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Yokozuna Hakuho to advertise new 'shochu' liquor

TOKYO, Japan - Yokozuna Hakuho attends a press conference held by Kirishima Shuzo Co. in Tokyo on Dec. 9, 2014, to announce the release of a new "shochu" liquor product set for Jan. 21, 2015. The top sumo wrestler is set to appear in the advertisement of the new product for the distilled beverage maker.

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Rugby: Ex-Japan star Ayumu Goromaru to retire

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 9 Kyodo - File photo taken in September 2015 shows Ayumu Goromaru preparing to kick a penalty in Japan's 34-32 victory over South Africa in a Rugby World Cup pool match in Brighton, England. Goromaru has decided to retire after the Japan Rugby Top League season beginning in January 2021, according to his club Yamaha Jubilo.

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Beijing's air pollution expands to neighboring areas

BEIJING, Dec. 9 Kyodo - Photo taken Dec. 9, 2015, shows haze in a park in Beijing amid serious air pollution with a red alert, the highest of four danger levels, issued. It was reported that smog has spread to neighboring areas, affecting more than 300 million people.

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Nara temples to host tea ceremonies in Feb. 2015

NARA, Japan - Representatives of seven major Buddhist temples in Nara, western Japan, attend a press conference on Dec. 18, 2014, at the city office to promote a series of grand tea ceremonies by five schools of the traditional Japanese art at the temples set for Feb. 9-15, 2015.

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'Station master' Tama lights up Xmas illumination

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Tama, the calico cat "station master" at Wakayama Electric Railway Co.'s Kishi Station in Kinokawa, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, attends the station's illumination ceremony on Dec. 7, 2014. The light-up attraction runs through Jan. 9, 2015.

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(EyesonSci) CHINA-GUIZHOU-ASTRONOMY-FAST-TELESCOPE (CN)

(220806) -- GUIZHOU, Aug. 6, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Combo photo shows China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) with the first reflection panel installed (upper L, photo taken on Aug. 2, 2015), with nearly half of the reflection panels installed (upper R, photo taken on Dec. 16, 2015), with about 80 percent of the reflection panels installed (lower L, photo taken on March 9, 2016), and a panoramic view of FAST (lower R, photo taken on July 21, 2022), in southwest China's Guizhou Province. Located in a naturally deep and round karst depression in southwest China's Guizhou Province, FAST started formal operation in January 2020 and officially opened to the world on March 31, 2021. It is believed to be the world's most sensitive radio telescope. With FAST, scientists have identified over 660 new pulsars. (Xinhua/Ou Dongqu)

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S. Korean man given 4-year prison term over fire at Yasukuni

Photo taken Dec. 9, 2015, shows Chon Chang Han, a South Korean man, who has been found guilty of damaging the ceiling of a public restroom at the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo in November 2015 after setting fire to a gunpowder-filled metal pipe. The Tokyo District Court sentenced the 28-year-old to four years in prison on July 19, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Protests against regulations on media, court in Poland

Protestors stage a rally in Warsaw on Dec. 19, 2015, against the government's move to tighten regulations on news media and the constitutional court. The anti-government forces have staged demonstrations almost every week since December, gathering around 20,000 protestors in the capital on Jan. 9. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Protests against regulations on media, court in Poland

Protestors stage a rally in Warsaw on Dec. 19, 2015, against the government's move to tighten regulations on news media and the constitutional court. The anti-government forces have staged demonstrations almost every week since December, gathering around 20,000 protestors in the capital on Jan. 9. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rugby: No time for complacency: Brave Blossoms' Tanaka

Japan scrumhalf Fumiaki Tanaka is interviewed in Tokyo on Dec. 9, 2015. The 30-year-old Tanaka, who plays in the Top League for Panasonic Wild Knights and in Super Rugby for the Highlanders, said Japanese rugby is still in crisis even though the national team won three of their four games at the Rugby World Cup in England. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Gold Actor steals the show to win Arima Kinen

Gold Actor (7), jockeyed by Hayato Yoshida, wins the Arima Kinen at Nakayama Racecourse in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture, on Dec. 27, 2015. The 4-year-old colt went off as the eighth choice and held off Sounds of Earth (9) to net a first-place prize of 250 million yen. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Barcelona FC win 3-0 against Guangzhou Evergrande FC

Forward Luis Suarez (9) of Spain's Barcelona FC scores his side's third goal from a penalty kick during the second half of a FIFA Club World Cup semifinal match against China's Guangzhou Evergrande FC at Nissan Stadium in Yokohama on Dec. 17, 2015. Suarez scored a hat trick to lead Barcelona to a 3-0 victory. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Barcelona FC beat Guangzhou Evergrande FC in FIFA Club World Cup

Forward Luis Suarez (9) of Spain's Barcelona FC scores the opener past goalkeeper Li Shuai (22) of China's Guangzhou Evergrande FC during the first half of a semifinal match in the FIFA Club World Cup tournament at Nissan Stadium in Yokohama on Dec. 17, 2015. Barcelona won 3-0. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's Ito claims ITTF Breakthrough Star award

Undated photo shows Japan's table tennis player Mima Ito. The 15-year-old prodigy won the newly established "Breakthrough Star of the Year" award on Dec. 9, 2015, at the International Table Tennis Federation's end-of-year awards night in Lisbon, Portugal. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Honda's business jet certified fit to fly by U.S. regulators

Honda Aircraft Co. President Michimasa Fujino (R) shakes hands with U.S. Federal Aviation Administration Administrator Michael Huerta in Greensboro, North Caroline, on Dec. 9, 2015, after the HondaJet light aircraft, developed by the Honda Motor Co.'s American subsidiary, receives airworthiness certification from the U.S. regulators. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fielding, versatility could open door for Matsuda

Sports agent Peter Greenberg (L), who represents Japanese baseball player Nobuhiro Matsuda, speaks to reporters on Dec. 9, 2015 in Nashville, Tennessee, the venue of the Major League Baseball winter meetings. Greenberg revealed that five or six major league clubs have shown interest in the SoftBank Hawks third baseman, a four-time Golden Glove winner. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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IOC hails switch of Tokyo Olympic cycling venues

John Coates, vice president of the International Olympic Committee, attends a press conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Dec. 9, 2015. Coates highly evaluated a cost-cutting proposal from Tokyo Olympic organizers to move the track cycling and mountain bike events to the Shizuoka Prefecture city of Izu, about 150 kilometers south of central Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Writer, ex-lawmaker Nosaka dies at 85

File photo shows award-winning writer and former House of Coucillors lawmaker Akiyuki Nosaka attending an upper house question-and-answer session in 1983. Nosaka died at a Tokyo hospital on Dec. 9, 2015, at 85. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Honda's business jet certified fit to fly by U.S. regulators

The HondaJet is displayed on Dec. 9, 2015, at the venue of a ceremony in Greensboro, North Carolina, to celebrate its receipt of airworthiness certification from U.S. regulators. It marks Japanese carmaker Honda Motor Co.'s entry into the aviation business more than half a century after its late founder Soichiro Honda in 1962 unveiled his ambition to reach for the skies. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Writer, ex-lawmaker Nosaka dies at 85

File photo shows award-winning writer and former House of Coucillors lawmaker Akiyuki Nosaka singing on stage in December 1974. Nosaka died at a Tokyo hospital on Dec. 9, 2015, at 85. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Writer, ex-lawmaker Nosaka dies at 85

File photo taken in July 2000 shows award-winning writer Akiyuki Nosaka during an interview at his home in Tokyo. Nosaka, also a former House of Councillors lawmaker, died at a Tokyo hospital on Dec. 9, 2015, at 85. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Honda's business jet certified fit to fly by U.S. regulators

File photo taken in April 2015 shows the HondaJet light aircraft developed by an American subsidiary of Honda Motor Co. The Japanese carmaker announced in the United States on Dec. 9 that the HondaJet has received airworthiness certification from U.S. regulators. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hanyu, Uno in official practice for Grand Prix Final

Japanese figure skaters Yuzuru Hanyu (R) and Shoma Uno are on the ice during the official practice session of the Grand Prix Final in Barcelona on Dec. 9, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Swedish Academy chair discusses Nobel laureate Alexievich's work

Sara Danius, chair of the Swedish Academy, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Stockholm on Dec. 9, 2015. She emphasized the significance of Nobel literature laureate Svetlana Alexievich's work that has brought back memories of people's suffering in war and nuclear accidents. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hanyu in official practice for Grand Prix Final

Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan skates on the ice during the official practice session of the Grand Prix Final in Barcelona on Dec. 9, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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ANA considering direct flights to Mexico: president

All Nippon Airways Co. President Osamu Shinobe tells reporters at the venue of a Star Alliance meeting in Chicago on Dec. 9, 2015 that ANA is considering starting direct flights between Japan and Mexico. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Asada in official practice for Grand Prix Final

Mao Asada of Japan skates on the ice during the official practice session of the Grand Prix Final in Barcelona on Dec. 9, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Asada in official practice for Grand Prix Final

Mao Asada of Japan skates on the ice during the official practice session of the Grand Prix Final in Barcelona on Dec. 9, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan confirms probe in orbit around Venus after 5-yr detour

Masato Nakamura, a professor at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, holds a press conference in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, on Dec. 9, 2015 while showing a picture of Venus taken by JAXA's Akatsuki probe. JAXA confirmed that Akatsuki has successfully entered orbit around Venus and begun testing equipment to observe meteorological phenomena on the planet. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Total sales of AKB48 singles hit 36 million copies, a Japan record

Songwriter Yasushi Akimoto (C) is surrounded by members of the Japanese all-girl pop group AKB48 in Tokyo in this file photo taken in May 2013. Total sales of CDs with just one song by AKB48 have reached 36,158,000 copies, the most ever by a recording artist or group in Japan, music information provider Oricon Inc. said Dec. 9, 2015. Combined sales of single CDs written by Yasushi Akimoto surpassed 100 million copies, another first in Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Olympics: mountain bike, track cycling move outside Tokyo approved

International Olympic Committee head Thomas Bach (far R) and other IOC executives attend a meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland on Dec. 9, 2015. The IOC approved a cost-cutting proposal from Tokyo Olympic organizers to move the track cycling and mountain bike events to the Shizuoka Prefecture city of Izu, about 150 kilometers south of central Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Air pollution in Beijing

A man puts a mask on a child on the streets of Beijing on Dec. 9, 2015, as severe air pollution continued to envelop the Chinese capital. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Air pollution in Beijing

A man wearing a mask rides a subway in Beijing on Dec. 9, 2015, as severe air pollution continued to envelop the Chinese capital. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Air pollution in Beijing

Police officers wear masks as they stand guard at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Dec. 9, 2015, as severe air pollution continued to envelop the Chinese capital. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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S. Korean man arrested over suspected bombing at Yasukuni Shrine

Chon Chang Han, a 27-year-old South Korean man, is taken to a police cell at the Metropolitan Police Department Headquarters in Chiyoda Ward in Tokyo from the nearby Kojimachi Police Station on the night of Dec. 9, 2015. Japanese police arrested Chon earlier in the day in connection with a recent suspected bombing at a public restroom at Yasukuni Shrine in the Japanese capital, viewed by neighboring Asian countries as a symbol of Japan's militarist past. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Air pollution in Beijing

A police officer wears a mask as he stands guard at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Dec. 9, 2015, as severe air pollution continued to envelop the Chinese capital. A huge portrait of Mao Zedong is barely visible in the background through the haze. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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S. Korean man arrested over suspected bombing at Yasukuni Shrine

Chon Chang Han (C), a 27-year-old South Korean man, is taken to a police cell at the Metropolitan Police Department Headquarters in Chiyoda Ward in Tokyo from the nearby Kojimachi Police Station on the night of Dec. 9, 2015. Japanese police arrested Chon earlier in the day in connection with a recent suspected bombing at a public restroom at Yasukuni Shrine in the Japanese capital, viewed by neighboring Asian countries as a symbol of Japan's militarist past. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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S. Korean man arrested over suspected bombing at Yasukuni Shrine

Chon Chang Han (C), a 27-year-old South Korean man, is taken to a police cell at the Metropolitan Police Department Headquarters in Chiyoda Ward in Tokyo from the nearby Kojimachi Police Station on the night of Dec. 9, 2015. Japanese police arrested Chon earlier in the day in connection with a recent suspected bombing at a public restroom at Yasukuni Shrine in the Japanese capital, viewed by neighboring Asian countries as a symbol of Japan's militarist past. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Air pollution in Beijing

Police officers wear masks as they patrol Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Dec. 9, 2015, as severe air pollution continued to envelop the Chinese capital. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Air pollution in Beijing

A junior high school student plays with a ball indoors in Beijing on Dec. 9, 2015, as severe air pollution continued to envelop the Chinese capital. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese, U.S. negotiators look back on TPP talks

Akira Amari, the Japanese minister for economic and fiscal policy, gives a lecture in Tokyo on Dec. 9, 2015, as he and a U.S. negotiator in the recently completed Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade talks, former Acting Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Wendy Cutler, looked back on the negotiations. Amari said the TPP agreement will give Japan a great opportunity for crafting a strategy for growth and that the country will release by the end of the year an estimate for its impact. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Bank of Tokyo-M'bishi UFJ to promote deputy head Oyamada to president

Undated photo shows Takashi Oyamada, a deputy president of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ. The major Japanese bank plans to promote Oyamada, 60, to president in April, sources close to the matter said Dec. 9, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese, U.S. negotiators look back on TPP talks

Wendy Cutler, former acting deputy U.S. trade representative, gives a lecture in Tokyo on Dec. 9, 2015, as she and a top Japanese negotiator in the recently completed Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade talks, Economic and Fiscal Policy Minister Akira Amari, looked back on the negotiations. Cutler said that Japan was a key ally of the United States in pushing the TPP talks, and expressed hope that the close ties between the two nations will continue. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New Toyota Prius goes on sale

Photo taken in October 2015 shows Toyota Motor Corp.'s new Prius hybrid, which has undergone its first full model change in six years and seven months. It went on sale in Japan on Dec. 9. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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S. Korean man nabbed over suspected bombing at Yasukuni Shrine

A vehicle enters a police station in Tokyo on Dec. 9, 2015, carrying a South Korean man in connection with a recent suspected bombing at a public restroom at Yasukuni Shrine, a symbol of Japan's militarist past by neighboring Asian countries. Chon Chang Han, 27, was arrested on the technical grounds of entering premises for unlawful purposes. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Dolls depicting 2015 newsmakers

"Hina" dolls modeled after newsmakers of the year 2015 created by doll maker Tougyoku are displayed in Saitama, north of Tokyo, on Dec. 9, 2015. The dolls at right depict rugby players Michael Leitch and Ayumu Goromaru, who became popular after Japan's strong outing in the World Cup between September and October. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Myanmar's 1st stock exchange opens in Yangon

Photo taken Dec. 9, 2015, shows the ribbon-cutting during the opening ceremony for Myanmar's first stock exchange in Yangon. The Japanese public and private sectors supported its launch. Trading will start in spring 2016, with around five companies to be listed. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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More than half of local residents oppose Ikata nuclear plant restart

A group of local residents at the Ehime prefectural government building in western Japan on Dec. 9, 2015 says a recent survey showed 53.2 percent of respondents opposing the restart of a nuclear reactor. The No. 3 reactor of Shikoku Electric Power Co.'s Ikata plant is expected to resume operations as early as the spring of 2016, following approval by the governor of Ehime in October. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Beijing's air pollution expands to neighboring areas

A woman wears a mask on Dec. 9, 2015, in Beijing, where a red alert for air pollution, the highest of four danger levels, has been issued. It was reported that smog has spread to neighboring areas, affecting more than 300 million people. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nakatani, Kennedy to observe command post exercise

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (far R) and Defense Minister Gen Nakatani (L) visit the Ground Self-Defense Force's Itami garrison in the western Japan city of Itami on Dec. 9, 2015, to observe the Japan-U.S. command post exercise. Around 6,500 from both countries will participate in it, while six from the Australian forces will attend as observers. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo