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Fukushima students meet Hiroshima A-bomb survivor

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Maya Fukuda (front far R) and other middle and high school students from Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, listen to the tragic history of atomic bombing survivor Taeko Teramae in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Aug. 5, 2014. The students in turn told Teramae of their own experiences with the 2011 Fukushima nuclear power accident.

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U.S. Japan NGOs' meeting over tsunami debris

PORTLAND, United States - A meeting over the landfall in North America of debris from the March 2011 tsunami in Japan is held by U.S. and Japanese nongovernmental organizations in Portland, Oregon, on Aug. 5, 2012.

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Stud bulls in Miyazaki

MIYAZAKI, Japan - Cattle farmer Nagahisa Komoda strokes a stud bull in Takanabe, Miyazaki Prefecture, on Aug. 5, 2011. Komoda resumed keeping stud bulls about one year after culling all the stud bulls he owned in response to a Japanese government request in 2010 to do so to contain an outbreak of foot-and mouth disease.

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Chinese aircraft carrier at Dalian port

DALIAN, China - Photo taken on Aug. 5, 2011, shows China's first aircraft carrier, the Soviet-built Varyag, at Dalian port in Liaoning Province. Chinese media reported that an aircraft landing drill on the carrier may be conducted on Aug. 13, 2011, as Chinese authorities have issued a 24-hour navigation ban in the northwestern Bohai Sea.

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Yingluck elected as 1st Thai female prime minister

BANGKOK, Thailand - Yingluck Shinawatra (C) speaks with reporters in Bangkok on Aug. 5, 2011, shortly after being elected as Thailand's first female and 28th prime minister in a parliamentary vote. The 44-year-old former businesswoman is the youngest sister of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

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New Yorkers commemorate Hiroshima victims

NEW YORK, United States - Around 80 New Yorkers take part in a gathering at a park near the United Nations headquarters in New York on Aug. 5, 2011, to mark the exact moment the world's first atomic attack took place over the Japanese city of Hiroshima 66 years ago by ringing bells for peace.

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Tokyo stocks fall sharply

TOKYO, Japan - A signboard in the Yaesu district of central Tokyo shows the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average's fall by 359.30 points to 9,299.88 on Aug. 5, 2011, marking its lowest close since March 18, amid global equity declines.

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Yingluck elected as 1st Thai female prime minister

BANGKOK, Thailand - Yingluck Shinawatra (C) is pictured in Bangkok on Aug. 5, 2011, shortly after being elected as Thailand's first female and 28th prime minister in a parliamentary vote. The 44-year-old former businesswoman is the youngest sister of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

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Yingluck elected as 1st female Thai prime minister

BANGKOK, Thailand - Yingluck Shinawatra (C) is pictured in Bangkok on Aug. 5, 2011, shortly after being elected as Thailand's first female and 28th prime minister in a parliamentary vote. The 44-year-old former businesswoman is the youngest sister of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

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Yingluck elected as 1st Thai female prime minister

BANGKOK, Thailand - Yingluck Shinawatra (front) is pictured in Bangkok on Aug. 5, 2011, shortly after being elected as Thailand's first female and 28th prime minister in a parliamentary vote. The 44-year-old former businesswoman is the youngest sister of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

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Death of Ghanaian man during deportation

TOKYO, Japan - Lawyer Koichi Kodama (R) looks at a photo of Abubakar Awudu Suraj, a Ghanaian man who died during the process of his deportation from Japan, at a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 5, 2011. His Japanese widow filed a damages suit the same day against the state and nine immigration officers, alleging that the officers at Narita airport injured him and caused him to die in March 2010.

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Japan unveils ideas for new nuclear safety agency

TOKYO, Japan - Goshi Hosono, minister in charge of the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 5, 2011. He unveiled a set of ideas to improve nuclear safety in Japan, proposing that a new agency be set up under either the Environment Ministry or the Cabinet Office. ''Japan's national interests will be seriously damaged'' if the regulatory reform fails, Hosono said.

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Yingluck elected as 1st Thai female prime minister

BANGKOK, Thailand - Yingluck Shinawatra (C) attends a House of Representatives session in Bangkok on Aug. 5, 2011, for a nomination vote for prime minister. The 44-year-old former businesswoman, the youngest sister of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, was elected as Thailand's 28th prime minister and first female prime minister after receiving 296 votes in the 500-seat House of Representatives from legislators of her Pheu Thai Party and five allied parties.

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Female gov't leaders in Southeast Asia

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photos show (from L to R) the late Corazon Aquino, who was president of the Philippines between 1986 and 1992, Gloria Arroyo, who was president of the Philippines between 2001 and 2010, and Megawati Sukarnoputri, who was president of Indonesia between 2001 and 2004. On Aug. 5, 2011, Yingluck Shinawatra was elected as Thailand's first female prime minister. The 44-year-old Yingluck is the fourth female top government leader in Southeast Asia after Aquino, Arroyo and Megawati.

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Dow tumbles more than 500 points

TOKYO, Japan - A signboard in the Yaesu district of central Tokyo shows the 30-issue Dow Jones Industrial Average's fall by 512.76 points to 11,383.68 on Aug. 5, 2011.

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Nikkei plunges to 5-month low

TOKYO, Japan - A signboard in the Yaesu district of central Tokyo shows the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average plummeting 389.44 points to 9269.74 at one point in the morning of Aug. 5, 2011.