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Photographer Tomatsu dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in 2009 shows Shomei Tomatsu, a Japanese photographer famous for subjects such as atomic-bomb survivors in Nagasaki and postwar scenes in U.S.-occupied Okinawa Prefecture. Tomatsu died on Dec. 14, 2012, of pneumonia at a hospital in Okinawa's capital Naha. He was 82.

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Japan's Fukushima, partner Kaido ranked in top 100 global thinkers

TOKYO, Japan - Combined file photo shows Mizuho Fukushima (L), leader of the Japanese minor opposition Social Democratic Party, and her partner, lawyer Yuichi Kaido, in images taken on Dec. 6, 2010, and on Jan. 14, 2009, respectively. The couple were ranked 29th in the U.S. magazine Foreign Policy's top 100 global thinkers of 2011 for their antinuclear activism.

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More city dwellers experiencing farming in urban center areas

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Dec. 14, 2009, shows a woman giving water to plants in a rented farming space atop a building in Tokyo's Omotesando district, where various stores of luxury fashion houses operate. An increasing number of big city dwellers are getting experience of farming in urban center areas, whether be it a building rooftop or a vacant plot near a railway station.

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Japanese monkeys take a dip in 'onsen' spa

HAKODATE, Japan - Japanese monkeys warm themselves in a special ''onsen'' hot spring at Hakodate City Tropical Garden in the northernmost Japanese main island of Hokkaido on Dec. 14, 2009. About 100 monkeys at the park soaked in the pool, some all day long, after park officials filled it with hot water from a nearby hot spa resort.

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Comedian Hazama enters Asia on run-and-sail Earth Marathon

ISTANBUL, Turkey - Japanese comedian Kampei Hazama (C), now on a run-and-sail trip around the world, poses with some Japanese people living in Turkey after entering the Asian part of Istanbul from the European side by crossing the Bosphorus Bridge on Dec. 14, 2009. The 60-year-old comedian left Osaka in western Japan on Dec. 17, 2008, for his Earth Marathon covering 20,000 kilometers on land and 16,000 km at sea.

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Xi Jinping

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken on Dec. 14, 2009 shows Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping.

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Hatoyama, Xi agree to deepen Japan-China strategic ties

TOKYO, Japan - Visiting Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (L) talks with Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Dec. 14, 2009. They agreed to deepen the two countries' strategic, mutually beneficial relations.

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Japan to formulate U.S. base relocation policy on Tues.

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama speaks about the issue of relocating the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station in Okinawa Prefecture to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Dec. 14, 2009. Hatoyama said the government will decide its policy on the issue on Dec. 15.

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Japan, Uruguay to work together for success of Copenhagen forum

TOKYO, Japan - Visiting Uruguayan President Tabare Ramon Vazquez Rosas (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama shake hands at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Dec. 14, 2009, before their talks.

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Comedian Hazama enters Asia on run-and-sail Earth Marathon

ISTANBUL, Turkey - Japanese comedian Kampei Hazama, now on a run-and-sail trip around the world, celebrates after entering the Asian part of Istanbul from the European side by crossing the Bosphorus Bridge on Dec. 14, 2009. The 60-year-old comedian left Osaka in western Japan on Dec. 17, 2008, for his Earth Marathon covering 20,000 kilometers on land and 16,000 km at sea.

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Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Visiting Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (R) and Japan's House of Representatives Speaker Takahiro Yokomichi unveil the name plate of the Chinese cultural center in Tokyo during its opening ceremony on Dec. 14, 2009. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Junior golfers busy learning tax system

CHIBA, Japan - Erina Hara and other junior professional golfers take lessons on the tax system in Chiba on Dec. 14, 2009. Shin Ji Yai, this year's money champion in the U.S. tour who also played in Japan, was also among the 74 ''students,'' mainly players in their first and second years in the event.

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Court dismisses damages claim over 1945 Tokyo air raids

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Hoshino, the representative of 131 plaintiffs who filed a damage suit against the state over the 1945 U.S. air raids on Tokyo, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Dec. 14, 2009, after the Tokyo District Court dismissed the suit, saying almost all people suffered in World War II.

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DPJ's Ozawa denies influence over emperor's meeting

TOKYO, Japan - Ichiro Ozawa, secretary general of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, listens to a reporter's question during a news conference at the DPJ's headquarters in Tokyo on Dec. 14, 2009. Ozawa denied he wielded any influence in arranging a controversial meeting between Emperor Akihito and Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping.

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3 go missing while fishing at breakwater in Ibaraki Pref.

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Dec. 14, 2009, shows the breakwater at Kashima Port in Kamisu, Ibaraki Prefecture, where three people believed to have been fishing on Dec. 12 have gone missing. Although the breakwater is a roped-off area, many people trespass there to go fishing.

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Hatoyama meets with Chinese Vice Pres. Xi

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (R) and Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping shake hands at the premier's office in Tokyo on Dec. 14, 2009, prior to their talks.

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Thaksin, Hun Sen meet in Cambodia

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Deposed Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (R) shakes hands with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Dec. 14, 2009, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Thaksin, who was appointed as an economic adviser to Hun Sen and his government in October, met the previous day with a Thai man who was convicted of spying in Cambodia and later freed.

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Hatoyama meets with Chinese Vice Pres. Xi

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (R) and Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping shake hands at the premier's office in Tokyo on Dec. 14, 2009, prior to their talks.

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3 go missing while fishing at breakwater in Ibaraki Pref.

TOKYO, Japan - Rescue workers from police and coast guard search for three people who went missing at Kashima Port in Kamisu, Ibaraki Prefecture on Dec. 14, 2009. The three are believed to have been fishing, possibly on a breakwater, on the evening of Dec. 12.