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Humanoid robots play football

Humanoid robots take part in a football practice match in Beijing on Aug. 4, 2025, during a media preview for the inaugural World Humanoid Robot Sports Games, set to take place in Beijing in mid-August.

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Humanoid robots play football

Humanoid robots take part in a football practice match in Beijing on Aug. 4, 2025, during a media preview for the inaugural World Humanoid Robot Sports Games, set to take place in Beijing in mid-August.

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Humanoid robots play football

Humanoid robots take part in a football kickaround with a human in Beijing on Aug. 4, 2025, during a media preview for the inaugural World Humanoid Robot Sports Games, set to take place in Beijing in mid-August.

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CORRECTED: TEPCO president Kobayakawa

Tomoaki Kobayakawa, president of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc., which operates the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, meets Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Ken Saito meets in Tokyo on Sept. 4, 2024, to report on the cause of the suspension of efforts to extract small amounts of melted fuel from one of the reactors in August.

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TEPCO president Kobayakawa

Tomoaki Kobayakawa (L), president of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc., which operates the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, meets Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Ken Saito in Tokyo on Sept. 4, 2024, to report on the cause of the suspension of efforts to extract small amounts of melted fuel from one of the reactors in August.

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Japan-U.S. joint defense exercise

Photo taken Aug. 4, 2024, shows a U.S. Marine Corps latest-model radar (back) deployed at the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force's camp on Yonaguni Island in the southern Japan prefecture of Okinawa during Resolute Dragon, a Japan-U.S. joint exercise held between late July and early August. The drill is aimed at strengthening the capability to defend remote islands.

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Japan-U.S. joint defense exercise

Photo taken Aug. 4, 2024, shows a U.S. Marine Corps latest-model radar (back) deployed at the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force's camp on Yonaguni Island in the southern Japan prefecture of Okinawa during Resolute Dragon, a Japan-U.S. joint exercise held between late July and early August. The drill is aimed at strengthening the capability to defend remote islands.

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Japan-U.S. joint defense exercise

Photo taken Aug. 4, 2024, shows a U.S. Marine Corps latest-model radar deployed at the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force's camp on Yonaguni Island in the southern Japan prefecture of Okinawa during Resolute Dragon, a Japan-U.S. joint exercise held between late July and early August. The drill is aimed at strengthening the capability to defend remote islands.

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Fujii moves toward 8th title

Sota Fujii, holder of seven of shogi's eight titles, poses after winning his match against Masayuki Toyoshima in Osaka on Aug. 4, 2023. The victory made the 21-year old eligible to face off against Takuya Nagase, holder of Oza, the only shogi title not yet in Fujii's hands, in the best-of-five series starting in late August.

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Fujii moves toward 8th title

Sota Fujii, holder of seven of shogi's eight titles, meets the press after winning his match against Masayuki Toyoshima in Osaka on Aug. 4, 2023. The victory made the 21-year old eligible to face off against Takuya Nagase, holder of Oza, the only shogi title not yet in Fujii's hands, in the best-of-five series starting in late August.

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Fujii moves toward 8th title

Sota Fujii, holder of seven of shogi's eight titles, reviews his match against Masayuki Toyoshima in Osaka on Aug. 4, 2023. His victory made the 21-year old eligible to face off against Takuya Nagase, holder of Oza, the only shogi title not yet in Fujii's hands, in the best-of-five series starting in late August.

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Fujii moves toward 8th title

Sota Fujii (R), holder of seven of shogi's eight titles, reviews his match against Masayuki Toyoshima in Osaka on Aug. 4, 2023. His victory made the 21-year old eligible to face off against Takuya Nagase, holder of Oza, the only shogi title not yet in Fujii's hands, in the best-of-five series starting in late August.

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Fujii moves toward 8th title

Sota Fujii (L), holder of seven of shogi's eight titles, reviews his match against Masayuki Toyoshima in Osaka on Aug. 4, 2023. His victory made the 21-year old eligible to face off against Takuya Nagase, holder of Oza, the only shogi title not yet in Fujii's hands, in the best-of-five series starting in late August.

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Ex-baseball commissioner Negoro dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in August 2007 in Tokyo shows Yasuchika Negoro, then acting commissioner of Nippon Professional Baseball. Negoro, a former NPB commissioner who took the post after retiring as head of the Tokyo High Public Prosecutors' Office, died of lung cancer at a Tokyo hospital on Nov. 4, 2013, the Justice Ministry said Nov. 8. He was 81.

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Panda breeding on successful track at Wakayama zoo

SHIRAHAMA, Japan - Photo taken June 4, 2013 shows giant panda Rauhin (R) and her female cub, Yuhin, at the Adventure World park in Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture. Rauhin gave birth to Yuhin last August at the park, which has celebrated the birth of panda cubs on eight occasions, resulting in 12 cubs, all of which have survived.

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Death of Japanese journalist in Syria

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese journalist Kazutaka Sato answers reporters' questions after visiting the Syrian Embassy in Tokyo on Sept. 4, 2012, to request that Damascus determine why his partner and colleague Mika Yamamoto was shot dead in Syria in August. Sato was with Yamamoto when she was shot in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo while covering the country's civil war.

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Death of Japanese journalist in Syria

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese journalist Kazutaka Sato (front L) enters the Syrian Embassy in Tokyo on Sept. 4, 2012, to request that Damascus determine why his partner and colleague Mika Yamamoto was shot dead in Syria in August. Sato was with Yamamoto when she was shot in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo while covering the country's civil war.

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London Olympics countdown

LONDON, Britain - A competitor makes a pole vault attempt during a meet at the Olympic Stadium in London on May 4, 2012, against a sign reading ''Welcome to the Olympic Stadium'' prior to the London Olympic Games in July and August 2012.

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London Olympics countdown

LONDON, Britain - An employee carries out work while suspended from the Orbit tower beside the Olympic Stadium in London on May 4, 2012, prior to the London Olympic Games in July and August 2012.

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Kim Yu Na in ice show

SEOUL, South Korea - Vancouver Olympic champion Kim Yu Na of South Korea performs in ice show E1 All That Skate Spring 2012 at Olympic Gymnasium Stadium in Seoul on May 4, 2012. It was her first appearance on the ice in the country since August 2011.

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Kim Yu Na in ice show

SEOUL, South Korea - Vancouver Olympic champion Kim Yu Na of South Korea performs in ice show E1 All That Skate Spring 2012 at Olympic Gymnasium Stadium in Seoul on May 4, 2012. It was her first appearance on the ice in the country since August 2011.

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Little monks in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - Young apprentices line up for group photos at Higashi Honganji, mother temple of the Shinshu Otani-ha branch of Shin Buddhism, in Shimogyo Ward, Kyoto, on August 4, 2011, after attending a Tokudo ordination ceremony to become Buddhist monks earlier in the day. One hundred and thirteen elementary school and junior high school students were among the 153 men and women aged nine to 65 from across Japan who attended the ceremony.

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Little monks in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - A young boy makes a droll gesture with his rosary beads before a Tokudo ordination ceremony to become a Buddhist monk at Higashi Honganji, mother temple of the Shinshu Otani-ha branch of Shin Buddhism, in Shimogyo Ward, Kyoto, on August 4, 2011. One hundred and thirteen elementary school and junior high school students were among the 153 men and women aged nine to 65 from across Japan who attended the ceremony.

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Little monks in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - Young apprentices attend a Tokudo ordination ceremony to become Buddhist monks at Higashi Honganji, mother temple of the Shinshu Otani-ha branch of Shin Buddhism, in Shimogyo Ward, Kyoto, on August 4, 2011. One hundred and thirteen elementary school and junior high school students were among the 153 men and women aged nine to 65 from across Japan who attended the ceremony.

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Little monks in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - Young apprentices attend a Tokudo ordination ceremony to become Buddhist monks at Higashi Honganji, mother temple of the Shinshu Otani-ha branch of Shin Buddhism, in Shimogyo Ward, Kyoto, on August 4, 2011. One hundred and thirteen elementary school and junior high school students were among the 153 men and women aged nine to 65 from across Japan who attended the ceremony.

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Kan meets with U.N. chief Ban

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon shake hands at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on August 4, 2010, after their meeting. The two exchanged views on the international community's efforts toward nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation, a day ahead of Ban's departure for Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

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IBAF asks JOC for cooperation

TOKYO, Japan - International Baseball Federation President Riccardo Fraccari speaks during an interview in Tokyo on August 4, 2010. Fraccari asked the Japanese Olympic Committee for its cooperation in bringing baseball back for the 2020 Summer Olympics.

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Toyota revises up forecast

TOKYO, Japan - Takahiko Ijichi, Toyota Motor Corp.'s senior managing director, speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on August 4, 2010. Toyota revised upward its earnings forecasts for the current business year on an anticipated increase in global auto sales.

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Toyota revises up forecast

TOKYO, Japan - Takahiko Ijichi, Toyota Motor Corp.'s senior managing director, speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on August 4, 2010. Toyota revised upward its earnings forecasts for the current business year on an anticipated increase in global auto sales.

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Kan goes fishing

TOKYO, Japan - Democratic Party of Japan executives (from left) Naoto Kan, Yukio Hatoyama and Ichiro Ozawa go fishing in the sea aboard a boat off Miyake Island in the Pacific in August 2006. Kan was named prime minister on June 4, 2010.

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Kan eats radish sprouts

TOKYO, Japan - Naoto Kan, then health minister, eats radish sprouts before reporters to demonstrate the safety of the products at the ministry in Tokyo in August 1996. Kan, who was named prime minister on June 4, 2010, made the demonstration after the ministry blamed radish sprouts as a possible cause of food poisoning.

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Damaged artwork by Yayoi Kusama restored

Photo taken on Oct. 4, 2022, shows an artwork called "Pumpkin" by renowned contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama after its restoration in Naoshima, Kagawa Prefecture, western Japan. The sculpture was damaged after being swept into the sea by high winds in a typhoon in August 2021.

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Damaged artwork by Yayoi Kusama restored

Photo taken on Oct. 4, 2022, shows an artwork called "Pumpkin" by renowned contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama after its restoration in Naoshima, Kagawa Prefecture, western Japan. The sculpture was damaged after being swept into the sea by high winds in a typhoon in August 2021.