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Venezuelan President Chavez

CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez receives leaders from countries participating in the Latin American and Caribbean summit in Caracas on Dec. 2, 2011.

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UNDP to expand support for Myanmar

TOKYO, Japan - Helen Clark, administrator of the U.N. Development Program, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on Dec. 2, 2011. The UNDP will offer more support to Myanmar as significant political changes have taken place in the country, she said.

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Cuban, Venezuelan presidents

CARACAS, Venezuela - Cuban President Raul Castro (R) and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez are pictured during a summit of Latin American and Caribbean nations in Caracas, Venezuela, on Dec. 2, 2011.

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Defense Minister Ichikawa

NAHA, Japan - Japanese Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa leaves the site of his press conference in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, in southern Japan on the night of Dec. 2, 2011. He held the conference after meeting with Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima at the prefectural government office in Naha to offer an apology over an indiscreet comment made by one of his ministry's officials. In reference to the government's plan to relocate a key U.S. military base in Okinawa, Satoshi Tanaka, chief of the Okinawa Defense Bureau, allegedly used a Japanese term implying an act of sexual violence against women.

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Protests in Naha

NAHA, Japan - People demonstrate in front of the Okinawa prefectural government office in Naha on the night of Dec. 2, 2011, to protest against an indiscreet comment made by a senior Defense Ministry official. In reference to the government's plan to relocate a key U.S. military base in Okinawa, Satoshi Tanaka, chief of the Okinawa Defense Bureau, allegedly used a Japanese term implying an act of sexual violence against women.

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Excessive cesium levels found in more Fukushima rice

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Yoshihito Suzuki (L), chief of the Fukushima prefectural government's agriculture and fisheries department, holds a press conference in the city of Fukushima on the night of Dec. 2, 2011, to announce that excessive levels of radioactive cesium have been detected in rice harvested at more farms in the city.

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Protests in Naha

NAHA, Japan - People demonstrate in front of the Okinawa prefectural government office in Naha on the night of Dec. 2, 2011, to protest against an indiscreet comment made by a senior Defense Ministry official. In reference to the government's plan to relocate a key U.S. military base in Okinawa, Satoshi Tanaka, chief of the Okinawa Defense Bureau, allegedly used a Japanese term implying an act of sexual violence against women.

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Okinawa Gov. Nakaima

NAHA, Japan - Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima speaks with reporters after meeting with Japanese Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa at the prefectural government office in Naha on the night of Dec. 2, 2011. Ichikawa visited the governor to offer an apology over an indiscreet comment made by one of his ministry's officials. In reference to the government's plan to relocate a key U.S. military base in Okinawa, Satoshi Tanaka, chief of the Okinawa Defense Bureau, allegedly used a Japanese term implying an act of sexual violence against women.

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Presents delivered to nuclear evacuees

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Hiroaki Saiuchi (R), an 18-year-old high school student in Date, Fukushima Prefecture, in northeastern Japan, delivers presents in Santa Clause costume to evacuees from the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant at temporary housing in Date on Dec. 2, 2011. Saiuchi is set to join the Hanshin Tigers professional baseball club as a pitcher.

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Defense minister apologizes to Okinawa gov.

NAHA, Japan - Japanese Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa (L) bows deeply to Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima (R front) in a gesture of apology over an indiscreet comment made by one of his ministry's officials at the prefectural government office in Naha on the night of Dec. 2, 2011. In reference to the government's plan to relocate a key U.S. military base in Okinawa, Satoshi Tanaka, chief of the Okinawa Defense Bureau, allegedly used a Japanese term implying an act of sexual violence against women.

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Defense minister apologizes to Okinawa gov.

NAHA, Japan - Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima (R) stands up to terminate a meeting with Japanese Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa (L) at the prefectural government office in Naha on the night of Dec. 2, 2011. Ichikawa visited the governor to offer an apology over an indiscreet comment made by one of his ministry's officials. In reference to the government's plan to relocate a key U.S. military base in Okinawa, Satoshi Tanaka, chief of the Okinawa Defense Bureau, allegedly used a Japanese term implying an act of sexual violence against women.

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Industry minister Edano

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Yukio Edano gives a speech at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Dec. 2, 2011.

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Electric vehicle supplies power to house

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Motors Corp. displays its prototype MiEV House, in which an electric vehicle can supply power to a house, at the Tokyo Motor Show on Dec. 2, 2011, at Tokyo Big Sight in Tokyo's Koto Ward.

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Toy poodles authorized as police dogs

TOTTORI, Japan - Toy poodles Karin (L) and Fuga attend an induction ceremony on Dec. 2, 2011, at the Tottori prefectural police headquarters in the city of Tottori, western Japan, to work as police dogs. The dogs are to be employed in duties including criminal investigations and search operations for a year from January 2012.

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Total CEO de Margerie

TOKYO, Japan - Christophe de Margerie, chief executive officer of French oil giant Total, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on Dec. 2, 2011. He said Total and Japan's Inpex Corp. are expected to reach a final agreement by the end of 2011 to invest in a gas field development project off Australia.

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Japan's oldest person dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in September 2010 shows Chiyono Hasegawa, who died Dec. 2, 2011, at the age of 115 in a nursing home in Saga Prefecture, southwestern Japan. She was Japan's oldest person. The government said Jirouemon Kimura, a 114-year-old man in Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, is now the country's oldest person.

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Snow on Great Wall

BEIJING, China - The Great Wall of China on the outskirts of Beijing is lightly dusted with snow on Dec. 2, 2011, when the Chinese capital had the first snowfall of the season.

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Snow in Beijing

BEIJING, China - A woman slips on the snow at the Palace Museum in Beijing on Dec. 2, 2011. The Chinese capital had the first snowfall of the season that day.

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Snow in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Children (front) wearing panda hats look at the snow at the Palace Museum in Beijing on Dec. 2, 2011. The Chinese capital had the first snowfall of the season that day.

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Japan, China strategic talks

BEIJING, China - Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Kenichiro Sasae (L) and Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun (R) meet for a bilateral strategic dialogue in Beijing on Dec. 2, 2011. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Explosion at Chiba factory injures 4

CHIBA, Japan - A photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a JFE Chemical Corp. factory in the city of Chiba, east of Tokyo after an explosion on Dec. 2, 2011. Four workers were injured.

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Japan, China strategic talks

BEIJING, China - Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Kenichiro Sasae (R) and Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun shake hands before a bilateral strategic dialogue in Beijing on Dec. 2, 2011. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Explosion at Chiba factory injures 4

CHIBA, Japan - A photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a JFE Chemical Corp. factory in the city of Chiba, east of Tokyo after an explosion on Dec. 2, 2011. Four workers were injured.

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Tokyo Motor Show opening ceremony

TOKYO, Japan - An opening ceremony is held for the Tokyo Motor Show at the Tokyo Big Sight complex in the Japanese capital on Dec. 2, 2011, before the event opens for the public the following day.