.

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Ono wins judo's 73-kg gold

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Japan's Shohei Ono (R) beats London Olympic bronze medalist Ugo Legrand of France with a hane-goshi for ippon in the 73-kilogram final of the judo world championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Aug. 28, 2013.

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Syria in tensions

DAMASCUS, Syria - Photo shows a military checkpoint on a road leading to the Ghouta area in the suburbs of Damascus, Syria, on Aug. 28, 2013. Chemical attacks are believed to have taken place in the Ghouta area on Aug. 21, 2013.

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Syria in tensions

DAMASCUS, Syria - Photo shows Abbasiyyin Square near the Ghouta area in the suburbs of Damascus, Syria, on Aug. 28, 2013. Chemical attacks are believed to have taken place in the Ghouta area on Aug. 21, 2013.

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Obama speech

WASHINGTON, United States - People wait for remarks by U.S. President Barack Obama during the Let Freedom Ring commemoration event at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on Aug. 28, 2013.

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Syria amid tensions

DAMASCUS, Syria - Photo shows shoppers at a market near the Umayyad Mosque in the old city of Damascus on Aug. 28, 2013. Tensions have mounted over an imminent U.S. attack following alleged chemical weapons use by the administration of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

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Syria amid tensions

DAMASCUS, Syria - Photo shows shoppers at a market in the old city of Damascus on Aug. 28, 2013. Tensions have mounted over an imminent U.S. attack following alleged chemical weapons use by the administration of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

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Syria amid tensions

DAMASCUS, Syria - Shoppers buy spice at a market in the old city of Damascus on Aug. 28, 2013. Tensions have mounted over an imminent U.S. attack following alleged chemical weapons use by the administration of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

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Ono wins judo's 73-kg gold

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Japan's Shohei Ono (C) stands on the podium with the gold medal after beating London Olympic bronze medalist Ugo Legrand (L) of France with a hane-goshi for ippon in the 73-kilogram final of the judo world championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Aug. 28, 2013. At right is Dirk Van Tichelt of Belgium who shared bronze.

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Ono wins judo's 73-kg gold

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Japan's Shohei Ono (R) beats London Olympic bronze medalist Ugo Legrand of France with a hane-goshi for ippon in the 73-kilogram final of the judo world championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Aug. 28, 2013.

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Ono wins judo's 73-kg gold

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Japan's Shohei Ono (R) beats London Olympic bronze medalist Ugo Legrand of France with a hane-goshi for ippon in the 73-kilogram final of the judo world championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Aug. 28, 2013.

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Ono wins judo's 73-kg gold

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Japan's Shohei Ono (R) beats London Olympic bronze medalist Ugo Legrand of France with a hane-goshi for ippon in the 73-kilogram final of the judo world championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Aug. 28, 2013.

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Ono wins judo's 73-kg gold

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Japan's Shohei Ono holds the gold medal after beating London Olympic bronze medalist Ugo Legrand of France with a hane-goshi for ippon in the 73-kilogram final of the judo world championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Aug. 28, 2013.

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Abe in Qatar

DOHA, Qatar - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a press conference in Doha, Qatar, on Aug. 28, 2013.

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Abe in Qatar

DOHA, Qatar - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a press conference in Doha, Qatar, on Aug. 28, 2013.

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Abe in Qatar

DOHA, Qatar - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) and Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Abdullah Bin Nasser Bin Khalifa Al Thani (R) enter the prime minister's office in Doha on Aug. 28, 2013.

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ASEAN defense ministers' meeting

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei - Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera (facing) and Chinese Defense Minister Chang Wanquan (R) have a brief conversation in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei, on Aug. 28, 2013, at a dinner ahead of a meeting of defense ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and other countries.

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Protest against TEPCO

TOKYO, Japan - Demonstrators protest in front of the head office in Tokyo of Tokyo Electric Power Co. on the night of Aug. 28, 2013, against the leakage of radioactive water at the company's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture.

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Abe in Qatar

DOHA, Qatar - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (far L) and Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Abdullah Bin Nasser Bin Khalifa Al Thani (2nd from R) hold talks in Doha on Aug. 28, 2013. (Pool photo)

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Robert King

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Robert King, U.S. special envoy for North Korean human rights issues, at the Cabinet Office in Tokyo on Aug. 28, 2013.

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Protest against TEPCO

TOKYO, Japan - Demonstrators protest in front of the head office in Tokyo of Tokyo Electric Power Co. on the night of Aug. 28, 2013, against the leakage of radioactive water at the company's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture.

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Robert King in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Keiji Furuya (L), a Cabinet minister in charge of the issue of North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals in the 1970s and 1980s, shakes hands with Robert King, U.S. special envoy for North Korean human rights issues, ahead of their talks at the Cabinet Office in Tokyo on Aug. 28, 2013.

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Poet To dies at 83

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in April 2003 shows Kazuko To, a prize-winning poet and former leprosy sufferer, who died of acute respiratory failure at a sanatorium in Kagawa Prefecture on Aug. 28, 2013, at age 83. To, who developed leprosy in 1942, was isolated at the sanatorium even from family members and friends at the age of 14. She engaged in poetry writing from her late 20s and her poems written amid discrimination against leprosy sufferers were highly acclaimed.

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Largest Uniqlo store in the world to open in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, China - Senior officials of Japan's Fast Retailing Co. pose for photos during a press conference in Shanghai on Aug. 28, 2013. The company said the same day it will open Uniqlo Shanghai, the largest flagship store of the casual clothing chain in the world with a sales floor of around 8,000 square meters, on Sept. 30.

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Michael Kirby

TOKYO, Japan - Michael Kirby, a retired Australian judge who heads a U.N. commission investigating human rights violations in North Korea, speaks before a group of Japanese lawmakers in Tokyo on Aug. 28, 2013. Kirby and two other members of the commission are in Japan for briefings on the unresolved cases of Japanese nationals abducted by Pyongyang in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Fukushima governor, NRA chief

TOKYO, Japan - Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato (R) and Shunichi Tanaka, chairman of the Nuclear Regulation Authority, bow as they meet in Tokyo on Aug. 28, 2013. The governor of the prefecture hosting the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant asked the NRA chief to improve the handling of the nuclear crisis at the power plant, as the NRA raised its assessment of the severity of a recent toxic water leak at the complex to level 3 on an eight-point international scale the same day.

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BOJ deputy chief Iwata

KYOTO, Japan - Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Kikuo Iwata gives a speech in Kyoto, western Japan, on Aug. 28, 2013. Iwata said clear improvements in economic activity induced by the central bank's ultra monetary easing may be evident by year-end.

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BOJ deputy chief Iwata

KYOTO, Japan - Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Kikuo Iwata gives a speech in Kyoto, western Japan, on Aug. 28, 2013. Iwata said clear improvements in economic activity induced by the central bank's ultra monetary easing may be evident by year-end.

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Abe in Qatar

DOHA, Qatar - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) and Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Abdullah Bin Nasser Bin Khalifa Al Thani (L) review Qatari troops in Doha on Aug. 28, 2013.

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U.N. panel on N. Korean human rights visits Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Keiji Furuya (C), state minister in charge of the issue of North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals, speaks in Tokyo on Aug. 28, 2013, during a briefing on the issue for members of a U.N. commission investigating human rights violations in North Korea. To the right is Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida.

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Peace Palace

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Photo taken Aug. 28, 2013, shows the Peace Palace in The Hague, the Netherlands. The building, which houses the International Court of Justice and other institutions, marked the 100th anniversary of its completion the same day.

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U.N. panel on N. Korean human rights visits Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Michael Kirby of Australia (2nd from L), chairman of a U.N. commission investigating human rights violations in North Korea, and the two other panel members hold talks with Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (far R) on unresolved cases of Japanese nationals abducted by Pyongyang, at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Aug. 28, 2013.

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Japanese, U.S. defense chiefs

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei - Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera (R) and U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel are seen ahead of their talks in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei, on Aug. 28, 2013. They held the talks on the sidelines of a regional security meeting.

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U.N. panel on N. Korean human rights visits Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Michael Kirby of Australia (C), chairman of a U.N. commission investigating human rights violations in North Korea, poses for photos with Keiji Furuya (L), state minister in charge of the issue of North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals, and Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, prior to a briefing for the panel members on unresolved cases of Japanese nationals abducted by Pyongyang in Tokyo on Aug. 28, 2013.

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U.N. panel on N. Korean human rights visits Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (L) and Michael Kirby of Australia, chairman of a U.N. commission investigating human rights violations in North Korea, shake hands at their talks on unresolved cases of Japanese nationals abducted by Pyongyang, at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Aug. 28, 2013.

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Myanmar turns border with Thailand into gateway for foreign tourists

YANGON, Myanmar - Photo taken in June 2013 shows Myanmar's border checkpoint with Thailand, connecting Myawady in eastern Myanmar with Mae Sot in northwestern Thailand. Starting 8 a.m. on Aug. 28, 2013, foreign nationals holding valid passports with valid entry visas issued by Myanmar will be allowed to enter and exit the country through the border checkpoints at Tachileik-Mae Sai, Myawady-Mae Sot, Kawthoung-Ranong and Htee Khee-Punaron, Myanmar immigration officials said Aug. 27.

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Cosmo Oil to close Sakaide refinery

OSAKA, Japan - An Aug. 28, 2012, photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Cosmo Oil Co.'s oil refinery in Sakaide, Kagawa Prefecture. The company said the same day it will close the plant in July 2013 amid weakening domestic demand for oil.

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Cosmo Oil to close Sakaide refinery

OSAKA, Japan - An Aug. 28, 2012, photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Cosmo Oil Co.'s oil refinery in Sakaide, Kagawa Prefecture. The company said the same day it will close the plant in July 2013 amid weakening domestic demand for oil.