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Former volleyball coach Matsudaira dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Japan men's national volleyball team head coach Yasutaka Matsudaira being tossed into the air by members of his team after winning the gold medal at the Munich Olympics in September 1972. The Japan Volleyball Association said Jan. 5, 2012, that Matsudaira died from a lung condition at a Tokyo hospital on Dec. 31, 2011. He was 81.

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Former volleyball coach Matsudaira dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in July 2001 shows former Japan men's national volleyball team head coach Yasutaka Matsudaira. Matsudaira, who steered the country to the gold medal at the 1972 Munich Olympics, died from a lung condition at a Tokyo hospital on Dec. 31, 2011, the Japan Volleyball Association said Jan. 5, 2012. He was 81.

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Report on U.S. base relocation

NAHA, Japan - An employee of the Okinawa prefectural government checks the content of the environmental impact assessment report on the relocation of a U.S. Marine base within the prefecture at the government office in Naha on Jan. 5, 2012. Delivering the report to the prefectural government drew public attention late 2011 after protesters blocked the report's submission and the Defense Ministry managed to get it through by delivering it in the predawn hours of Dec. 28 when protesters were scarce.

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Japan's greenhouse gas emissions

DOHA, Qatar - Japanese Environment Minister Hiroyuki Nagahama answers reporters' questions on Dec. 5, 2012, in Doha, Qatar, where the 18th United Nations Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change is being held. Greenhouse gases equivalent to 1,307 million tons of carbon dioxide were emitted in Japan in fiscal 2011 through March 2012, up 3.9 percent from the previous year, the Environment Ministry said the same day in a preliminary report.

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Kabuki actor Nakamura Kanzaburo dies

TOKYO, Japan - A November 2011 file photo shows prominent Kabuki actor Nakamura Kanzaburo (R) attending an event in Tokyo's Asakusa area. Kanzaburo died on Dec. 5, 2012, at the age of 57. He had made public that he was suffering from esophageal cancer. At C and L of the photo are Kanzaburo's sons Nakamura Kankuro and Nakamura Shichinosuke, also Kabuki actors.

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Namco game producer

TOKYO, Japan - Ken Nakadate, who heads the development team of ''Taiko no Tatsujin'' at Namco Bandai Games Inc., poses with drumsticks in front of the game machine at the company headquarters in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on Dec. 5, 2011. Nakadate said he is constantly thinking about how to create fun game machines.

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Retired shinkansen train

TOKYO, Japan - Members of a family have fun around a 0 series shinkansen bullet train displayed at the SCMAGLEV and Railway Park museum in Nagoya on Dec. 5, 2011. The original 0 series trains were put into operation when the Tokaido Shinkansen Line opened in 1964. They ran on the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen lines and retired in 2008.

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WikiLeaks' Assange allowed to continue legal battle

LONDON, Britain - A photograph of Julian Assange, the founder of whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, is placed by his supporters at the gate of Britain's High Court in London on Dec. 5, 2011. The court allowed him the same day to appeal to the country's Supreme Court against extradition to Sweden on criminal sexual conduct charges.

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WikiLeaks' Assange allowed to continue legal battle

LONDON, Britain - Julian Assange, the founder of whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, speaks with reporters in front of Britain's High Court in London on Dec. 5, 2011, after the court allowed him to appeal to the country's Supreme Court against extradition to Sweden on criminal sexual conduct charges.

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Oldest dog dies at age of 26 years, 9 months

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows the male cross-breed dog Pusuke in Sakura, Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo, who was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest living dog in December 2010. He died on Dec. 5, 2011, at the age of 26 years and 9 months.

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China's top climate diplomat Xie

DURBAN, South Africa - Xie Zhenhua, vice chairman of China's National Development and Reform Commission, speaks during a press conference at the venue for the 17th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP17, in Durban, South Africa, on Dec. 5, 2011. He is head of the Chinese delegation at the conference.

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Ex-transport minister Fuyushiba dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in November 2007 shows Tetsuzo Fuyushiba, former secretary general of the New Komeito party and former minister of land, infrastructure, transport and tourism. Fuyushiba died on the night of Dec. 5, 2011, aged 75, a senior New Komeito official said the same day.

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Paris launches electric car-sharing program

PARIS, France - Program assistants are shown standing in front of electric vehicles during a ceremony in Paris on Dec. 5, 2011 to launch an electric car-sharing program called Autolib. In the program, users can rent an electric vehicle at one location and drop it off at another.

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WikiLeaks' Assange allowed to continue legal battle

LONDON, Britain - Julian Assange, the founder of whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, speaks with reporters in front of Britain's High Court in London on Dec. 5, 2011, after judges at the court allowed him to make a final appeal to the country's Supreme Court to avoid extradition to Sweden over sex crimes allegations.

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Paris launches electric car-sharing program

PARIS, France - Electric vehicles are shown at a ceremony in Paris on Dec. 5, 2011 to launch an electric car-sharing program called Autolib. In the program, users can rent an electric vehicle at one location and drop it off at another.

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Survey in Fukushima rice field

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Prof. Yasuyuki Muramatsu (R) of Gakushuin University, an expert on radiochemistry, collects a soil sample in a rice field in the city of Fukushima, northeastern Japan, on Dec. 5, 2011. Excessive levels of radioactive cesium have been found in rice harvested in the area in the aftermath of the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

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Paris launches electric car-sharing program

PARIS, France - Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe (2nd from L) and others attend a ceremony in Paris on Dec. 5, 2011, to launch an electric car-sharing program called Autolib. In the program, users can rent an electric vehicle at one location and drop it off at another.

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Japan-U.S. tsunami rescue drills

URUMA, Japan - Japan's Air Self-Defense Force and the U.S. military conduct a joint lifesaving drill on Dec. 5, 2011, in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture, in southern Japan. The drills were conducted on the assumption that an earthquake has occurred off the eastern coast of the Okinawa main island, triggering a tsunami which had swept people out to sea.

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Survey in Fukushima rice field

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Prof. Yasuyuki Muramatsu (L) of Gakushuin University, an expert on radiochemistry, holds a rice plant stump he collected in a rice field in the city of Fukushima, northeastern Japan, on Dec. 5, 2011. Excessive levels of radioactive cesium have been found in rice harvested in the area in the aftermath of the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. (Photo taken with fish-eye lens)

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Survey in Fukushima rice field

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Prof. Yasuyuki Muramatsu (front) of Gakushuin University, an expert on radiochemistry, measures radioactivity levels in a rice field in the city of Fukushima, northeastern Japan, on Dec. 5, 2011. Excessive levels of radioactive cesium have been found in rice harvested in the area in the aftermath of the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

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Japan-U.S. tsunami rescue drills

URUMA, Japan - Japan's Air Self-Defense Force and the U.S. military conduct a joint lifesaving drill on Dec. 5, 2011, in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture, in southern Japan. The drills were conducted on the assumption that an earthquake has occurred off the eastern coast of the Okinawa main island, triggering a tsunami which had swept people out to sea.

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Japan-U.S. tsunami rescue drills

URUMA, Japan - Japan's Air Self-Defense Force and the U.S. military conduct a joint lifesaving drill on Dec. 5, 2011, in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture, in southern Japan. The drills were conducted on the assumption that an earthquake has occurred off the eastern coast of the Okinawa main island, triggering a tsunami which had swept people out to sea.

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EU Climate Commissioner Hedegaard

DURBAN, South Africa - Connie Hedegaard (L), the European Union commissioner for climate action, speaks during a press conference at the venue for the 17th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP17, in Durban, South Africa, on Dec. 5, 2011.

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Kosovo Foreign Minister Hoxhaj in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Enver Hoxhaj, Kosovo foreign minister, holds a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Dec. 5, 2011.

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Ethiopia deputy premier

TOKYO, Japan - Hailemariam Desalegn, deputy prime minister and foreign minister of Ethiopia, speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 5, 2011.

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Swiss walking across Japan

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Thomas Koehler, a former travel agent from Switzerland, smiles after arriving in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, in Kyushu, Japan's southern main island, having traveled through a tunnel from Shimonoseki on the Honshu main island on Dec. 5, 2011. Koehler has been walking across Japan to help revive tourism to the country, which has been dented by the March quake and tsunami and subsequent nuclear crisis.

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Kumamoto dam to be demolished

KUMAMOTO, Japan - Photo taken Dec. 5, 2011, shows the Arase Dam in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture, in southwestern Japan. A local bureau of the infrastructure ministry the same day approved demolishing the dam because of its age.

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TEPCO's compensation management center

TOKYO, Japan - Workers inside a ''compensation management center'' in Tokyo run by Tokyo Electric Power Co. confirm the content of compensation claims from individuals for damage caused by the nuclear crisis at the company's Fukushima Daiichi power plant on Dec. 5, 2011. The utility on the same day began accepting the second round of compensation claims for the three-month period from Sept. 1.

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Noda rejects dismissing defense minister

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (front) speaks during a session of the House of Representatives Budget Committee at the Diet building in Tokyo on Dec. 5, 2011. Noda said he wants Yasuo Ichikawa (back R) to stay on as defense minister despite growing calls for his resignation due to questions over his competence and responsibility in connection with an inflammatory comment by one of his ministry's senior officials.

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Exhibition of WWII-themed works by cartoonist Mizuki

YOKOHAMA, Japan - A visitor looks at World War II-themed works by cartoonist Shigeru Mizuki, author of the popular horror comic series ''Gegege no Kitaro,'' at the Japan Newspaper Museum in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on Nov. 5, 2011. The exhibit began the same day and will run until Dec. 25.

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1st-class seats on Hayabusa bullet train

RIFU, Japan - Photo shows seats in the GranClass first-class car of East Japan Railway Co.'s E5-type Hayabusa bullet train, which was opened to the media on Dec. 14, 2010, in Rifu, Miyagi Prefecture. The train will debut on March 5, 2011, on the Tohoku Shinkansen Line between Tokyo and Aomori, northeastern Japan.

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1st-class seats on Hayabusa bullet train

RIFU, Japan - Photo shows seats in the GranClass first-class car of East Japan Railway Co.'s E5-type Hayabusa bullet train, which was opened to the media on Dec. 14, 2010, in Rifu, Miyagi Prefecture. The train will debut on March 5, 2011, on the Tohoku Shinkansen Line between Tokyo and Aomori, northeastern Japan.

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Hayabusa bullet train

RIFU, Japan - The E5-type Hayabusa bullet train is unveiled to the media by East Japan Railway Co. on Dec. 14, 2010, in Rifu, Miyagi Prefecture. The train will debut on March 5, 2011, on the Tohoku Shinkansen Line between Tokyo and Aomori, northeastern Japan.

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Hayabusa bullet train commercial model unveiled

RIFU, Japan - A logo featuring a falcon design is seen on East Japan Railway Co.'s E5-type Hayabusa (Falcon) bullet train on Dec. 14, 2010, in Rifu, Miyagi Prefecture. The train will debut on March 5, 2011, on the Tohoku Shinkansen Line between Tokyo and Aomori, northeastern Japan.