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Unseen parts of Imperial Palace to open to public

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in October 2010 shows the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. The Imperial Household Agency said Dec. 16, 2013, that it will open parts of the palace previously inaccessible to the public in the spring and fall of 2014 to commemorate Emperor Akihito's 80th birthday, which falls on Dec. 23, 2013.

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JVC's video camera with 40x optical zoom lens

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the Everio GZ-HM670 video camera equipped with a 40x optical zoom lens and a 32-gigabyte memory, which Victor Co. of Japan Ltd. released in Japan on Dec. 16, 2010 for about 80,000 yen.

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Controversial 'Gundam' statue in China park

CHENGDU, China - A statue similar to the Gundam combat robot from the Japanese anime series stands in the Floraland amusement park in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, on Dec. 16, 2010. Sotsu Co., the Tokyo company managing the copyright of Gundam's images, is looking into the origin of the statue.

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Well at Meiji Shrine said to be 'power spot'

TOKYO, Japan - Visitors take pictures of ''Kiyomasa no Ido'' (Kiyomasa's well) with their cellphones in a garden of Tokyo's Meiji Shrine on Dec. 16, 2010. The site became famous as a ''power spot,'' after television programs featured it with people claiming their luck improved when they used pictures of the well as background screens on their cellphones.

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Nippon Sharyo to build U.S. diesel train cars

NAGOYA, Japan - An artist rendering shows the inside of a train car of the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit agency in California that Nippon Sharyo Ltd. plans to manufacture. Japan's largest rolling stock maker said Dec. 16, 2010, that it has won an order for 18 cars of the train.

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Nishioka to sign deal with Twins

NARITA, Japan - Lotte Marines shortstop Tsuyoshi Nishioka (C) leaves for the United States from Narita airport on Dec. 16, 2010, for a checkup before signing a deal with the Minnesota Twins. Walking ahead of him was his wife Naoko, a fashion model.

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Paloma Industries HQ

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo shows the headquarters of water heater maker Paloma Industries Ltd. in Nagoya on Dec. 16, 2010. The company came under fire for failing to address defects in its products, which killed a total of 21 people in Japan over 20 years through 2005. The sign on the top of the building reads ''Paloma.''

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Paloma Industries HQ

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo shows the headquarters of water heater maker Paloma Industries Ltd. in Nagoya on Dec. 16, 2010. The company came under fire for failing to address defects in its products, which killed a total of 21 people in Japan over 20 years through 2005. The sign on the top of the building reads ''Paloma.''

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Bill Richardson in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson arrives at Pyongyang international airport on Dec. 16, 2010, for meetings with First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan and other North Korean officials.

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Nippon Sharyo to build U.S. diesel train cars

NAGOYA, Japan - An artist rendering shows the diesel train of the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit agency in California that Nippon Sharyo Ltd. plans to manufacture. Japan's largest rolling stock maker said Dec. 16, 2010, that it has won an order for 18 cars of the train.

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Bill Richardson in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson arrives at Pyongyang international airport on Dec. 16, 2010, for meetings with First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan and other North Korean officials.

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Paloma Industries HQ

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo shows the headquarters of water heater maker Paloma Industries Ltd. in Nagoya on Dec. 16, 2010. The company came under fire for failing to address defects in its products, which killed a total of 21 people in Japan over 20 years through 2005. The sign on the top of the building reads ''Paloma.''

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Nishioka to sign deal with Twins

NARITA, Japan - Lotte Marines shortstop Tsuyoshi Nishioka speaks to reporters at Narita airport on Dec. 16, 2010, on leaving for the United States for a checkup before signing a deal with the Minnesota Twins.

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Students' parents remove turf in school yard

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken Dec. 16, 2010, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the yard of Haruki Junior High School in Kishiwada, Osaka. Parents of students who are members of baseball or softball clubs at the city government-run school removed the lawn from the field without permission after claiming it was hard for their children to practice on the bumpy ground.

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Kan, IAEA chief Amano meet in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) and Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, shake hands at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Dec. 16, 2010. Amano told Kan it is important for IAEA inspectors to visit nuclear sites in North Korea, and asked for support in convincing North Korea to accept IAEA inspections.

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Honda to lease electric scooter to firms

TOKYO, Japan - Honda Motor Co. President Takanobu Ito poses aboard the EV-neo electric scooter in Tokyo on Dec. 16, 2010. Honda plans to lease the scooters to designated companies from Dec. 24 to collect data before launching the model for the general market.

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Winter illuminations light up Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - People walk on a street lit up by winter illuminations in Osaka's Kita Ward on Dec. 11, 2010. The illumination event runs through Jan. 16, 2011.

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Ozawa lets loose in parliament

TOKYO, Japan - Ichiro Ozawa, Japan's top power broker, appears relaxed during a meeting with other lawmakers in parliament on Dec. 16, 2009. Ozawa, secretary general of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's ruling Democratic Party of Japan, played a key role in the party's work to draft a fiscal 2010 budget request the party submitted to the government the same day.