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Traditional theater built in 1933 reborn in central Japan

KANAZAWA, Japan - The Awazu "Embujo" traditional performing art theater at the Awazu hot-spring resort in Komatsu, Ishikawa Prefecture, is shown in its restored form on Aug. 28, 2014. The theater, built in 1933, was resurrected for the first time in some 70 years this year, helping activate the economy of the central Japan hot spring village facing the Sea of Japan.

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Head of traditional theater eyes closer ties with spectators

KANAZAWA, Japan - Takehiro Yoshida, head of the restored Awazu "Embujo" traditional performing art theater in Komatsu, Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, says on Aug. 28, 2014, that he hopes to see the venue will be a place where performers and spectators can form close ties.

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Quake-damaged sake brewer vows comeback

SENDAI, Japan - Takuya Fujimura, president of Kikuzakari Sake Brewery Co. in Kitakami, Iwate Prefecture in northeastern Japan, shows a bottle of his product "Taxi Driver" in the city on Aug. 28, 2014. The 120-year-old brewery continues business despite having been severely damaged in the March 2011 earthquake.

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New grapes 'Ponta' to become available around 2021

TONDABAYASHI, Japan - Bunches of new grapes initially cultivated by crossing different types of grapes by the Research Institute of Environment, Agriculture and Fisheries, Osaka Prefecture in 1973 is seen in the city of Habikino on Aug. 28, 2014. The grapes, named "Ponta," are expected to be sold around 2021 as the institute has recently applied for variety registration after the regulation for the use of plant growth regulators was eased.

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Inoki meets N. Korean diplomat

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Japanese wrestler-turned-parliamentarian Antonio Inoki (L) holds a meeting with Kang Sok Ju, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, in Pyongyang on Aug. 28, 2014. Inoki, 71, was visiting the country to co-host the "International Pro Wrestling Festival," a rare combat sports extravaganza in the country.

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Nishikori reaches U.S. Open 3rd round

NEW YORK, United States - Japan's Kei Nishikori returns a shot during a match against Spain's Pablo Andujar in the second round of the U.S. Open on Aug. 28, 2014, in New York. World No. 11 Nishikori advanced to the third round as world No. 48 Andujar retired at 4-6, 1-6 ahead of the third set.

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Miyazaki to receive Academy's Honorary Award

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in February 2014 shows Japanese animation director Hayao Miyazaki. The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Aug. 28, 2014, it has picked Miyazaki as one of three recipients of its Honorary Award for the year.

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Nishikori reaches U.S. Open 3rd round

NEW YORK, United States - Japan's Kei Nishikori returns a shot during a match against Spain's Pablo Andujar in the second round of the U.S. Open on Aug. 28, 2014, in New York. World No. 11 Nishikori advanced to the third round as world No. 48 Andujar retired at 4-6, 1-6 ahead of the third set.

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Nishikori reaches U.S. Open 3rd round

NEW YORK, United States - Japan's Kei Nishikori returns a shot during a match against Spain's Pablo Andujar in the second round of the U.S. Open on Aug. 28, 2014, in New York. World No. 11 Nishikori advanced to the third round as world No. 48 Andujar retired at 4-6, 1-6 ahead of the third set.

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Nishikori reaches U.S. Open 3rd round

NEW YORK, United States - Japan's Kei Nishikori returns a shot during a match against Spain's Pablo Andujar in the second round of the U.S. Open on Aug. 28, 2014, in New York. World No. 11 Nishikori advanced to the third round as world No. 48 Andujar retired at 4-6, 1-6 ahead of the third set.

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Inoki meets N. Korean diplomat

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Japanese wrestler-turned-parliamentarian Antonio Inoki (L) shakes hands with Kang Sok Ju, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, in Pyongyang on Aug. 28, 2014. Inoki, 71, was visiting the country to co-host the "International Pro Wrestling Festival," a rare combat sports extravaganza in the country.

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Inoki meets N. Korean diplomat

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Japanese wrestler-turned-parliamentarian Antonio Inoki (L) holds a meeting with Kang Sok Ju, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, in Pyongyang on Aug. 28, 2014. Inoki, 71, was visiting the country to co-host the "International Pro Wrestling Festival," a rare combat sports extravaganza in the country.

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N. Korea not to send cheerleaders to Incheon Asian Games

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in August 2005 shows North Korean cheerleaders at the opening ceremony of the Asian Athletics Championships in Incheon, South Korea. According to South Korea's Yonhap News Agency, North Korea said Aug. 28, 2014, it will not send a cheerleading squad to accompany its athletes to the upcoming Asian Games in Incheon, in a reversal of its earlier decision.

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N. Korea not to send cheerleaders to Incheon Asian Games

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in August 2005 shows North Korean cheerleaders at the opening ceremony of the Asian Athletics Championships in Incheon, South Korea. According to South Korea's Yonhap News Agency, North Korea said Aug. 28, 2014, it will not send a cheerleading squad to accompany its athletes to the upcoming Asian Games in Incheon, in a reversal of its earlier decision.

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Lawmaker arrives in N. Korea to stage martial arts event

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Japanese wrestler-turned-parliamentarian Antonio Inoki meets with reporters at a hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Aug. 28, 2014. Inoki, 71, plans to stage a rare combat sports extravaganza in the country.

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Inoki arrives in N. Korea to stage martial arts event

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Japanese wrestler-turned-parliamentarian Antonio Inoki (2nd from L, front) is greeted by North Korean officials upon his arrival at Pyongyang's international airport on Aug. 28, 2014. Inoki, 71, is scheduled to co-host the "International Pro Wrestling Festival," a rare combat sports extravaganza in the country.

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Lawmaker arrives in N. Korea to stage martial arts event

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Japanese wrestler-turned-parliamentarian Antonio Inoki (3rd from L on front row) shows his enthusiasm at a press conference in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Aug. 28, 2014. Inoki, 71, plans to stage a rare combat sports extravaganza in the country.

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JAL to buy 32 small Mitsubishi jet aircraft

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Airlines Co. President Yoshiharu Ueki (extreme L) announces at a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 28, 2014, that JAL will buy 32 Mitsubishi Regional Jet aircraft to strengthen its domestic service with the first domestically built small aircraft.

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Japan ocean minister speaks to press after APEC meet

BEIJING, China - Ichita Yamamoto, Japan's minister for ocean policy and territorial integrity, speaks to reporters after the end of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum's ocean-related ministerial meeting in China's coastal city of Xiamen on Aug. 28, 2014.

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Museum starts exhibiting 2 rare white groupers in Japan

IZUMO, Japan - The Lake Sinji Nature Museum Gobius in Izumo, Shimane Prefecture, western Japan, starts exhibiting two rare white groupers on Aug. 28, 2014.

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Public invited to test rides on maglev train trial line

TSURU, Japan - Central Japan Railway Co. unveils a plan in Tokyo on Aug. 28, 2014, to invite members of the public to demonstration rides in November and December on a test line of its magnetically levitated train in Tsuru, Yamanashi Prefecture, eastern Japan.

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Worker sprays pesticide in park to fight dengue fever

TOKYO, Japan - A worker sprays pesticide in Tokyo's Yoyogi Park on Aug. 28, 2014, following the discovery of a few people infected with mosquito-borne dengue fever.

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Inoki arrives in N. Korea to stage martial arts event

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Japanese wrestler-turned-parliamentarian Antonio Inoki (R) hugs Chang Ung, a North Korean member of the International Olympic Committee, upon his arrival at Pyongyang's international airport on Aug. 28, 2014. Inoki, 71, is scheduled to co-host the "International Pro Wrestling Festival," a rare combat sports extravaganza in the country, with Chang.

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Police probe guide dog stabbing in Saitama

SAITAMA, Japan - A guide dog, Oscar, waits to assist his 61-year-old blind owner on Aug. 28, 2014, in the city of Saitama, near Tokyo. Oscar was stabbed in July during his owner's commute to work, prompting police to launch an investigation.

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Bogus signatures of pop group 'Momoiro Clover Z' members

CHIBA, Japan - Police display bogus signatures of members of Japanese pop group "Momoiro Clover Z" confiscated from two suspects at a police station in Chiba, east of Tokyo, on Aug. 28, 2014.

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Doctor briefs press on Ebola scare in Liberia

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuyuki Kato of Japan's National Center for Global Health and Medicine briefs reporters in Tokyo on Aug. 28, 2014, about his involvement in the fight against the Ebola virus disease in Liberia. He was dispatched to the western African country in May and August to help establish a center for the treatment of people infected with the virus in the Liberian capital Monrovia.

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2 more people found to have contracted dengue fever in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - A health worker sprays for mosquitoes at Tokyo's Yoyogi Park on Aug. 28, 2014, as two more people were reported the same day to have contracted dengue fever in Japan, one day after the government said it had confirmed the first local infection of the disease in nearly 70 years.

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Lawmaker arrives in N. Korea to stage martial arts event

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Japanese wrestler-turned-parliamentarian Antonio Inoki meets with reporters after arriving at Pyongyang international airport in North Korea on Aug. 28, 2014. Inoki, 71, plans to stage a rare combat sports extravaganza in the country.

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JR Tokai chief speaks about maglev train project

TOKYO, Japan - Koei Tsuge, president of Central Japan Railway Co., known as JR Tokai, meets the press in Tokyo on Aug. 28, 2014, following the firm's application to the government for approval of a plan to begin work on the construction of a 290-km magnetically levitated train line between the capital and Nagoya, central Japan, for completion by 2027.

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JAL to buy 32 advanced regional jets from Mitsubishi

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Airlines Co. President Yoshiharu Ueki (L) shakes hands with Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. Chairman Hideo Egawa in front of a model Mitsubishi Regional Jet on Aug. 28, 2014, in Tokyo, as JAL announced it will buy 32 MRJs to strengthen its domestic services with the first Japanese-built small passenger jet.

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JAL to buy 32 small Mitsubishi jet aircraft

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Airlines Co. President Yoshiharu Ueki (L) and Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. President Hideo Egawa pose at a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 28, 2014, held to announce JAL's decision to buy 32 Mitsubishi Regional Jet small aircraft.

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Reporters experience flight aboard U.S. air tanker

IWAKUNI, Japan - Reporters experience a one-hour flight aboard a U.S. KC-130 aerial refueling plane at the U.S. Marine Corps' air station in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, on Aug. 28, 2014. The aircraft has been redeployed from the Futenma air station in Ginowan in the southernmost prefecture of Okinawa.

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Filter installed for nuke reactor at atomic power plant

MATSUE, Japan - Work is under way to install a filter inside ventilating equipment for the No. 2 reactor at Chubu Electric Power Co.'s nuclear power plant in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, western Japan, on Aug. 28, 2014.

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Air tanker parks at U.S. base in Iwakuni, western Japan

IWAKUNI, Japan - A U.S. KC-130 aerial refueling plane parks at the U.S. Marine Corps' air station in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, on Aug. 28, 2014, after its transfer from the Futenma air station in Ginowan in the southernmost prefecture of Okinawa.

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China delegate speaks at APEC ocean-related meeting

XIAMEN, China - Liu Cigui, head of China's State Oceanic Administration, speaks at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum's ocean-related ministerial meeting in the Chinese coastal city of Xiamen on Aug. 28, 2014. Ichita Yamamto, Japan's minister for ocean policy and territorial integrity, is seen on the right side at the bottom of this photo.

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Reporters board U.S. air tanker for experimental flight

IWAKUNI, Japan - Reporters board a U.S. KC-130 aerial refueling plane for a one-hour flight experience at the U.S. Marine Corps' air station in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, on Aug. 28, 2014. The aircraft has been redeployed at the base from the Futenma air station in Ginowan in the southernmost prefecture of Okinawa.

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Kishida meets with new S. Korean envoy

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (far L) meets with South Korea's new Ambassador to Japan Yoo Heung Soo (far R) on Aug. 28, 2014, at his ministry in Tokyo. Kishida sought Yoo's cooperation in improving bilateral relations strained by a territorial dispute and differing perceptions of wartime history. (Pool photo)

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Okinawa okays seabed drilling off Henoko for U.S. base move

FUKUOKA, Japan - The Okinawa prefectural government approves the start of seabed drilling off the Henoko area in Nago on Aug. 28, 2014, a necessary step to fill in an offshore zone and build a replacement facility for the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma air station in Ginowan in the southwestern Japan prefecture. The Henoko coastal area is seen in this file phone taken on June 28, 2014.

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FM Kishida shakes hands with new S. Korean envoy Yoo

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (L) shakes hands with South Korea's new Ambassador to Japan Yoo Heung Soo in Tokyo on Aug. 28, 2014. (Pool photo)

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Japan boss Aguirre starts from scratch with new-look squad

TOKYO, Japan - Japan coach Javier Aguirre attends a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 28, 2014, as he named players in a new-look squad for his first two games in charge of the Blue Samurai team. Japan is scheduled to take on Uruguay in Sapporo on Sept. 5 and Venezuela in Yokohama four days later.

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Actor named 'lucky' as special vice governor of Hokkaido

SAPPORO, Japan - Yo Oizumi (R), an actor from Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost prefecture, receives a letter of appointment as a special "fuku" (meaning both lucky and deputy in Japanese) governor from Hokkaido Governor Harumi Takahashi in Sapporo on Aug. 28, 2014.

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Tokyo's Haneda airport opens more shops

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows newly opened shops in an expanded retail zone at the international passenger terminal of Tokyo's Haneda airport on Aug. 28, 2014. The shops are accessible to visitors who are not flying out of the airport.

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STAP cells paper co-author Sasai commits suicide

KOBE, Japan - File photo taken Jan. 28, 2014, in the western Japan city of Kobe shows Yoshiki Sasai (R), deputy director of the Riken Center for Developmental Biology, and Riken scientist Haruko Obokata announcing their research on so-called STAP cells. Sasai, a co-author of STAP research papers, committed suicide on Aug. 5 at Riken. Obokata is the lead author of the two controversial papers.