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Tokyo Sea Life Park

TOKYO, Japan - Naoaki Kawahara, a fish keeper at Tokyo Sea Life Park, explains about icefish with photos of its anatomy at the aquarium in Tokyo's Edogawa Ward on Dec. 14, 2012.

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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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Quake-hit firm's greeting cards

SENDAI, Japan - Photo shows greeting cards of Konno Printing Co. at its head office in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture on Dec. 14, 2012. The company hit by the March 2011 quake plans overseas sales of the cards designed by emerging Japanese artists.

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Faults at Higashidori nuclear plant

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken Dec. 14, 2012, shows a panel of experts conducting a survey on a geologic fault called F-9 (marked with white dots) at Tohoku Electric Power Co.'s Higashidori atomic power plant in Aomori Prefecture. The panel agreed Dec. 20, 2012, that faults under the nuclear plant are likely to be active, rejecting earlier arguments by the utility.

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U.S. school shooting

NEWTOWN, United States - Photo shows a family who came to St. Rose of Lima Church in Newtown, Connecticut, on Dec. 14, 2012, to attend a mass to mourn for the victims of a mass shooting at a local elementary school earlier that day. A gunman killed 26 people, including 20 children, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history.

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U.S. school shooting

NEWTOWN, United States - Photo shows people at St. Rose of Lima Church in Newtown, Connecticut, on Dec. 14, 2012, after a mass to mourn for the victims of a mass shooting at a local elementary school earlier that day. A gunman killed 26 people, including 20 children, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history.

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U.S. school shooting

NEWTOWN, United States - Photo shows a little girl and a man who came to St. Rose of Lima Church in Newtown, Connecticut, on Dec. 14, 2012, to attend a mass to mourn for the victims of a mass shooting at a local elementary school earlier that day. A gunman killed 26 people, including 20 children, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history.

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U.S. school shooting

NEWTOWN, United States - People gather at St. Rose of Lima Church in Newtown, Connecticut, on Dec. 14, 2012, to attend a mass to mourn for the victims of a mass shooting at a local elementary school earlier that day. A gunman killed 26 people, including 20 children, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history.

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U.S. school shooting

NEWTOWN, United States - An ambulance enters the parking lot of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, on Dec. 14, 2012. A gunman killed 26 people, including 20 children, at the school the same day in one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history.

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N. Korea celebrates rocket launch

TOKYO, Japan - A rally is held in Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang on Dec. 14, 2012, to celebrate North Korea's successful launch of an "earth observation satellite" on Dec. 12. Japan, the United States and other countries suspect the launch was a covert test of long-range missile technology in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

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U.S. school shooting

NEWTOWN, United States - Police officers stand guard in front of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, on Dec. 14, 2012. A gunman killed 26 people, including 20 children, at the school earlier that day in one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history.

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U.S. school shooting

NEWTOWN, United States - Police officers patrol near Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, on Dec. 14, 2012. A gunman killed 26 people, including 20 children, at the school earlier that day in one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history.

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N. Korea celebrates rocket launch

TOKYO, Japan - A rally is held in Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang on Dec. 14, 2012, to celebrate North Korea's successful launch of an "earth observation satellite" on Dec. 12. Japan, the United States and other countries suspect the launch was a covert test of long-range missile technology in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

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IAEA chief visits Fukushima

NARAHA, Japan - International Atomic Energy Agency chief Yukiya Amano answers reporters' questions in Naraha, Fukushima Prefecture, on Dec. 14, 2012, after visiting the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, the focus of a nuclear crisis triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011.

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U.S. nuclear regulator in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission chief Allison Macfarlane (L) and Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority chief Shunichi Tanaka shake hands in Tokyo on Dec. 14, 2012. They agreed to enhance cooperation.

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Regulator suggests active faults beneath Higashidori plant

HIGASHIDORI, Japan - A research team of Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority examines a fault in a trench on the premises of the Higashidori nuclear power plant site in Aomori Prefecture on Dec. 14, 2012. NRA Commissioner Kunihiko Shimazaki said the same day that faults beneath the plant site could be active and dangerous. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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N. Korea celebrates rocket launch

PYONGYANG, North Korea - A rally is held in Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang on Dec. 14, 2012, to celebrate North Korea's successful launch of an "earth observation satellite" on Dec. 12. Japan, the United States and other countries suspect the launch was a covert test of long-range missile technology in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

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Regulator suggests active faults beneath Higashidori plant

HIGASHIDORI, Japan - A research team of Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority examines a fault in a trench on the premises of the Higashidori nuclear power plant site in Aomori Prefecture on Dec. 14, 2012. NRA Commissioner Kunihiko Shimazaki said the same day that faults beneath the plant site could be active and dangerous. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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N. Korea celebrates rocket launch

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Kim Yong Nam (far R), president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of North Korea, is seen during a rally in Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang on Dec. 14, 2012, to celebrate North Korea's successful launch of an "earth observation satellite" on Dec. 12. Japan, the United States and other countries suspect the launch was a covert test of long-range missile technology in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

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N. Korea celebrates rocket launch

PYONGYANG, North Korea - People participate in a rally in Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang on Dec. 14, 2012, to celebrate North Korea's successful launch of an "earth observation satellite" on Dec. 12. Japan, the United States and other countries suspect the launch was a covert test of long-range missile technology in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

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N. Koreas says Kim Jong Un ordered launch

PYONGYANG, North Korea - The Dec. 14, 2012, edition of the Rodong Sinmun, the newspaper of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, carries a photo on its front page of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (top) ordering the launch of a "satellite" on Dec. 12 as well as a photo of his handwriting that says the party leadership "approves a satellite launch."

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N. Korea celebrates rocket launch

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Military personnel applaud in front of a slogan praising North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a rally in Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang on Dec. 14, 2012, to celebrate North Korea's successful launch of an "earth observation satellite" on Dec. 12. Japan, the United States and other countries suspect the launch was a covert test of long-range missile technology in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

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N. Korea celebrates rocket launch

PYONGYANG, North Korea - People applaud at a rally in Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang on Dec. 14, 2012, to celebrate North Korea's successful launch of an "earth observation satellite" on Dec. 12. Japan, the United States and other countries suspect the launch was a covert test of long-range missile technology in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

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Regulator suggests active faults beneath Higashidori plant

HIGASHIDORI, Japan - A research team of Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority examines a fault in a trench on the premises of the Higashidori nuclear power plant site in Aomori Prefecture on Dec. 14, 2012. NRA Commissioner Kunihiko Shimazaki said the same day that faults beneath the plant site could be active and dangerous. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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N. Korea celebrates rocket launch

PYONGYANG, North Korea - People participate in a rally in Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang on Dec. 14, 2012, to celebrate North Korea's successful launch of an "earth observation satellite" on Dec. 12. Japan, the United States and other countries suspect the launch was a covert test of long-range missile technology in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

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Toyota unit starts operating engine plant in northeast

TAIWA, Japan - Photo taken Dec. 14, 2012, shows Toyota Motor East Japan Inc.'s new plant in Taiwa, Miyagi Prefecture, where the company began manufacturing engines for its popular hybrid vehicle Aqua the same day.

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N. Korea's rocket launch

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Photo shows a written order regarding North Korea's rocket launch on Dec. 12, 2012, given earlier that day by the country's leader Kim Jong Un. Kim gave a final written order to the Korean Committee of Space Technology, the North's official Korean Central News Agency reported Dec. 14, 2012.

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Japan to hold general election Dec. 16 after Noda dissolves Diet

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda during a one-on-one party leaders' debate with Shinzo Abe, president of the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party, in parliament in Tokyo on Nov. 14, 2012. During the debate, Noda said he could conditionally dissolve the House of Representatives on Nov. 16, later setting Dec. 16 as the date for a general election.

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Japan to hold general election Dec. 16 after Noda dissolves Diet

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (R) and Shinzo Abe (L), president of the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party, during their one-on-one debate as party leaders in parliament in Tokyo on Nov. 14, 2012. During the debate, Noda said he could conditionally dissolve the House of Representatives on Nov. 16, later setting Dec. 16 as the date for a general election.

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Japan to hold general election Dec. 16 after Noda dissolves Diet

TOKYO, Japan - Combination photo shows Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (R) and Shinzo Abe (L), president of the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party, during their one-on-one debate as party leaders in parliament in Tokyo on Nov. 14, 2012. During the debate, Noda said he could conditionally dissolve the House of Representatives on Nov. 16, later setting Dec. 16 as the date for a general election.