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Football legend Pele dies at 82

File photo taken in October 2011 shows Pele mingling with Japanese elementary school students in Natori, a northeastern Japan city heavily damaged by the earthquake-tsunami disaster in March 2011. The Brazilian football legend died at 82 on Dec. 29, 2022, after a battle with colon cancer.

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J2 club Kyoto reach Emperor's Cup final

TOKYO, Japan - Kyoto Sanga's Yuya Kubo (L) scores in an Emperor's Cup semifinal against Yokohama F Marinos in Tokyo on Dec. 29, 2011. Kyoto's 4-2 extra time victory over Yokohama set up a historic final between J-League second division teams as Kyoto face J2 champions FC Tokyo on New Year's Day at Tokyo's National Stadium.

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Search for missing victims of March disaster

MINAMISOMA, Japan - A firefighter searches for remains of people who have been missing since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami at a fishing port in the town of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, on Dec. 29, 2011. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant crippled by the disaster is seen in the background.

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J2 club Kyoto reach Emperor's Cup final

TOKYO, Japan - Kyoto Sanga's Brazilian forward Dutra scores from a free kick in an Emperor's Cup semifinal against Yokohama F Marinos in Tokyo on Dec. 29, 2011. Kyoto's 4-2 extra time victory over Yokohama set up a historic final between J-League second division teams as Kyoto face J2 champions FC Tokyo on New Year's Day at Tokyo's National Stadium.

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Search for missing victims of March disaster

MINAMISOMA, Japan - A police officer of the Fukushima prefectural police searches for remains of people who have been missing since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami at a fishing port in the town of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, on Dec. 29, 2011. A police helicopter takes part in the operation from the sky.

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Search for missing victims of March disaster

MINAMISOMA, Japan - Police officers of the Fukushima prefectural police search for remains of people who have been missing since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami at a fishing port in the town of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, on Dec. 29, 2011.

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Search in Fukushima

MINAMISOMA, Japan - Police officers search for bodies of people missing since the March 2011 quake and tsunami, at a port in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, on Dec. 29, 2011. They are clad in protective suits against the backdrop of the exhaust towers of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.

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FC Tokyo reach Emperor's Cup final

OSAKA, Japan - Tatsuya Yazawa of FC Tokyo (back) scores the winner in a 1-0 victory over Cerezo Osaka in an Emperor's Cup semifinal in Osaka on Dec. 29, 2011. Tokyo, the J-League second division champions, will face Kyoto Sanga in a historic Emperor's Cup final by two J2 teams on New Year's Day at Tokyo's National Stadium.

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N. Koreans in China mourn Kim Jong Il

BEIJING, China - North Korean women leave the country's embassy in Beijing after attending a memorial service for the late leader Kim Jong Il on Dec. 29, 2011.

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Residential area hit by flash flooding in Philippines

CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines - Aerial photo taken on Dec. 29, 2011, shows a residential area along the Cagayan River devastated by storm-triggered flash flooding in Cagayan de Oro on Mindanao Island, the Philippines.

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Residential area hit by flash flooding in Philippines

CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines - Aerial photo taken on Dec. 29, 2011, shows a residential area devastated by storm-triggered flash flooding in Cagayan de Oro on Mindanao Island, the Philippines.

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Residential area hit by flash flooding in Philippines

CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines - Aerial photo taken on Dec. 29, 2011, shows a residential area devastated by storm-triggered flash flooding in Cagayan de Oro on Mindanao Island, the Philippines.

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New Year holiday exodus

KANSAI AIRPORT, Japan - The departure lobby is crowded with New Year holidaymakers heading overseas at Kansai International Airport near Osaka on Dec. 29, 2011.

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N. Koreans in Japan mourn Kim Jong Il

TOKYO, Japan - A woman (front) cries as she and other mourners offer red carnations during a memorial service for North Korea's late leader Kim Jong Il, held by the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, a North Korean-affiliated organization known as Chongryon, at a hall in Tokyo's Kita Ward on Dec. 29, 2011.

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N. Koreans in China mourn Kim Jong Il

BEIJING, China - North Koreans head for the country's embassy in Beijing on Dec. 29, 2011, to attend a memorial service for the late leader Kim Jong Il.

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N. Koreans in Japan mourn Kim Jong Il

TOKYO, Japan - A memorial service for North Korea's late leader Kim Jong Il is held by the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, a North Korean-affiliated organization known as Chongryon, at a hall in Tokyo's Kita Ward on Dec. 29, 2011.

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Euro tumbles against yen

TOKYO, Japan - A display at the Tokyo office of money broker Gaitame.com Co. shows the euro trading at the 100 yen level on the morning of Dec. 29, 2011. The euro briefly fell to 100.35 yen in Tokyo the same day, the lowest since June 2001.

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Presidents of operators of Tokyo, Osaka bourses

OSAKA, Japan - Atsushi Saito (L), president of Tokyo Stock Exchange Group Inc., and Michio Yoneda, president of Osaka Securities Exchange Co., are pictured prior to the start of a meeting to discuss the details of the two entities' planned merger, at the Osaka bourse on Dec. 29, 2011. The two companies announced in November that they will merge in January 2013.

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PM Noda returns from India

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, accompanied by first lady Hitomi (behind Noda), arrives at Haneda airport in Tokyo on Dec. 29, 2011, after holding talks with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi the previous day.

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PM Noda returns from India

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda arrives at Haneda airport in Tokyo on Dec. 29, 2011, after holding talks with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi the previous day.

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Samoa shifts to west of dateline

APIA, Samoa - Samoan Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi speaks in the Samoan capital of Apia on Dec. 29, 2011, before the South Pacific island nation shifted from east to west of the international dateline on Dec. 31 by skipping Dec. 30.

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Samoa shifts to west of dateline

APIA, Samoa - Photo taken on Dec. 29, 2011, shows a signboard in the Samoan capital of Apia showing the South Pacific island nation shifting from east to west of the international dateline on Dec. 31 by skipping Dec. 30.

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U.S. experts return from N. Korea

BEIJING, China - Joel Wit, former U.S. Department of State official in charge of North Korean affairs, is surrounded by reporters upon arrival at Beijing international airport from Pyongyang on Dec. 3, 2011. Wit, a visiting scholar at the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and other U.S. experts on Korean affairs entered North Korea on Nov. 29, 2011.