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Yuzu bathing in Fukushima Pref.

A man bathes with yuzu citrus fruits at the Tenjinmisaki hot spring on Dec. 21, 2024, in Fukushima Prefecture's Naraha, which was previously designated as an evacuation zone after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis. Bathing with yuzu on the winter solstice is a Japanese tradition.

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Yuzu bathing in Fukushima Pref.

A man bathes with yuzu citrus fruits at the Tenjinmisaki hot spring on Dec. 21, 2024, in Fukushima Prefecture's Naraha, which was previously designated as an evacuation zone after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis. Bathing with yuzu on the winter solstice is a Japanese tradition.

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Graduation ceremony held for popular monkey group in Nikko

UTSUNOMIYA, Japan - A popular group of monkeys attend a "graduation ceremony" at the Nikko Saru Gundan theme park in Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture, on Dec. 21, 2013. The park opened in 1992 in Nikko, one of the most popular tourist destinations in Japan, and became popular because of the monkey performances. But it will close at the end of this year because foreign monkey trainers left Japan after the devastating 2011 earthquake.

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China's Xi, Vietnam's Trong

HANOI, Vietnam - Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (L) shakes hands with Vietnamese Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong at the party's headquarters in Hanoi on Dec. 21, 2011. (Pool photo)

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China's Xi, Vietnam's Trong

HANOI, Vietnam - Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (L) holds talks with Vietnamese Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong at the party's headquarters in Hanoi on Dec. 21, 2011. (Pool photo)

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DPJ lawmaker Saito to leave DPJ

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken Sept. 21, 2008, shows House of Representatives member Yasunori Saito of the Democratic Party of Japan. Saito said Dec. 27, 2011, in his blog that he will leave the ruling party to protest DPJ leader and Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's intention to raise the consumption tax and join talks on a U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement.

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Power vacuum unlikely in N. Korea after Kim Jong Il's death: expert

ATHENS, United States - Han S. Park, 72, a professor at the University of Georgia who has visited North Korea more than 50 times, talks about the country's prospects following the death of its leader Kim Jong Il during an interview with Kyodo News on Dec. 21, 2011 in Athens, Georgia.

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Fixing disaster-hit Shinto shrine before New Year

SENDAI, Japan - Volunteer workers on Dec. 21, 2011, clean and repair the surroundings of the Koganeyama Shrine, a Shinto shrine on an island off the Oshika Peninsula, Miyagi Prefecture hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami as well as by a typhoon, prior to the New Year. Many people in Japan customarily visit Shinto shrines on New Year's Day.

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Wrongly designed Chinese flag in Vietnam

HANOI, Vietnam - A girl holds a wrongly designed Chinese national flag, with one too many small stars, during a ceremony to welcome Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping in Hanoi on Dec. 21, 2011. (Pool Photo)

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Yemen capital

SANAA, Yemen - People walk past a barricade and barbed wire fences placed near a government facility in Sanaa, Yemen's capital, on Dec. 21, 2011.

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Citizens mourn Kim's death

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Women engaged in traffic control grieve in front of a portrait of North Korea's late leader Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang on Dec. 21, 2011.

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N. Korean soldiers at a dock

DANDONG, China - Photo taken from the Chinese border city of Dandong shows North Korean soldiers working at a dock in North Korea on Dec. 21, 2011.

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Citizens mourn before Kim's portrait

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Citizens gather in front of a portrait of North Korea's late leader Kim Jong Il to mourn his death in Pyongyang on Dec. 21, 2011. North Korea has displayed a new portrait of its late leader Kim Jong Il at six locations in Pyongyang since his death.

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Citizens mourn before Kim's portrait

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Citizens gather in front of a portrait of North Korea's late leader Kim Jong Il to mourn his death in Pyongyang on Dec. 21, 2011. North Korea has displayed a new portrait of its late leader Kim Jong Il at six locations in Pyongyang since his death.

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N. Korean defectors protest against N. Korea

PAJU, South Korea - People including defectors from North Korea protest against the North Korean government in Paju's Imjingak, South Korea, on Dec. 21, 2011.

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Ex-wrestler Ueda dies

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in February 2002 shows former Japanese wrestler Umanosuke Ueda. Ueda died at a hospital in Usuki, Oita Prefecture, on Dec. 21, 2011. He was 71.

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Japan striker Havenaar

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Japan striker Mike Havenaar. Havenaar will join Dutch first-division club Vitesse, his relegated J-League side Ventforet Kofu said Dec. 21, 2011.

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Citizens mourn before Kim's portrait

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Citizens gather in front of a portrait of North Korea's late leader Kim Jong Il to mourn his death in Pyongyang on Dec. 21, 2011. North Korea has displayed a new portrait of its late leader Kim Jong Il at six locations in Pyongyang since his death.

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Portraits of Kim Jong Il displayed in N. Korean capital

PYONGYANG, North Korea - People gather in front of a portrait of North Korea's late leader Kim Jong Il to mourn his death in Pyongyang on Dec. 21, 2011. North Korea has displayed large portraits of its late leader Kim Jong Il at six locations in Pyongyang.

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Tokio Marine President Sumi

TOKYO, Japan - Tokio Marine Holdings Inc. President Shuzo Sumi speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 21, 2011. Tokio Marine said the same day it has agreed to acquire Delphi Financial Group Inc., a U.S. life, property and casualty insurance group.

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China's Xi, Vietnam's Nguyen

HANOI, Vietnam - China's Vice President Xi Jinping (L) and Nguyen Phu Trong, secretary general of the Communist Party of Vietnam's Central Committee, shake hands in Hanoi on Dec. 21, 2011. During his first visit to Vietnam since he took office in 2008, Xi met President Truong Tan Sang the same day and was scheduled to meet Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung the following day. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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N. Korean soldiers at a dock

DANDONG, China - Photo taken from the Chinese border city of Dandong shows North Korean soldiers working at a dock in North Korea on Dec. 21, 2011. North Korea appears to have blocked mobile phone services in areas bordering China since the announcement of the death of its leader Kim Jong Il on Dec. 19, 2011, Chinese traders said Dec. 21, 2011.

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Cyclist in N. Korea

DANDONG, China - Photo taken from the Chinese border city of Dandong shows a man on a bicycle riding past a North Korean flag flying at half mast in North Korea on Dec. 21, 2011. North Korea announced the death of its leader Kim Jong Il on Dec. 19, 2011.

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Hasebe donates 45 mil. yen for children in Minamisanriku

SENDAI, Japan - Japanese footballer Makoto Hasebe (R), who currently plays for Wolfsburg in Germany, hands a soccer ball to Takahiro Ojima, the principal of a kindergarten in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on Dec. 21, 2011. Hasebe has decided to donate 45 million yen to the Japan Committee for UNICEF for the reconstruction of the kindergarten damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and to support children affected by the disaster.

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BOJ chief Shirakawa at press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa gives a press conference at the BOJ head office in Tokyo on Dec. 21, 2011. The Bank of Japan said in its statement that the pickup in Japan's economic activity has paused amid a slowdown in overseas economies and the strong yen.

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Magician invited to Kim Jong Il's funeral

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Japanese magician Tenko Hikita. Her manager said Dec. 21, 2011, that North Korea has invited her to attend the funeral of its leader Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang on Dec. 28.

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Chinese boat taken to Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - A Chinese fishing boat (C) sandwiched by Japan Coast Guard vessels is moored at Nagasaki port in Nagasaki Prefecture on Dec. 21, 2011. Its skipper Zhong Jinyin was arrested the previous day on suspicion of illegally operating in Japanese territorial waters off the Goto Islands in the southwestern Japanese prefecture.

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Ministers Edano, Hosono at news conference

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese industry minister Yukio Edano (L) and nuclear disaster minister Goshi Hosono give a press conference at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in Tokyo on Dec. 21, 2011. The government and Tokyo Electric Power Co. said they would seek to finish scrapping the four crippled nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in the next 30 to 40 years in a road map toward decommissioning.

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Portrait believed to be of Japanese abductee Yokota, her family

TOKYO, Japan - Photo apparently shows Megumi Yokota (R), who was abducted from Japan by North Korea, Kim Young Nam (L), a South Korean abductee who is believed to have married Yokota, and their daughter Kim Eun Gyong (Hye Gyong). Kim Young Nam was abducted in 1978 after Kim Jong Il ordered the abduction of young South Koreans, sources related to the South Korean government said Dec. 21, 2011, two days after North Korea announced the death of its leader Kim Jong Il.

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Rankings for January sumo meet

MATSUDO, Japan - Kisenosato indicates his promotion to ozeki in a list of sumo rankings in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, on Dec. 21, 2011. The Japan Sumo Association released the new rankings the same day for the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament in Tokyo in January.

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Olympus raided

TOKYO, Japan - Prosecutors head to the apartment of former Olympus Corp. Chairman and President Tsuyoshi Kikukawa in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, for a search on Dec. 21, 2011. Investigators searched offices and locations related to Olympus the same day on suspicion of falsification of financial reports in connection with the coverup of the company's massive investment losses.

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Softbank's Son

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken Nov. 21, 2011, in Tokyo shows Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of Softbank Corp. Son was chosen as the best company president of 2011 for the second consecutive year in an Internet survey of corporate executives in Japan, the Sanno Institute of Management said Dec. 15, 2011.

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Opening ceremony for extra Diet session

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (top) attends the opening ceremony of a 51-day extraordinary Diet session in the main hall of the House of Councillors in Tokyo on Oct. 21, 2011. The session, from Oct. 20 to Dec. 9, 2011, will discuss a 12.10 trillion yen fiscal 2011 third extra budget to finance full-fledged reconstruction of areas ravaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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1st Auntie Anne's Pretzels store in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - An employee holds up soft pretzels at an outlet of Auntie Anne's Pretzels in Tokyo's Ikebukuro district on Dec. 21, 2011. The first outlet of the American pretzel chain store operator in Japan has been attracting many customers seeking the taste of soft pretzels not commonly found in the country.

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Comedian completes Eurasia leg of global marathon

QINGDAO, China - Japanese comedian Kampei Hazama arrives at a port in Qingdao in Shandong Province, eastern China, on Dec. 27, 2010, completing the Eurasia leg of his run-and-sail ''Earth marathon.'' He is aiming to complete his round the world trip in Osaka on Jan. 21, 2011.

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Kabuki mogul apologizes for Ebizo's layoff

NAGOYA, Japan - Kabuki mogul Ichikawa Danjuro speaks at a press conference at the Misonoza theater in Nagoya on Dec. 21, 2010. Danjuro apologized for the expected absence of his eldest son Ebizo from a show at the theater planned for February 2011 in the wake of a brawl incident.

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Rankings for New Year Grand Sumo Tournament

TOKYO, Japan - Grand champion Hakuho smiles during a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 21, 2010, after the rankings for the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament were released. The Mongolian yokozuna aims to capture his sixth consecutive tournament title at the upcoming tournament starting Jan. 9, 2011.

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Rankings for New Year Grand Sumo Tournament

TOKYO, Japan - Grand champion Hakuho holds a table of the rankings for the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament in Tokyo on Dec. 21, 2010. The Mongolian yokozuna aims to capture his sixth consecutive tournament title at the upcoming tournament beginning Jan. 9, 2011.

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Astronaut Furukawa smiles after Soyuz's liftoff from Kazakhstan

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa smiles as he speaks to reporters after Russia's spacecraft Soyuz TMA-17 successfully lifted off from Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on Dec. 21, 2009, carrying Japan's astronaut Soichi Noguchi and two others, heading for the International Space Station. Furukawa, who is a backup for Noguchi, is scheduled to travel to the station by Soyoz in 2011.