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Asia-Pacific exercise

CHIANG MAI, Thailand - Officials from participating countries join hands during a ceremony in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand, on Feb. 11, 2013, to mark the opening of a large-scale military training exercise, code-named Cobra Gold 2013, involving 13,000 personnel from the United States and six Asian countries -- Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and the host nation Thailand.

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S. Korea's Park up before IOC

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - South Korean soccer player Park Jong Woo heads for a disciplinary hearing by the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Feb. 11, 2013. The IOC held the hearing for Woo, who stirred controversy at the 2012 London Olympics by raising a banner in the bronze-medal match against Japan proclaiming his country's sovereignty over the Sea of Japan islets known as Takeshima in Japanese and Dokdo by Koreans.

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Russian sail ship in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Russian sail ship Sedov heading to Nagasaki port in southwestern Japan on Feb. 11, 2013.

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Saint Peter's Square

ROME, Italy - Photo shows Saint Peter's Square in Vatican City on Feb. 11, 2013, immediately after a Vatican announcement that Pope Benedict XVI will resign Feb. 28 due to deteriorating strength and advanced age.

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Russian sail ship in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Russian sail ship Sedov arriving at Nagasaki port in southwestern Japan on Feb. 11, 2013.

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Russian sail ship in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - The Russian sail ship Sedov arrives at Nagasaki port in southwestern Japan on Feb. 11, 2013.

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Asian Development Bank president

TOKYO, Japan - Asian Development Bank President Haruhiko Kuroda speaks during an interview with media organizations including Kyodo News in Tokyo on Feb. 11, 2013.

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Kennedy in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy arrives at Naha airport in Okinawa Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Feb. 11, 2014. It is her first trip to the island prefecture with a sizable U.S. military presence since she assumed the post in November 2013.

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Kennedy in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy arrives at Naha airport in Okinawa Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Feb. 11, 2014. It is her first trip to the island prefecture with a sizable U.S. military presence since she assumed the post in November 2013.

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ADB's Nakao in Leyte

TANAUAN, Philippines - Asian Development Bank President Takehiko Nakao visits a primary school in Tanauan on Leyte Island, the Philippines, on Feb. 11, 2014. He visited areas of the island damaged by Typhoon Haiyan in November 2013.

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Actor Natsuyagi dies

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Feb. 7, 2013, shows Japanese actor Isao Natsuyagi. Natsuyagi died at his home in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, on May 11, 2013, at age 73. While the cause of death was not immediately revealed, he had suffered from pancreatic cancer, sources close to him said.

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U.S. researcher pens book on traditional societies

TOKYO, Japan - Jared Diamond, an American scientist known for a broad range of research on anthropology and biology among others, shows the Japanese edition of his recently published book "The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Lean from Traditional Societies?" on Feb. 11, 2013, in Tokyo. The book provides detailed analysis of traditional societies he encountered during his extensive travels around the globe for years.

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19th-century daimyo mansion model found in Vienna

VIENNA, Austria - Photo shows a 19th-century scale model of the mansion of a Japanese daimyo feudal lord at the Museum of Ethnology in Vienna on Feb. 11, 2013. At center in the front is a ''noh'' performance stage. The wooden model, which was sent by the government of Meiji era Japan for the fifth world exposition held in Vienna in 1873 and found at the museum's depot in 1995, will be repaired as a major exhibit at the museum from around 2016.

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19th-century daimyo mansion model found in Vienna

VIENNA, Austria - Bettina Zorn, head of the East Asian Collections at the Museum of Ethnology in Vienna, explains a 19th-century scale model of the mansion of a Japanese daimyo feudal lord at the museum on Feb. 11, 2013. The wooden model, which was sent by the government of Meiji era Japan for the fifth world exposition held in Vienna in 1873 and found at the museum's depot in 1995 by Zorn, will be repaired as a major exhibit at the museum from around 2016.

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19th-century daimyo mansion model found in Vienna

VIENNA, Austria - Photo shows the Museum of Ethnology in Vienna on Feb. 11, 2013. A 19th-century scale model of the mansion of a Japanese daimyo feudal lord, which was sent by the government of Meiji era Japan for the fifth world exposition held in Vienna in 1873, was found at the museum's depot in 1995. The wooden model will be repaired as a major exhibit at the museum from around 2016.

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A-bomb survivors pass on own experiences to support Fukushima

NAGASAKI, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 11, 2013 in the city of Nagasaki shows Masahito Hirose, a survivor of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing in Nagasaki who set up a group to liaise between Fukushima and Nagasaki to support young people in the nuclear crisis-hit Fukushima Prefecture in the long term.

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A-bomb survivors pass on own experiences to support Fukushima

NAGASAKI, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 11, 2013 in the city of Nagasaki shows Masahito Hirose, a survivor of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing in Nagasaki who set up a group to liaise between Fukushima and Nagasaki to support young people in the nuclear crisis-hit Fukushima Prefecture in the long term.

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Walking for survey of post-disaster park reconstruction

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Shunsuke Goto, a Waseda University student, looks at the mouth of the Kitakami River in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Feb. 25, 2013, during a field survey commissioned by the Environment Ministry to choose a 700-kilometer natural path called "Tohoku Kaigan Trail." The selection of the coastal path from Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, to Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, is a core project for a Sanriku Fukko (Reconstruction) National Park to be created by rebuilding natural parks damaged by the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011.

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2 years after quake

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Aerial photos taken by Kyodo News show Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture in October 2008 (top), on Feb. 26, 2012 (center), about a year after a nuclear crisis triggered by the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, and on March 3, 2013. From back to front are the buildings housing the No. 1 to No. 4 reactors. The bottom photo shows a cover on the No. 1 reactor building used to prevent radioactive particles from being dispersed. Cranes are at work at No. 3 and No. 4 reactor buildings.

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2 years after quake

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Aerial photos taken by Kyodo News show Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture in December 2000 (top), on Feb. 26, 2012 (center), about a year after a nuclear crisis triggered by the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, and on March 3, 2013. From right to left are the buildings housing the No. 1 to No. 4 reactors.

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Teacher vows not to let students die from disaster

SENDAI, Japan - Toshiro Sato (L), a teacher at Onagawa Daiichi Junior High School in the coastal town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, tells students at his school to come up with their own words as a "3.11 message" during an assembly for disaster prevention education on Feb. 15, 2013. Sato believes that not to forget what happened in the quake-tsunami disaster on March 11, 2011, is the best disaster prevention.

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Nuclear disaster epicenter town being left to ruin

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo, taken Feb. 18, 2013, shows a classroom at abandoned Kumamachi Elementary School in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, located in the no-entry area. The date of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster remains on the whiteboard.

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Buddhist temples joining matchmaking boom

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Shunko Yoshino (R), chief priest of Anrakuji, a Buddhist temple of the Nichiren sect in the city of Wakayama, and Ryushin Yasutake (C), chief priest of Dorakuji, a Buddhist temple of the Kuze Kannon sect in the town of Katsuragi, Wakayama Prefecture, accept participants in a spouse-finding hunting event in front of an altar in the main hall of Anrakuji on Feb. 11, 2013.

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Buddhist temples joining matchmaking boom

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Shunko Yoshino, chief priest of Anrakuji, a Buddhist temple of the Nichiren sect in the city of Wakayama, explains rules of a spouse-finding event at the temple to a female participant on Feb. 11, 2013.

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Buddhist temples joining matchmaking boom

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Participants in a spouse-finding event on Feb. 11, 2013 at Anrakuji, a Buddhist temple of the Nichiren sect in the city of Wakayama, make colorful beadrolls together.