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JKT48 performs in event

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Members of the Indonesian pop group JKT 48 perform at a hotel in Jakarta on Feb. 24, 2012, during an event hosted by the Japanese Embassy in Jakarta to express gratitude for Indonesian support for Japan over the March 2011 quake and tsunami.

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Brewers' Aoki

MARYVALE, United States - New Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Norichika Aoki stretches in Maryvale, Arizona, on Feb. 24, 2012, a day before the start of a spring camp.

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Matsui in 'one-man' camp

NEW YORK, United States - Team-less free agent Hideki Matsui practices batting during a one-man workout at a facility in the state of New York on Feb. 24, 2012, to get ready for the upcoming 2012 major league season.

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Japan beat Iceland 3-1

OSAKA, Japan - Japan's Tomoaki Makino jumps with joy after scoring his team's third goal during the second half of an international friendly against Iceland at Nagai Stadium in Osaka on Feb. 24, 2012. Japan won 3-1.

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Japan beat Iceland 3-1

OSAKA, Japan - Japan's Tomoaki Makino (R) celebrates after scoring his team's third goal during the second half of an international friendly against Iceland at Nagai Stadium in Osaka on Feb. 24, 2012. To the left is teammate Ryoichi Maeda, who scored the opener during the first half. Japan won 3-1.

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Japan beat Iceland 3-1

OSAKA, Japan - Japan coach Alberto Zaccheroni gives instructions to players during the first half of an international friendly against Iceland at Nagai Stadium in Osaka on Feb. 24, 2012. Japan won 3-1.

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Japan beat Iceland 3-1

OSAKA, Japan - Japan's Jungo Fujimoto (L) scores his team's second goal during the second half of an international friendly against Iceland at Nagai Stadium in Osaka on Feb. 24, 2012. Japan won 3-1.

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Group lodges protest over Nagoya mayor's remarks

NAGOYA, Japan - Kensaku Ishikawa (L), head of the Aichi prefectural chapter of the Japan-China Friendship Association, hands a letter of protest against Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura to an official at the Nagoya city government office on Feb. 24, 2012. Kawamura earlier in the week expressed doubt about the massacre of civilians by the Imperial Japanese Army in Nanjing in 1937.

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Wu meets Davies

BEIJING, China - Wu Dawei, China's special representative for Korean Peninsula affairs, is pictured in Beijing on Feb. 24, 2012, after holding talks with Glyn Davies, U.S. special representative for North Korea policy.

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Miyazato at HSBC Women's Champions

SINGAPORE, Singapore - Japan's Ai Miyazato speaks to reporters after the second rounds of the HSBC Women's Champions at Tanah Merah Country Club in Singapore on Feb. 24, 2012. Miyazato managed a 2-under 70 to land in a three-way tie for fourth place at the halfway mark of the U.S. LPGA event.

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ASEAN chief in speech

BANGKOK, Thailand - Association of Southeast Asian Nations Secretary General Surin Pitsuwan speaks during a press conference in Bangkok, Thailand, on Feb. 24, 2012.

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U.S.-N. Korea meeting

BEIJING, China - Glyn Davies, U.S. special representative for North Korea policy, speaks with reporters at a Beijing hotel after holding talks with North Korean First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan on Feb. 24, 2012.

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U.S.-N. Korea meeting

BEIJING, China - Glyn Davies (C), U.S. special representative for North Korea policy, speaks with reporters at a Beijing hotel after holding talks with North Korean First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan on Feb. 24, 2012.

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Jumping over burning straw effigy

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - A Russian woman and a male Chinese student jump over a burning straw effigy in an event to bid farewell to winter at a university in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East on Feb. 24, 2012. The event is part of a Russian religious week called Maslenitsa.

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'Rich Shrine' donates revenues from souvenir sales to town

YONAGO, Japan - Takahiro Kageyama (2nd from R), mayor of Hino, Tottori Prefecture, receives a donation from representatives of the Hino Town Tourism Association in the town on Feb. 24, 2012. The body that runs a souvenir shop at Kamochi Shrine sold souvenirs worth 4.5 million yen in 2011 and donated all of the money to the town government. The name of the shrine can also be read as Kanemochi Shrine, meaning ''wealthy shrine'' or ''shrine of the rich.''

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U.S.-N. Korea meeting

BEIJING, China - North Korean First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan (L) arrives at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing on the morning of Feb. 24, 2012, to resume talks with Glyn Davies, U.S. special representative for North Korea policy.

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Corporate pension manager AIJ

TOKYO, Japan - A lawyer for corporate pension fund manager AIJ Investment Advisors Co. speaks with reporters on the first floor of the building housing the office of the company in Tokyo's Nihombashi district on Feb. 24, 2012, after the Financial Services Agency ordered the company to suspend its business for one month earlier in the day on suspicion that it has lost most of its clients' money totaling about 210 billion yen. The lawyer declined to comment, citing ongoing investigations by the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission.

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Nuclear accident probe panel meets with int'l experts

TOKYO, Japan - (From R) Richard Meserve, former chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Andre-Claude Lacoste, chairman of the French nuclear safety authority, Lars-Erik Holm, head of Sweden's National Board of Health and Welfare and formerly chairman of the International Commission on Radiological Protection, and Chang Soon Heung, professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, attend a meeting in Tokyo on Feb. 24, 2012. A government-appointed panel looking into the cause of the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant started the two-day meeting the same day to seek advice from international experts about its ongoing investigation.

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Japan to tighten limits on cesium in food

TOKYO, Japan - The Pharmaceutical Affairs and Food Sanitation Council, an advisory council to the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry, meets at the ministry in Tokyo on Feb. 24, 2012. The council decided to tighten limits on radioactive cesium found in food to between one-20th and a quarter of the current provisional limits, depending on food categories, from April 1.

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Gov't orders AIJ to suspend business

TOKYO, Japan - Financial Services Minister Shozaburo Jimi announces in a press conference at the Diet building in Tokyo on Feb. 24, 2012, that the ministry has ordered corporate pension fund manager AIJ Investment Advisors Co. to suspend its business for one month on suspicion that it has lost most of its clients' money, totaling about 210 billion yen.

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Corporate pension manager AIJ

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 24, 2012, shows the building housing the office of corporate pension fund manager AIJ Investment Advisors Co. in Tokyo's Nihombashi district. The Financial Services Agency ordered the company to suspend its business for one month the same day, after finding that most of the fund managed by AIJ, totaling about 210 billion yen, is missing.

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Tokyo Disneyland to open new Goofy attraction

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows an image of Tokyo Disneyland's new attraction called Goofy's Paint and Play House. The theme park near Tokyo said on Feb. 20, 2012, that it will open the attraction on Aug. 24, 2012.

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Tokyo Marathon women's winner disqualified over doping

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Tatiana Aryasova of Russia finishing first in the women's race of the Tokyo Marathon on Feb. 27, 2011. Race organizers said Jan. 24, 2012, that it had been informed of an anti-doping rule violation by Aryasova and declared Noriko Higuchi of Japan as the winner of the race.