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Japanese girl wins award at Russia's top music school

MOSCOW, Russia - Photo shows Kanon Matsuda, a 16-year-old Japanese girl, who studies the piano at the Gnessin Moscow Special School of Music. Matsuda was given the best student award on Feb. 15, 2013, becoming the first foreigner to win the honor at the institution that has trained gifted children since the late 19th century.

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Abe on Constitution

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (standing) attends a meeting of the Headquarters for the Promotion of Revision to the Constitution of his Liberal Democratic Party at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Feb. 15, 2013. Abe expressed eagerness to revise Japan's pacifist Constitution during his tenure.

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Japanese girl wins award at Russia's top music school

MOSCOW, Russia - Kanon Matsuda, a 16-year-old Japanese girl, plays the piano during a ceremony at the Gnessin Moscow Special School of Music, Russia's top music school, on Feb. 15, 2013. Matsuda was given the best student award, becoming the first foreigner to win the honor at the institution that has trained gifted children since the late 19th century.

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Aso at G-20 in Moscow

MOSCOW, Russia - Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso (C) meets the press on Feb. 15, 2013, after attending the first day of a two-day meeting in Moscow of Group of 20 finance chiefs.

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Guam rampage

GUAM, United States - Chad Ryan Desoto (L), the suspect in a vehicle and knife rampage on Guam, attends court in the U.S. territory on Feb. 15, 2013. The Feb. 12 rampage left three Japanese dead and 11 others injured.

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Meeting on U.S.-style security council

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (far R) speaks in Tokyo on Feb. 15, 2013, at the first meeting of a panel of experts to discuss how to create a Japanese version of the U.S. National Security Council to strengthen the leadership role of the prime minister's office in global affairs.

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Guam rampage

GUAM, United States - Chad Ryan Desoto, the suspect in a vehicle and knife rampage on Guam, attends court in the U.S. territory on Feb. 15, 2013. The Feb. 12 rampage left three Japanese dead and 11 others injured.

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Lee returns to Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Tadanari Lee meets the press at Haneda airport in Tokyo after arriving from Britain on Feb. 15, 2013. The 27-year-old striker, who recently joining FC Tokyo from Premier League club Southampton on a short-term loan deal, spoke to reporters before going on to join up with Tokyo at their preseason training in Miyazaki in southwestern Japan.

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Sumo legend Taiho to receive national award

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows the former yokozuna Taiho, who died of heart disease in January 2013 at the age of 72. The government will award a posthumous national honor to the late yokozuna in recognition of his historic sumo victory record, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Feb. 15, 2013.

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Car and knife rampage on Guam

GUAM, United States - Vehicles believed to carry relatives of some Japanese victims of a recent car and knife rampage on Guam leave a hospital as they were returning to Japan along with the victims' bodies on Feb. 15, 2013. Investigators allege that the 21-year-old assailant, Chad Ryan Desoto, ran down six people with his car, crashed it into a building and then stabbed eight people after getting out of the vehicle, killing three Japanese tourists and injuring ten other Japanese nationals and one local.

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Exhibition to honor antinuke Austrian writer

HIROSHIMA, Japan - The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima, western Japan, opens an exhibition Feb. 15, 2013, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Robert Jungk, an Austrian writer known for his efforts to focus international attention on the devastation caused by the 1945 atomic bombing of the city. The exhibition is due to run through March 28, 2013.

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Meteorite medal at Sochi

SOCHI, Russia - Photo shows a special medal containing a piece of meteorite that fell on Chelyabinsk, Russia in February 2013, to be presented to athletes who won the gold medal at the Sochi Olympics on Feb. 15, 2014, exactly a year after the meteor struck the southern Russian region. The meteorite medals, prepared by the Chelyabinsk region authorities, will be delivered to the gold medalists through pertinent national Olympic committees.

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Fukuoka makers of "karashi mentaiko"

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 15, 2013, shows "karashi mentaiko" production lines at a factory of Yamaya Communications Inc. in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan.

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Artistic director breathes new life into S. Korean ballet

SEOUL, South Korea - Choi Tae Ji (2nd from R, front), the artistic director of the Korea National Ballet, is surrounded by members of the company in Seoul during practice on Feb. 15, 2013. The Japanese-born South Korean rose to prominence as the company's prima ballerina in the 1980s.

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Artistic director breathes new life into S. Korean ballet

SEOUL, South Korea - Choi Tae Ji, the artistic director of the Korea National Ballet, gives an interview on Feb. 15, 2013 at the office of the ballet company in Seoul. The Japanese-born South Korean rose to prominence as the company's prima ballerina in the 1980s.

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Artistic director breathes new life into S. Korean ballet

SEOUL, South Korea - Choi Tae Ji, the artistic director of the Korea National Ballet, gives an interview on Feb. 15, 2013 at the office of the ballet company in Seoul. The Japanese-born South Korean rose to prominence as the company's prima ballerina in the 1980s.

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Aso at G-20 in Moscow

MOSCOW, Russia - Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso meets the press on Feb. 15, 2013, after attending the first day of a two-day meeting in Moscow of Group of 20 finance chiefs.

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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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Antinuclear protests in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - People have their umbrellas up as they look on at an hour-long live program under rain at "Tent Square" on Feb. 15, 2013, in Tokyo's Kasumigaseki government district. The program was transmitting voices and messages disapproving of atomic-power use, which has long been promoted by the Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry (at right in the background).

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Remains found to be of Richard III

LEICESTER, Britain - People line up in front of Leicester Cathedral in Leicester, England, on Feb. 15, 2013, to view an exhibition on Richard III (1452-1485) in a neighboring building. Archeologists from the University of Leicester said on Feb. 4, 2013, that remains unearthed in Leicester in September 2012 are of the England monarch.

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Remains found to be of Richard III

LEICESTER, Britain - A Feb. 15, 2013, photo shows the car park where a set of human remains were found in Leicester, England, in September 2012. Archeologists from the University of Leicester said on Feb. 4, 2013, the remains are of Richard III (1452-1485).

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2 years after N.Z. quake

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - Photo taken Feb. 15, 2013, shows a temporary cathedral under construction in place of the damaged Christchurch Cathedral in Christchurch, New Zealand, about two years after the Feb. 22, 2011, magnitude-6.3 earthquake. Seen in front is the site of the Canterbury TV building, which housed a language school and which collapsed in the quake, claiming the lives of 115 people including students from seven countries including Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.

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2 years after N.Z. quake

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - Photo taken Feb. 15, 2013, shows a central area of Christchurch, New Zealand, which remains cordoned off almost two years after the Feb. 22, 2011, magnitude-6.3 earthquake.

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2 years after N.Z. quake

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - Photo taken Feb. 15, 2013, shows a boat tour on the river in Christchurch, New Zealand, that resumed about six months ago after being suspended following the Feb. 22, 2011, magnitude-6.3 earthquake.

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2 years after N.Z. quake

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - New Zealand's earthquake recovery minister Gerry Brownlee visits a cordoned area damaged by the Feb. 22, 2011, magnitude-6.3 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Feb. 15, 2013.