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Pope Francis Dies Aged 88

File photo - Pope Francis arrives at a special consistory with cardinals and bishops in the Synod hall at the Vatican on February 12, 2015. Pope Francis met with cardinals and bishops who will take part in the upcoming Feb. 14, 2015 consistory during which he will elevate 20 new cardinals. Pope Francis is urging his cardinals to cooperate with his reform of the outdated and dysfunctional Vatican bureaucracy. Opening the meetings Francis said the aim was to encourage greater harmony and collaboration in 'absolute transparency' to help the church spread the faith and reach out to others. -- Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, at the age of 88 at his residence in the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Poet Shuntaro Tanikawa dies at 92

Shuntaro Tanikawa, a leading poet in postwar Japan also known for his translations of the U.S. cartoon strip "Peanuts," reads a poem at a Tokyo hotel on Feb. 12, 2015. Tanikawa died on Nov. 13, 2024, aged 92.

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CHINA-GUANGXI-DAHUA-WATER SUPPLY-DEVELOPMENT (CN)

(230321) --DAHUA, March 21, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Feb. 12, 2015 shows a villager collecting rainwater on rooftop after a heavy rainfall in Nongyong Village of Bansheng Township, Dahua Yao Autonomous County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Situated at the center of the Karst landforms in west Guangxi, Dahua Yao Autonomous County had suffered from severe water deficit for ages. Since 2012, local government has been managing the water deficit through various measures like building water tanks or reservoirs to collect water or constructing water supply projects which could divert river water onto mountain areas to ease water shortage and provide safe drinking water for local people. Afters years of efforts, safe and convenient water supply is no longer a problem for the over 200,000 rural population in Dahua. (Xinhua/Huang Xiaobang)

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Tsunami-hit city library compiles victims' memoirs in English

Officials from the Higashimatsushima City Library (back) interview a priest of the Shirahige Shrine in the northeastern Japan city on Feb. 12, 2015, on his experience in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tsunami-hit city library compiles victims' memoirs in English

A priest (R) of the Shirahige Shrine in the northeastern Japan city of Higashimatsushima tells officials of the city library on Feb. 12, 2015, about his experience in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Retired Bulgarian sumo wrestler inherits traditional elder's name

Retired professional sumo wrestler Kotooshu from Bulgaria is shown in this undated file photo. The former ozeki inherited the traditional sumo elder's name of Naruto on Feb. 12, 2015. He is currently a coach at the Sadogatake sumo stable. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Photographer criticizes confiscation of passport

Freelance photographer Yuichi Sugimoto presents a document he received from a Foreign Ministry official, ordering him to return his passport due to his having made plans to travel to Syria, at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Feb. 12, 2015. During the press conference, he voiced concern that the government's move will infringe on the freedom of press. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Novartis Japan unit faces business suspension order

Photo taken June 12, 2014, shows the building in Tokyo's Minato Ward housing a Japanese unit of Swiss pharmaceutical maker Novartis AG. The health ministry has decided to order a business suspension of around 15 days for the Tokyo-based company for not reporting serious side effects of its drugs, sources close to the matter said on Feb. 2, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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5th anniversary of Japan's March 2011 disaster

Combination photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on March 12, 2011, (L) and Feb. 17, 2016, shows a ballpark in the northeastern Japanese city of Minamisoma devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The stadium reopened in July 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese boxers receive prizes

(From L) Kazuto Ioka, Takashi Uchiyama and Shinsuke Yamanaka pose for a photo after receiving the outstanding performance award, the 2015 Japan's Boxer of the Year award and the technique award, respectively, at a Tokyo hotel on Feb. 12, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Scientists report detection of gravity waves theorized by Einstein

File photo taken in November 2015 shows a part of "KAGRA," a gravitational wave detector, installed in Hida in the central Japan prefecture of Gifu. KAGRA research team members celebrated in Osaka on Feb. 12, 2016 the detection by an international team of scientists of gravitational waves, ripples in space-time predicted 100 years ago by Albert Einstein in a physics theory, from colliding black holes. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Scientists report detection of gravity waves theorized by Einstein

File photo taken in November 2015 shows a part of "KAGRA," a gravitational wave detector, installed in Hida in the central Japan prefecture of Gifu. KAGRA research team members celebrated in Osaka on Feb. 12, 2016 the detection by an international team of scientists of gravitational waves, ripples in space-time predicted 100 years ago by Albert Einstein in a physics theory, from colliding black holes. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Young fishermen form joint sales group to survive post-disaster days

Shota Abe, co-representative of Fisherman Japan, collects kelp aboard a boat off Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Feb. 12, 2015. Abe and other young fishermen founded the joint marketing organization in July 2014 for the revitalization of fisheries businesses after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster that devastated northeastern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fixed-point observation shows change of disaster-hit areas

Combination photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the urban district of the northeastern Japanese coastal city of Ofunato on March 12, 2011, (L), a day after the area was hit by a deadly earthquake, and the same area on Feb. 24, 2015. Seafood processing plants and shops have been built during the past four years. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-Japan coach Osim speaks in interview with Kyodo News

Former Japan coach Ivica Osim speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Sarajevo on Feb. 27, 2015. Osim served as a conduit between the Japan Football Association and fellow Bosnian Vahid Halilhodzic, who could be unveiled as new coach of the Blue Samurai as early as March 12. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Marquinhos sets eyes on J-League career record of 157 goals

Marcos Gomes de Araujo of J-League Division 1 football club Vissel Kobe shoots during a practice match against the Fukuoka University team in Kagoshima, southwestern Japan, on Feb. 12, 2015. The Brazilian striker, better known as Marquinhos, is eight goals shy of the Japanese professional league's all-time career high of 157 goals set by Masashi Nakayama. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Construction of sled courses underway for 2018 Winter Olympics

Work is underway to build bobsled, skeleton and luge courses for the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, on Feb. 12, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Senior RAND Corp. researcher Brennan speaks in interview

Rick Brennan, senior political scientist at RAND Corp., speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in a Washington suburb on Feb. 12, 2015. He stressed the need to deploy up to 8,000 U.S. troops in Iraq to fight Islamic State militants. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Groundbreaking ceremony for new school in tsunami-hit town

A groundbreaking ceremony is conducted in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on Feb. 12, 2015, to mark the start of construction of a primary-cum-secondary school building. (From L) Elementary schooler Mana Saito, Otsuchi Mayor Yutaka Ikarigawa and junior high schooler Kinnosuke Hakoyama. The town was devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that hit the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Task force to fix Japan's unified basketball league in May

Saburo Kawabuchi, chairman of a reform task force instigated by the International Basketball Federation, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 12, 2015, after meeting representatives from teams of Japan's current two national leagues to exchange opinions. Kawabuchi said the shape and structure of the country's new, single league will be decided in May. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Group campaigning to award Japanese people Nobel Peace Prize

A group campaigning to award the Japanese people the Nobel Peace Prize for abiding by the war-renouncing Article 9 of the Constitution holds a meeting in the National Diet building in Tokyo on Feb. 12, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Woman leads campaign to award Japanese people Nobel Peace Prize

Naomi Takasu, leader of a group campaigning to award the Japanese people the Nobel Peace Prize for abiding by the war-renouncing Article 9 of the Constitution, speaks at a meeting held in the National Diet building in Tokyo on Feb. 12, 2015. The meeting brought together some 120 people, including parliamentarians from the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, the Japanese Communist Party and the Social Democratic Party. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Confiscated fake police rank badge displayed in Yokohama

A police station in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, displays on Feb. 12, 2015, a fake police badge of rank confiscated at the home of Gota Saito who was arrested on suspicion of forging and selling the items on the Internet. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fake police rank badges confiscated in Yokohama

A police station in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, displays on Feb. 12, 2015, fake police badges of rank confiscated at the home of Gota Saito who was arrested on suspicion of forging and selling the items on the Internet. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe advised to trim budget deficit by 2.5 tril. yen annually

Nongovernmental members of the Council on Fiscal and Economic Policy propose at a meeting in Tokyo on Feb. 12, 2015, that the administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should trim the budget deficit by an annual amount of 2.5 trillion yen to attain its goal of turning the primary balance into surplus by fiscal 2020. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nonpartisan group founded in Japan to end killings of stray animals

Hidehisa Otsuji (2nd from L), a Liberal Democratic Party member of the House of Councillors, speaks in the Diet building in Tokyo on Feb. 12, 2015, in front of lawmakers at a meeting called to inaugurate a nonpartisan group aimed at terminating the killing of stray dogs and cats. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan rice wine brewer to sell raw sake in aluminum bottles

Japanese sake brewer Nihon Sakari Co. announces in Osaka, western Japan, on Feb. 12, 2015, the sale of two varieties of raw unprocessed rice wine in aluminum bottles of individual-sized servings nationwide from Feb. 25. It will be the first of its kind by a major brewer, according to Nihon Sakari. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese farm lobby leader speaks to foreign press in Tokyo

Akira Banzai, president of the Central Union of Agricultural Cooperatives, known as JA-Zenchu, speaks at a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Feb. 12, 2015, focusing on the government's plan to overhaul the farm lobby. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fukushima panel denies correlation between cancer, radiation

Hokuto Hoshi, head of a Fukushima prefectural committee studying the health impact of the 2011 nuclear power plant accident, denies any correlation between the disaster and the recent confirmation of a single thyroid cancer case at a press conference in Fukushima city on Feb. 12, 2015. The results of the committee's second round of surveys on all Fukushima children showed that one child suffered thyroid cancer, but denied a view that they were affected by radiation. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-NRC head Jaczko speaks on nuclear safety in Japanese parliament

Gregory Jaczko, former head of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, speaks about nuclear safety in the Japanese parliament building in Tokyo on Feb. 12, 2015, with regard to Japan's plans to restart idled nuclear reactors. Jaczko was active NRC chief when the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster occurred in northeastern Japan in March 2011. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mascot characters join anticrime campaign in Osaka

Kumamoto Prefecture's bear-like mascot character "Kumamon" (C, R) and its Osaka Prefecture counterpart "Mozuyan" (C, L) resembling a shrike appear at a crime prevention campaign meeting in Higashiosaka, western Japan, on Feb. 12, 2015. At the gathering of about 150 citizens and kindergarten students, they called for attention to handbag snatching and other crimes. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mascot characters join crime awareness campaign in Osaka

Kumamoto Prefecture's bear-like mascot character "Kumamon" (C) and its Osaka Prefecture counterpart "Mozuyan" (R) resembling a shrike appear at a crime awareness campaign meeting in Higashiosaka, western Japan, on Feb. 12, 2015. At the meeting, a policeman showed how to hold a handbag tight to prevent it from being snatched away. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kyocera unveils ultra-rugged smartphone for Europe

Kyocera Corp. unveils on Feb. 12, 2015, an ultra-rugged smartphone for the European market. The diversified electronics giant will start marketing the "Torque" smartphone in Germany and France by the end of March at the earliest and then study introducing it in other European countries in a move marking the company's full-fledged entry into the European smartphone market. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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People flock to camera, photo imaging show in Yokohama

People gather around next-generation digital cameras and peripheral equipment at the "CP+ 2015" show in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo, on Feb. 12, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sympathy gift from Japanese men to Sewol ferry victim's kin

Kazuhiko Ogawa (R), chairman of a Japan-South Korea exchange association of Kagawa Prefecture, western Japan, donates money from its two male members as a sign of sympathy in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, on Feb. 12, 2015, to the mother of a female crew member who lost her life in the South Korean ferry Sewol's fatal accident last April. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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People wait for ticket sales for final luxury sleeper train run

Many people wait for the start of ticket sales for the Twilight Express at West Japan Railway Co.'s Osaka Station on Feb. 12, 2015, a month before the luxury sleeper train's last run from the western Japan station to Sapporo in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido. The train is to be retired due to age after 26 years of service. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Greece, Eurozone fail to reach accord on bailout deal

Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem speaks as Eurogroup chief at a press meeting in Brussels on Feb. 12, 2015, after Greek and Eurozone officials failed to narrow their differences on how to keep Greece from running out of money. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sympathy gift from Japanese group to Sewol ferry victim's kin

Members (L) of a Japan-South Korea exchange association of Kagawa Prefecture, western Japan, visit Gyenonggi Province, South Korea, on Feb. 12, 2015, to offer a donation as a sign of sympathy to the family of a female crew member who lost her life in the South Korean ferry Sewol's fatal accident in April 2014. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ultra-high-definition TV displayed at camera, imaging show

Visitors watch an 8K ultra-high-definition image at "CP+ 2015," an exhibition of state-of-the-art cameras and photo imaging systems, in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo, on Feb. 12, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sony to launch trainer headset for runners March 7

A woman wears Sony Corp.'s headset called "Smart B-Trainer" using music for helping runners to adjust their running pace. Sony said Feb. 12, 2015, it will put on the market on March 7 the 43-gram device which measures heart rate, calorie consumption and the pace of running, and selects songs for adjusting the pace from a stock of up to 3,900 songs. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Teen Uno 2nd after Four Continents SP

Japan's Takahito Mura performs in the men's short program on Feb. 12, 2015, the opening day of the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Seoul. Defending champion Mura was fourth in the opening phase of the competition with 84.88 points. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Teen Uno 2nd after Four Continents SP

Japan's Shoma Uno (L) smiles with his coach Mihoko Higuchi after finishing the performance in the men's short program on Feb. 12, 2015, the opening day of the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Seoul. Uno was second in the opening phase of the competition with 88.90 points. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Teen Uno 2nd after Four Continents SP

Japan's Shoma Uno performs in the men's short program on Feb. 12, 2015, the opening day of the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Seoul. Uno was second in the opening phase of the competition with 88.90 points. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Foreign Minister Kishida makes foreign policy speech in Diet

Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida delivers a foreign policy speech during a plenary session of the House of Representatives in Tokyo on Feb. 12, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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JFA president gets off with slap on wrist for Aguirre scandal

Japan Football Association President Kuniya Daini speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 12, 2015, after the JFA's executive board meeting. Daini volunteered to take a 50 percent pay cut for four months for sacking national coach Javier Aguirre, who was implicated in a match-fixing scandal. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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1-year prison term given to ex-Korean Air VP over "nut rage"

File photo shows former Korean Air Vice President Cho Hyun Ah appearing at South Korea's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport in Seoul on Dec. 12, 2014. A Seoul court on Feb. 12, 2015, sentenced Cho, a 40-year-old daughter of the airline's chairman, to one year in prison for obstructing aviation safety on Dec. 5 by ordering a plane to return to the gate because she was angered over being served macadamia nuts in an unopened pack instead of a bowl. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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2 more idled nuclear reactors in Japan get safety OKs

Shunichi Tanaka, chairman of the Nuclear Regulation Authority, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 12, 2015, after the regulatory body approved safety measures for the Nos. 3 and 4 reactors at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Takahama complex, located on the Sea of Japan coast in Fukui Prefecture. The approval gave another boost to the government's planned resumption of atomic power generation following the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi meltdowns. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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People returning home for Chinese Lunar New Year

Armed police officers stand guard in front of Beijing Railway Station in Beijing on Feb. 12, 2015, as people return to their hometowns for the Chinese Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival, holidays starting Feb. 19. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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People returning home for Chinese Lunar New Year

People gather in front of Beijing Railway Station in Beijing on Feb. 12, 2015, returning to their hometowns for the Chinese Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival, holidays starting Feb. 19. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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People returning home for Chinese Lunar New Year

A man carries a large baggage in front of Beijing Railway Station in Beijing on Feb. 12, 2015, as people return to their hometowns for the Chinese Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival, holidays starting Feb. 19. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo