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TonenGeneral to buy Mitsui Oil to create 3rd largest oil wholesaler

TOKYO, Japan - Jun Muto, president of oil wholesaler TonenGeneral Sekiyu K.K., announces at a news conference in Tokyo on Dec. 18, 2013, that the company will acquire a stake of nearly 90 percent in Mitsui Oil Co. for 24.9 billion yen from the trader on Feb. 4. The acquisition would allow the TonenGeneral group to rival Cosmo Oil Co. as Japan's third-largest oil wholesaler in terms of sales following JX Holdings Inc. and Idemitsu Kosan Co.

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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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Tsunami memorial

OTSUCHI, Japan - Photo on Feb. 18, 2013, shows the former town hall of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, damaged by a tsunami in the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. Otsuchi Mayor Yutaka Ikarigawa expressed an intention on March 27, 2013, to preserve part of the building as a memorial.

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Nuclear disaster epicenter town being left to ruin

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo, taken Feb. 18, 2013, shows shoes scattered around the entrance at abandoned Kumamachi Elementary School in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture. Located within 3 kilometers of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, the school was relocated to the prefectural city of Aizuwakamatsu.

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Nuclear disaster epicenter town being left to ruin

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Workers engage in decontamination of a residential neighborhood in restricted areas in the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture on Feb. 18, 2013.

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Nuclear disaster epicenter town being left to ruin

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Abandoned cows prowl around a deserted residential area in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture on Feb. 18, 2013.

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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. School bags and other items remain uncollected.

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Nuclear disaster epicenter town being left to ruin

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo, taken Feb. 18, 2013, shows the central part of the deserted town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, designated as a no-entry zone in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident triggered by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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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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Chelyabinsk after meteor strike

CHELYABINSK, Russia - Photo taken Feb. 18, 2013, shows a skating rink building in Chelyabinsk, Russia, which was damaged by fragments of a meteor that struck the Ural region of Russia three days before.

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Ichiro's new haircut

TAMPA, United States - New York Yankees outfielder Ichiro Suzuki displays his newly cropped hair as he joins the team's spring training camp in Tampa, Florida, on Feb. 18, 2013.

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Charity concert for abduction issue

TOKYO, Japan - Keiji Furuya, state minister in charge of the issue of North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals, plays the clarinet during a charity concert in Tokyo on Feb. 18, 2013, aimed at promoting public awareness of the issue.

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Russian website offers meteor sale

CHELYABINSK, Russia - Photo taken Feb. 18, 2013, shows a Russian Internet site offering sale of what it claims to be a fragment of the meteor that struck the Chelyabinsk area for 100,000 rubles, more than three times the average monthly income of 300,000 rubles for the country's middle-class. Russian police have called on the public not to buy anything that has yet to be certified as a fragment of the meteor, which fell on the region Feb. 15 and left around 1,500 people injured.

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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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N. Korea after nuclear test

PYONGYANG, North Korea - North Koreans walk in a main area of Pyongyang on Feb. 18, 2013, nearly a week after the country's third nuclear test on Feb. 12, 2013.

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N. Korea after nuclear test

PYONGYANG, North Korea - North Korean children walk in Pyongyang on Feb. 18, 2013, nearly a week after the country's third nuclear test on Feb. 12, 2013.

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Body of 3rd Japanese victim of Guam attack

NARITA, Japan - Workers bow to a container after putting into it the coffin of Hitoshi Yokota, the third Japanese victim of a killing spree in Guam, at Narita airport near Tokyo on Feb. 18, 2013. The body arrived in Japan as the victim died Feb. 14, two days after he was hit by a car driven by the assailant, Chad Ryan Desoto. The bodies of the other two Japanese victims returned home on Feb. 15.

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Yokozuna Harumafuji

TOKYO, Japan - Yokozuna Harumafuji speaks during a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Feb. 18, 2013.

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Geisha photo shoot

KYOTO, Japan - Geisha and apprentice geisha attend a photo shoot in Kyoto on Feb. 18, 2013. The event was to take pictures for use in brochures for their annual "Kitano Odori" dance performance to be held from March 25 to April 7.

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New Taiwan premier

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Jiang Yi-huah (R), Taiwan's new premier, receives the official seal of the post from outgoing Premier Sean Chen (L) and Vice President Wu Den-yih in Taipei on Feb. 18, 2013. Jiang, who assumed the post the same day, is Taiwan's youngest premier in more than 50 years.

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Geisha photo shoot

KYOTO, Japan - Geisha and apprentice geisha attend a photo shoot in Kyoto on Feb. 18, 2013. The event was to take pictures for use in brochures for their annual "Kitano Odori" dance performance to be held from March 25 to April 7.

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Yoshida not ready to mull joining FILA female committee

NAGOYA, Japan - Three-time Olympic champion Saori Yoshida answers a reporter's question at a promotional event held at the Nagoya Regional Taxation Bureau in Nagoya on Feb. 18, 2013. Yoshida said she is not ready to consider whether to join the world wrestling governing body's female committee that will be formed as the organization, known as FILA, fights to maintain the sport's Olympic status for the 2020 Summer Games.

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Geisha photo shoot

KYOTO, Japan - Geisha and apprentice geisha get ready for a photo shoot in Kyoto on Feb. 18, 2013. The event was to take pictures for use in brochures for their annual "Kitano Odori" dance performance to be held from March 25 to April 7.

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Osaka tourism bureau

OSAKA, Japan - (From R) Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto, Osaka Gov. Ichiro Matsui and Shigetaka Sato, chairman of the Osaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry, meet in Osaka City on Feb. 18, 2013. They decided to set up a bureau in April 2013 to boost tourism.

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Geisha photo shoot

KYOTO, Japan - Geisha and apprentice geisha get ready for a photo shoot in Kyoto on Feb. 18, 2013. The event was to take pictures for use in brochures for their annual "Kitano Odori" dance performance to be held from March 25 to April 7.