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Fish shop owner in tsunami-hit town fillets salmon

TOKYO, Japan - Shoetsu Mukushi, owner of a family-run seafood-processing firm, cuts a lightly salted salmon into fillets in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on Dec. 8, 2014. The town and other parts of the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku were ravaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake and ensuing tsunami in 2011 but he revived the business a month after the disaster.

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Baghdad after Iraq War

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Only the base of a statue of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein remains in a square in central Baghdad on Dec. 8, 2011, after the statue was pulled down in a famous incident in 2003.

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Japanese ski jumper Takanashi

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Dec. 3, 2011, shows Japanese teenage ski jumper Sara Takanashi. Takanashi, 15, placed second in a World Cup event on Jan. 8, 2012, in Hinterzarten, Germany, becoming the first Japanese female jumper to stand on the podium in the three events held so far on the inaugural World Cup ski jumping circuit.

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Firebombs tossed at Japan Embassy in Seoul

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken on Dec. 26, 2011, shows the charred lower part of a gate at the war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. A man arrested after tossing firebombs at the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Jan. 8, 2012, said he set a fire to the shrine gate in Tokyo, but that claim is yet to be confirmed.

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Police officer in Baghdad

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A police officer holds Iraq's national flag in Baghdad on Dec. 8, 2011. U.S. forces in Iraq held a ceremony in Baghdad on Dec. 15, 2011, to officially end their military mission in Iraq.

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Traffic jam in Beijing

BEIJING, China - A road in Beijing is clogged with cars on Dec. 8, 2011. A sharp rise in the number of cars is exacerbating traffic jams in the Chinese capital.

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Murakami, youngest chief of company listed on Tokyo bourse

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Dec. 8, 2011, shows Taichi Murakami, president of Internet services company Livesense Inc., at the company in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward. On Dec. 7, Murakami became the youngest president of a company to debut on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, aged 25 years and 1 month.

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White tiger cubs at Kagoshima zoo

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken Dec. 8, 2011, shows two white tiger cubs, male(L) and female, which were born on Nov. 18, 2011, at the Hirakawa Zoological Park in the city of Kagoshima, southwestern Japan. The zoo plans to show them to the public from around February.

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White tiger cubs at Kagoshima zoo

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken Dec. 8, 2011, shows a male white tiger cub, one of the two surviving felines that were born on Nov. 18, 2011, at the Hirakawa Zoological Park in the city of Kagoshima, southwestern Japan. The zoo plans to show them to the public from around February. Two other cubs were born the same day but died shortly afterward.

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Site of 1996-1997 hostage crisis in Peru

LIMA, Peru - Photo taken Dec. 8, 2011, shows the site of the former residence of the Japanese ambassador in Lima, the site of a four-month hostage crisis in 1996-1997 that claimed the lives of 17 people. A condominium is planned to be built on the site, Japanese embassy sources said Dec. 12, 2011.

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Sea Shepherd's Brigitte Bardot at Australian port

PERTH, Australia - The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society vessel Brigitte Bardot berths at a port in the suburbs of Perth, western Australia, on Dec. 8, 2011. The vessel is believed to have been preparing for obstructing Japan's research whaling activities.

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Shoji at Junior Grand Prix Final

QUEBEC CITY, Canada - Japan's Risa Shoji performs the women's short program routine which secured her fourth place at the Junior Grand Prix Final in Quebec City, Canada, on Dec. 8, 2011.

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Shoji at Junior Grand Prix Final

QUEBEC CITY, Canada - Japan's Risa Shoji responds to the crowd after performing in the women's short program at the Junior Grand Prix Final in Quebec City, Canada, on Dec. 8, 2011. The 15-year-old placed fourth after the program.

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Asada withdraws from Grand Prix Final

QUEBEC CITY, Canada - Ottavio Cinquanta, president of the International Skating Union, speaks about Mao Asada's withdrawal from the Grand Prix Final during a press conference in Quebec City, Canada, on Dec. 8, 2011. The two-time world champion withdrew from the prestigious event beginning there the following day after her mother was taken ill in Japan.

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Asada withdraws from Grand Prix Final

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Japanese figure skater Mao Asada. The two-time world champion on Dec. 8, 2011, withdrew from the Grand Prix Final beginning in Quebec, Canada, the following day to be with her ill mother.

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Mt. Sakurajima

FUKUOKA, Japan - File photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter in October 2011 shows Mt. Sakurajima, an active volcano in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan. The volcano explosively erupted late Dec. 8, 2011, for the 897th time this year, breaking its annual record for the third consecutive year, according to the local observatory.

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Nobel laureate Tanaka in Fukushima probe panel

TOKYO, Japan - Nobel chemistry laureate Koichi Tanaka speaks in the Diet in Tokyo on Dec. 8, 2011, after assuming a post as a member of a panel probing the causes of the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.

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U.S. envoy on N. Korea in S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - The new U.S. special representative for North Korea policy, Glyn Davies (L), and South Korean foreign minister Kim Sung Hwan shake hands before their meeting in Seoul on Dec. 8, 2011.

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SDF member decontaminates Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - A member of Japan's Self-Defense Forces removes soil near the Tomioka town hall in Fukushima Prefecture on Dec. 8, 2011. SDF members have been mobilized to help decontaminate areas tainted with radioactive substances emitted by the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.

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Film director Tomita

KOFU, Japan - Japanese film director Katsuya Tomita holds a movie award in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, on Dec. 8, 2011. Tomita won the grand prize at the 33rd Festival of Three Continents in Nantes, France, in late November for his film ''Saudade,'' which is set in Kofu.

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Costa Rican president in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda shake hands after their press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 8, 2011.

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Costa Rican President Chinchilla in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla (2nd from R in front) and Japanese Emperor Akihito (front R) chat during a luncheon at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Dec. 8, 2011. (Pool photo)

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Composer Miki dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in 2001 shows music composer Minoru Miki, who died at a western Tokyo hospital on Dec. 8, 2011, at the age of 81.

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'Liar Tofu' event in Tottori

YONAGO, Japan - In front of a huge block of tofu, a woman helps her son insert a strip of paper, on which he has confessed the lies he told in 2011, into a box during the ''Liar Tofu'' event held in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture on Dec. 8, 2011. According to legend in this western Japanese prefecture, if you eat tofu on Dec. 8, all the lies you have told since the beginning of the year will go away.

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U.S. envoy Davies in S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - Glyn Davies (R), the U.S. special representative for North Korea policy, and Lim Sung Nam, South Korea's chief envoy to the six-party talks on North Korea's denuclearization, attend a press conference at the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Seoul after holding talks there on Dec. 8, 2011.

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Konishiki visits quake-hit areas as Santa Claus

HIGASHIMATSUSHIMA, Japan - Children look happy after receiving presents from Konishiki (C back row), a Hawaiian-born sumo wrestler-turned-TV personality, dressed up as Santa Claus, in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, on Dec. 8, 2011. Konishiki is touring the Tohoku region, which was severely hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, to give presents to local children.

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Stranded train recovered in tsunami-hit Miyagi

HIGASHIMATSUSHIMA, Japan - A train car is lifted by crane in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, in northeastern Japan, on Dec. 8, 2011, to be loaded onto a trailer. East Japan Railway Co. began work the same day to recover a four-car train, which has been stranded there for nearly nine months since the March earthquake and tsunami, which heavily damaged the rail track and other facilities of the JR Senseki Line connecting Sendai with Ishinomaki.

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U.S. envoy Davies in S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - Glyn Davies, the U.S. special representative for North Korea policy, is pictured ahead of his talks with Lim Sung Nam, South Korea's chief envoy to the six-party talks on North Korea's denuclearization, at the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Seoul on Dec. 8, 2011.

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U.S. envoy Davies in S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - Glyn Davies (L), the U.S. special representative for North Korea policy, shakes hands with Lim Sung Nam, South Korea's chief envoy to the six-party talks on North Korea's denuclearization, ahead of their talks at the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Seoul on Dec. 8, 2011.

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Teenage film director

TOKYO, Japan - Ryugo Nakamura, a 14-year-old student in Okinawa, poses for a photo at a Tokyo hotel on Dec. 23, 2010. His film ''Yagi no Boken'' (adventure of a goat) will be shown at theaters across Japan beginning with three cinemas in Tokyo and Yokohama from Jan. 8, 2011.

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Sojitz begins shipment of farmed bluefin tuna

SASEBO, Japan - Photo taken on Dec. 8, 2010, in Matsuura, Nagasaki Prefecture, shows Sojitz Tuna Farm Takashima Co.'s first shipment of farmed bluefin tuna ahead of the high-demand yearend and new-year season. Major trading house Sojitz Corp., which wholly owns Sojitz tuna farm, is the first Japanese trading company to enter into tuna farming, while an international commission decided to slightly reduce the bluefin tuna fishing quota for 2011.

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Sojitz begins shipment of farmed bluefin tuna

SASEBO, Japan - People involved with a tuna farming project pose for photos during a ceremony to commemorate Sojitz Tuna Farm Takashima Co.'s first shipment of farmed bluefin tuna on Dec. 8, 2010, in Matsuura, Nagasaki Prefecture. Major trading house Sojitz Corp., which wholly owns Sojitz tuna farm, is the first Japanese trading company to enter into tuna farming, while an international commission decided to slightly reduce the bluefin tuna fishing quota for 2011.