Paris Olympics: Athletics

Paris Olympics: Athletics

Athletes compete during a heat of the Women's 5,000 meters at the Paris Olympics on August 2, 2024, at Stade de France in Saint-Denis, near Paris.

Paris Olympics: Athletics

Paris Olympics: Athletics

Japan's Nozomi Tanaka competes during a heat of the Women's 5,000 meters at the Paris Olympics on August 2, 2024, at Stade de France in Saint-Denis, near Paris.

Paris Olympics: Athletics

Paris Olympics: Athletics

Athletes, including Japan's Nozomi Tanaka (front), compete during a heat of the Women's 5,000 meters at the Paris Olympics on August 2, 2024, at Stade de France in Saint-Denis, near Paris.

Paris Olympics: Athletics

Paris Olympics: Athletics

Japan's Nozomi Tanaka competes during a heat of the Women's 5,000 meters at the Paris Olympics on August 2, 2024, at Stade de France in Saint-Denis, near Paris.

Paris Olympics: Athletics

Paris Olympics: Athletics

Athletes, including Japan's Nozomi Tanaka (R), compete during a heat of the Women's 5,000 meters at the Paris Olympics on August 2, 2024, at Stade de France in Saint-Denis, near Paris.

Tokyo Olympics:Shooting

Tokyo Olympics:Shooting

A Mongolian coach has the Olympic rings cut and colored into his hair as he watches the shooting game at the Tokyo Olympic Games.Date: August 2, 2021Place: Asaka Shooting Range in Saitama Prefecture, JAPAN

Judo: Coach Inoue backing fresh-looking Japan team for worlds

Judo: Coach Inoue backing fresh-looking Japan team for worlds

TOKYO, Japan, May 2 Kyodo - Japan's judo national team coach Kosei Inoue speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on May 2, 2017. A total of 18 judoka were announced for the world championships starting in late August in Budapest.

Seven & i Holdings reports record 1st half operating profit

Seven & i Holdings reports record 1st half operating profit

TOKYO, Japan - Noritoshi Murata, president and chief operating officer of retail giant Seven & i Holdings Co., briefs reporters on the group's financial results for the March-August half-year period at a news conference in Tokyo on Oct. 2, 2014.

Adding atomic bomb victim names in Nagasaki

Adding atomic bomb victim names in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - Takako Morita (R) and Mihoko Hama, children of atomic bomb victims, add new names to the list of deceased victims of the 1945 atomic bombing in Nagasaki at the city hall on June 2, 2014. The added names are of people who died in August 2013 or afterwards, or whose death has been newly confirmed.

Physicist Tonomura dies at 70

Physicist Tonomura dies at 70

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in August 2006 shows Japanese physicist Akira Tonomura. A fellow at electronics giant Hitachi Ltd. tipped as a future Nobel Prize winner for years, Tonomura died of pancreatic cancer early on May 2, 2012, at a hospital in Hidaka, Saitama Prefecture. He was 70. Tonomura was known for developing electron holography for observing microscopic structures in matter using the wave nature of electrons and confirming the so-called Aharonov-Bohm effect, the existence of which had long been disputed among physicists.

Gaddafi forces' post at heritage site

Gaddafi forces' post at heritage site

SABRATHA, Libya - Photo shows a post deserted by forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi at the Archaeological Site of Sabratha, a World Heritage site, in Libya on Sept. 2, 2011. Opposition forces took over the area in mid-August.

Gaddafi forces' post at heritage site

Gaddafi forces' post at heritage site

SABRATHA, Libya - Photo shows the Archaeological Site of Sabratha, a World Heritage site, in Libya on Sept. 2, 2011. Opposition forces took over the area from forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi in mid-August.

Gaddafi forces' post at heritage site

Gaddafi forces' post at heritage site

SABRATHA, Libya - Man guards the Archaeological Site of Sabratha, a World Heritage site, in Libya on Sept. 2, 2011. Opposition forces took over the area from forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi in mid-August.

Japanese painter Hirayama, PM Takeshita

Japanese painter Hirayama, PM Takeshita

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese painter Ikuo Hirayama (C) is seen viewing Buddhism art in Dunhuang, in China's Gansu Province, in August 1988 together with then Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita (L). Hirayama, a traditional-style Japanese painter known for his works with themes based on the Silk Road and Buddhism, died of a stroke Dec. 2, 2009.