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Mt. Fuji chosen as Heritage site

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from Yamanakako, Yamanashi Prefecture, shows photographers and tourists taking the pictures of the "diamond Fuji" phenomenon, or a diamond ring-like sun on the edge of Mt. Fuji, on Feb 18, 2012. The World Heritage Committee of UNESCO on June 22, 2013, decided to inscribe Mt. Fuji on the World Heritage List.

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Maestro Ozawa

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa. He will make a comeback in August 2013 at the Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto, conducting French composer Maurice Ravel's opera "The Child and the Spells," the festival's organizing committee said Feb. 18, 2013. Ozawa has suspended public musical activities since March 2012 to recover his strength and concentrate on rehabilitation after his condition deteriorated.

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1 year after N.Z. quake

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - Photo shows a section of Christchurch, New Zealand, kept off-limits on Feb. 18, 2012, nearly a year after a major quake. Seen in the background is the cathedral damaged in the Feb. 22, 2011, disaster.

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Japanese-Americans WWII internment

LOS ANGELES, United States - Actor George Takei (L) and Norman Mineta, former U.S. transportation secretary, are pictured in Los Angeles on Feb. 18, 2012, after announcing the launch of the Remembrance Project, a website to allow the sharing of stories about the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.

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Darvish's father

SURPRISE, United States - Farsad Darvish, father of Texas Rangers right-hander Yu Darvish, speaks with reporters in Surprise, Arizona, on Feb. 18, 2012, during a visit to the site of the major league team's spring training.

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'Music from Japan' festival in New York

NEW YORK, United States - Harpist Fuyuhiko Sasaki plays a restored ''kugo'' harp that was used in ancient Asia, during the ''Music from Japan'' festival in Merkin Concert Hall at the Kaufman Center in New York on Feb. 18, 2012.

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Japanese animation creator Wada in Berlin

BERLIN, Germany - Japanese animation creator Atsushi Wada is pictured at a press conference in Berlin on Feb. 18, 2012. ''Great Rabbit,'' a French animated film directed by Wada, won the silver award the same day in the short film section of the Berlin International Film Festival.

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Mayor of nuclear disaster-hit Iitate village

NEW YORK, United States - Norio Kanno, the mayor of Iitate in Fukushima Prefecture, a village badly affected by the nuclear crisis following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, addresses an audience in New York on Feb. 18, 2012, about the villagers' efforts to recover from the disaster.

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Japanese director Imaizumi in Berlin

BERLIN, Germany - Japanese film director Kaori Imaizumi gives a speech in Berlin on Feb. 18, 2012. A jury comprised of children at the Berlin International Film Festival gave a special award for a film for viewers aged 13 or younger to ''Kikoeteru, furi o shita dake'' (I only pretended to hear you), directed by Imaizumi, who is also a nurse in Tokyo.

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KARA in concert

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean female pop group KARA holds a concert in Seoul on Feb. 18, 2012.

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Japan ground force in S. Sudan

JUBA, South Sudan - Vehicles take materials from Juba airport in South Sudan to a depot of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force engineering unit on Feb. 18, 2012. They are in South Sudan to help build infrastructure under a U.N. peacekeeping mission.

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Emperor undergoes heart bypass surgery

TOKYO, Japan - Atsushi Amano, a professor at Juntendo University, speaks in a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 18, 2012, after he and other doctors performed heart bypass surgery on Emperor Akihito.

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World Cup moguls

YUZAWA, Japan - Canadian Mikael Kingsbury clinches the men's overall World Cup moguls crown after winning his eight gold of the season with a high score of 25.34 at Naeba Ski Resort in Niigata Prefecture on Feb. 18, 2012.

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Emperor undergoes heart bypass surgery

TOKYO, Japan - (From R) Ichiro Kanazawa, the imperial household's main doctor, Atsushi Amano, a Juntendo University professor, Minoru Ono, a University of Tokyo professor, Ryozo Nagai, a University of Tokyo professor, and Takashi Kadowaki, director of University of Tokyo Hospital, attend a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 18, 2012, after performing heart bypass surgery on Emperor Akihito.

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Defense minister in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - Japanese Defense Minister Naoki Tanaka (L) shakes hands with Lt. Gen. Kenneth J. Glueck Jr., Okinawa area coordinator and commanding officer of the III Marine Expeditionary Force of the United States, at Camp Foster in Okinawa Prefecture on Feb. 18, 2012.

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World Cup moguls

YUZAWA, Japan - American Hannah Kearney extends her record winning streak to 16 straight World Cup moguls titles with an outstanding score of 25.49 at Naeba Ski Resort in Niigata Prefecture on Feb. 18, 2012.

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Emperor undergoes heart bypass surgery

TOKYO, Japan - People write goodwill messages for Emperor Akihito at a location beside the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Feb. 18, 2012. The emperor underwent heart bypass surgery after being diagnosed with angina.

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World Cup moguls

YUZAWA, Japan - American Hannah Kearney extends her record winning streak to 16 straight World Cup moguls titles with an outstanding score of 25.49 at Naeba Ski Resort in Niigata Prefecture on Feb. 18, 2012.

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Emperor undergoes heart bypass surgery

TOKYO, Japan - People head to a location beside the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Feb. 18, 2012, to write goodwill messages for Emperor Akihito, who underwent heart bypass surgery after being diagnosed with angina.

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Emperor undergoes heart bypass surgery

TOKYO, Japan - People visit a location beside the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Feb. 18, 2012, to write goodwill messages for Emperor Akihito, who underwent heart bypass surgery after being diagnosed with angina.

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Defense minister in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - Defense Minister Naoki Tanaka (front L) views the planned relocation site at the U.S. Marine Corps' Camp Schwab in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, for functions of the Marines' Futenma Air Station in Ginowan in the same prefecture, on Feb. 18, 2012.

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Emperor undergoes heart bypass surgery

TOKYO, Japan - People write goodwill messages for Emperor Akihito at a location beside the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Feb. 18, 2012. The emperor underwent heart bypass surgery after being diagnosed with angina.

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Emperor undergoes heart bypass surgery

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Feb. 16, 2012, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows University of Tokyo Hospital in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward where Emperor Akihito underwent heart bypass surgery on Feb. 18, 2012, after he was diagnosed with angina.

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Takeshima sovereignty issue exhibition in Shimane

MATSUE, Japan - A visitor is pictured on Jan. 18, 2012, at a six-week exhibition entitled ''The Syngman Rhee Line and Takeshima'' in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture. The prefectural government started the special exhibition the same day to call attention to the sovereignty issue surrounding a group of South Korean-controlled islets in the Sea of Japan which is claimed by Japan as part of the western prefecture. The exhibition is to run through Feb. 29.