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Toyota President Toyoda

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken May 11, 2011, shows Akio Toyoda, president of Toyota Motor Corp. The Wall Street Journal picked Toyoda as one of 12 ''Corporate Executives to Watch Next Year'' on Dec. 30, 2011, saying 2012 may be a ''make or break year'' for the chief of the top Japanese automaker.

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Higashikokubaru says to give up Diet seat

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Hideo Higashikokubaru, a Japanese lawmaker from the Japan Restoration Party. Higashikokubaru said Dec. 11, 2013, he will give up his seat in parliament and leave his party due to differences in opinion on policy. He won a seat with the party in proportional representation for the Kinki region in December 2012's House of Representatives election.

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Japanese, Chinese women in N.Y. begin online fashion business

NEW YORK, United States - Staff members of ''Material Wrld,'' online fashion business launched by Japanese and Chinese women Rie Yano and Jie Zheng, select clothing for photos to be posted on the website at a photo studio in New York on Dec. 11, 2012. (Photo by Meg Maruyama)

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Nobel laureate Yamanaka

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Japanese stem cell researcher Shinya Yamanaka, a co-recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in medicine, and his wife Chika head to the royal palace for a banquet hosted by Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf in Stockholm on Dec. 11, 2012. Yamanaka received his prize from the king in the Nobel Prize award ceremony the previous day. (Pool photo)

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Ceramic artist Miwa dies

TOKYO, Japan - An April 2002 photo shows Jusetsu Miwa, a potter designated as a living national treasure. Miwa died on Dec. 11, 2012, at his home in Hagi, Yamaguchi Prefecture. He was 102.

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Nobel laureate Yamanaka

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Japanese stem cell researcher Shinya Yamanaka, a co-recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in medicine, and his wife Chika head to the royal palace for a banquet hosted by Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf in Stockholm on Dec. 11, 2012. Yamanaka received his prize from the king in the Nobel Prize award ceremony the previous day. (Pool photo)

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S. Korean presidential election

SEOUL, South Korea - Moon Jae In, the opposition Democratic United Party's candidate for South Korea's Dec. 19, 2012, presidential election, gives a stump speech near Seoul on Dec. 11, 2012.

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M'bishi Heavy chief Omiya

TOKYO, Japan - Hideaki Omiya, president of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., is interviewed by Kyodo News in Tokyo on Dec. 11, 2012. Omiya showed a positive attitude about integrating the company's nuclear power business with that of Hitachi Ltd.

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S. Korean presidential election

SEOUL, South Korea - Park Geun Hye, the ruling Saenuri Party's candidate for South Korea's Dec. 19, 2012, presidential election, gives a stump speech in Seoul on Dec. 11, 2012.

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N. Korean soldiers

DANDONG, China - Photo taken Dec. 11, 2012, from Dandong in Liaoning Province, China, shows North Korean soldiers standing guard at the border zone.

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S. Korean presidential election

SEOUL, South Korea - Moon Jae In, the opposition Democratic United Party's candidate for South Korea's Dec. 19, 2012, presidential election, is surrounded by voters near Seoul on Dec. 11, 2012.

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People in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Photo shows a slogan in central Pyongyang, North Korea, on Dec. 11, 2012. The slogan praises the country's leader Kim Jong Un.

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S. Korean presidential election

SEOUL, South Korea - Park Geun Hye, the ruling Saenuri Party's candidate for South Korea's Dec. 19, 2012, presidential election, holds up a microphone in front of voters in Seoul on Dec. 11, 2012.

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People in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Photo shows a poster in central Pyongyang, North Korea, on Dec. 11, 2012. The slogan on the poster praises North Korea's "military-first politics."

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People in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - People, some holding flowers, head for Mansu Hill, Pyongyang, North Korea, on Dec. 11, 2012.

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People in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - People shovel snow in freezing temperatures in front of Pyongyang station in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Dec. 11, 2012.

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People in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - People work in freezing temperatures in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Dec. 11, 2012.

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People in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - People walk in freezing temperatures in front of Pyongyang station in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Dec. 11, 2012.

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Nuclear disaster drill

YOKOSUKA, Japan - Japan and the United States hold a joint nuclear disaster drill at the U.S. Navy's Yokosuka base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Dec. 11, 2012.

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Climate talks reach accord

DURBAN, South Africa - Xie Zhenhua (L), vice chairman of China's National Development and Reform Commission, and Todd Stern (R), U.S. climate talks envoy, are pictured at the U.N. climate talks in Durban, South Africa, in the early hours of Dec. 11, 2011. The 17th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP17, agreed to launch a new framework in 2020 including major emitters China and the United States aimed at tackling greenhouse gas emissions, while extending the Kyoto Protocol beyond 2012.

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Climate talks reach accord

DURBAN, South Africa - Participants applaud as the U.N. climate talks reach an accord in Durban, South Africa, in the early hours of Dec. 11, 2011. The 17th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP17, agreed to launch a new framework in 2020 including major emitters China and the United States aimed at tackling greenhouse gas emissions, while extending the Kyoto Protocol beyond 2012.

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Climate talks reach accord

DURBAN, South Africa - Christiana Figueres (front L), executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, and South African foreign minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane hug after the U.N. climate talks reached an accord in Durban, South Africa, in the early hours of Dec. 11, 2011. The 17th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP17, agreed to launch a new framework in 2020 including major emitters China and the United States aimed at tackling greenhouse gas emissions, while extending the Kyoto Protocol beyond 2012.

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School built in Afghanistan with Japan's support

KABUL, Afghanistan - Girls sing during a ceremony to mark completion of the building of their high school in Kabul on Dec. 11, 2010. The building is the first to be finished under the ''Thousand Classroom Project'' to construct 58 school buildings in Afghanistan through 2012 with $24 million in Japanese grants-in-aid via the U.N. Children's Fund.