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Lunar lander developed by Japanese startup

Photo taken at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tsukuba Space Center in the Ibaraki Prefecture city of Tsukuba, eastern Japan, on Sept. 12, 2024, shows the lunar rover Tenacious mounted on the lunar lander Resilience, developed by Tokyo-based Japanese space startup ispace Inc. The company announced the same day a plan to launch the lander on a SpaceX rocket no earlier than December 2024.

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Lunar lander developed by Japanese startup

Photo taken at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tsukuba Space Center in the Ibaraki Prefecture city of Tsukuba, eastern Japan, on Sept. 12, 2024, shows the lunar lander Resilience, developed by Tokyo-based Japanese space startup ispace Inc. The company announced the same day a plan to launch the lander on a SpaceX rocket no earlier than December 2024.

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Lunar lander developed by Japanese startup

Photo taken at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tsukuba Space Center in the Ibaraki Prefecture city of Tsukuba, eastern Japan, on Sept. 12, 2024, shows the lunar lander Resilience, developed by Tokyo-based Japanese space startup ispace Inc. The company announced the same day a plan to launch the lander on a SpaceX rocket no earlier than December 2024.

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Lunar lander developed by Japanese startup

Photo taken at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tsukuba Space Center in the Ibaraki Prefecture city of Tsukuba, eastern Japan, on Sept. 12, 2024, shows the lunar lander Resilience, developed by Tokyo-based Japanese space startup ispace Inc. The company announced the same day a plan to launch the lander on a SpaceX rocket no earlier than December 2024.

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Kim Kyong Hui

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Photo shows Kim Kyong Hui, the younger sister of former North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, attending a gathering in Pyongyang in December 2012 to mourn for the death of her brother. Her husband, Jang Song Thaek, who had been considered the country's second-most powerful figure, was executed Dec. 12, 2013, after being accused of attempting to overthrow the regime.

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LDP lawmaker Tokuda

TOKYO, Japan - Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Takeshi Tokuda answers reporters' questions after meeting LDP Secretary General Shigeru Ishiba at the Diet building in Tokyo on Nov. 12, 2013. Tokuda will leave the ruling party after six people linked to him were arrested on suspicion of illegally providing rewards to people who worked on the lower house member's December 2012 general election campaign.

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LDP lawmaker Tokuda

TOKYO, Japan - Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Takeshi Tokuda answers reporters' questions after meeting LDP Secretary General Shigeru Ishiba at the Diet building in Tokyo on Nov. 12, 2013. Tokuda will leave the ruling party after six people linked to him were arrested on suspicion of illegally providing rewards to people who worked on the lower house member's December 2012 general election campaign.

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6 arrested over Tokuda's election campaign

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Takeshi Tokuda. On Nov. 12, 2013, police arrested six people linked to Tokuda, including his two elder sisters, on suspicion of illegally providing rewards to people who worked on the lower house member's campaign for the December 2012 general election.

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Frustrations linger in Tunisia

SIDI BOUZID, Tunisia - About 100 people gathered in front of a local government office in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, on Jan. 12, 2012. An unemployed man burned himself to death in December 2010 in Sidi Bouzid, touching off nationwide protests.

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Japanese director to stage Greek tragedy in Israel

TEL AVIV, Israel - Japanese theater director Yukio Ninagawa speaks at a press conference in Tel Aviv on Jan. 12, 2012. Ninagawa will direct ''The Trojan Women,'' a tragedy by the Greek playwright Euripides, for performances in Tel Aviv and in Tokyo in December. The cast -- Japanese, Israeli Arab and Jewish actors -- will speak in Japanese, Arabic and Hebrew.

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Panasonic's tablet computers for corporate users

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows the 7.0-inch (L) and 10.1-inch display models of Panasonic Corp.'s new BizPad tablet computers for corporate users to be sold from late December 2011. The consumer electronics giant said on Oct. 12, 2011, that the new tablet computers will run on Google Inc.'s Android 3.2 operating system and will not break even if the 7.0-inch model is dropped from a height of 120 centimeters and the 10.1-inch model from a height of 80 centimeters because of their shockproof structures.

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Ferrari's new convertible 458 Spider

TOKYO, Japan - The new Ferrari 458 Spider is displayed at its unveiling in Tokyo on Oct. 12, 2011. Delivery of the new model, costing 30.6 million yen, begins in December.

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Masayoshi Ohira

Bureaucrat-turned politician who was prime minister between Dec. 7, 1978 and June 12, 1980. Born on March 12, 1910 in Kagawa Prefecture, Ohira joined the Finance Ministry in 1936. He was elected to the House of Representative in 1952. As foreign minister, Ohira was instrumental in normalizing diplomatic relations between Japan and China in 1972. He became prime minister in December 1978 but suddenly died in June 1980 during the campaign for general elections. Photo was taken on March 15, 1978.

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March against Government

Demonstraton against the government by hemophiliacs, who were infected with HIV through contaminated imported blood products, with their supporters. (Picture taken in Osaka on December 12, 1995)