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'Kumamon,' popular mascot for Kumamoto

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows ''Kumamon,'' the official black bear mascot for the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Kumamoto, when it visited the Kyodo News headquarters in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2013. Sales of products featuring Kumamon swelled to at least 29.36 billion yen in 2012, about 11 times more than those of the previous year, local officials said Feb. 20, 2013.

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'Kumamon,' popular mascot for Kumamoto

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows ''Kumamon,'' the official black bear mascot for the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Kumamoto, when it visited the Kyodo News headquarters in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2013. Sales of products featuring Kumamon swelled to at least 29.36 billion yen in 2012, about 11 times more than those of the previous year, local officials said Feb. 20, 2013.

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'Kumamon,' popular mascot for Kumamoto

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows ''Kumamon,'' the official black bear mascot for the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Kumamoto, when it visited the Kyodo News headquarters in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2013. Sales of products featuring Kumamon swelled to at least 29.36 billion yen in 2012, about 11 times more than those of the previous year, local officials said Feb. 20, 2013.

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Comedian Neko to represent Cambodia at Olympic marathon

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 5, 2012, in Oita, southwestern Japan, shows comedian Hiroshi Neko. Neko, who was born in Japan's Chiba Prefecture and obtained Cambodian citizenship in October 2011 so he could have a shot at running in this summer's London Olympics, will represent Cambodia in the men's marathon in the event, the secretary general of Cambodia's Olympic committee said March 25, 2012.

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Dogs at shelter

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows dogs in the care of an animal protection group in Osaka Prefecture on Feb. 25, 2012. They are two of the three dogs rescued from the home of a woman in Matsubara in the prefecture, who was arrested on suspicion of leaving 12 miniature dachshunds at her home unattended. The other nine dogs died.

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Nagoya coach Stojkovic

NAGOYA, Japan - Nagoya Grampus coach Dragan Stojkovic answers reporters' questions after visiting Atsuta Jingu shrine in Nagoya on Feb. 27, 2012, to pray for his J-League first division soccer team's success in the upcoming season. Stojkovic said he is waiting for a probe into a case that a grenade was thrown into the yard of his family home in Serbia on Feb. 25, 2012. His mother, who was at home, was safe.

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Japan's Azumi, Shirakawa

MEXICO CITY, Mexico - Japanese Finance Minister Jun Azumi (L) and Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa hold a press conference in Mexico City on Feb. 25, 2012. Finance ministers and central bank governors from the Group of 20 leading economies began a two-day meeting there the same day.

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Darvish in spring training

SURPRISE, United States - Texas Rangers rookie Yu Darvish throws his second live batting practice of the major league team's spring training in Surprise, Arizona, on Feb. 25, 2012.

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Darvish in spring training

SURPRISE, United States - Texas Rangers rookie Yu Darvish throws his second live batting practice of the major league team's spring training in Surprise, Arizona, on Feb. 25, 2012.

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Darvish in spring training

SURPRISE, United States - Texas Rangers rookie Yu Darvish wipes his sweat while taking part in the major league team's spring training in Surprise, Arizona, on Feb. 25, 2012.

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U.S. envoy in S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - U.S. special envoy on North Korean affairs Glyn Davies (L) and Lim Sung Nam, South Korea's chief delegate to the six-party talks on ending Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program, attend a joint press conference after their meeting in Seoul on Feb. 25, 2012. Davies was in Seoul after having two days of talks with North Korean nuclear negotiators in Beijing.

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Indian fans of Japanese comics

NEW DELHI, India - Indian fans read Japanese ''manga'' at an exhibition of more than 500 Japanese comic books in New Delhi on Feb. 25, 2012. The event marks the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Japan and India.

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Memorial for Chongryon chief

PYONGYANG, North Korea - A memorial service is held at the People's Palace of Culture in Pyongyang on Feb. 25, 2012, for So Man Sul, the late chairman of the Central Standing Committee of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, known as Chongryon.

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Drift ice off Hokkaido

SAPPORO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the sightseeing icebreaker Aurora advancing through waters covered by drift ice off Abashiri, Hokkaido, on Feb. 25, 2012.

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Drift ice off Hokkaido

SAPPORO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the sightseeing icebreaker Aurora advancing through waters covered by drift ice off Abashiri, Hokkaido, on Feb. 25, 2012.

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Japan revised quake warning report

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows copies of internal documents on the science ministry's draft report on a possible massive tsunami in the northeastern Japan region and an information exchange meeting. According to interviews and those documents made available on Feb. 25, 2012, a government panel granted a plea from three companies that operate nuclear power plants to revise wording in the draft report warning of such a tsunami.

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U.S. envoy in S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - U.S. special envoy on North Korean affairs Glyn Davies (L) and Lim Sung Nam, South Korea's chief delegate to the six-party talks on ending Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program, shake hands before their meeting in Seoul on Feb. 25, 2012. Davies was in Seoul after having two days of talks with North Korean nuclear negotiators in Beijing.

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Chongryon chief's funeral

TOKYO, Japan - A wreath from North Korea's new leader Kim Jong Un (L) is placed beside the portrait of So Man Sul, the late chairman of the Central Standing Committee of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, as the group known as Chongryon held a funeral for So in Tokyo on Feb. 25, 2012.

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Memorial for Nepalese victim

OSAKA, Japan - A memorial is held at a Buddhist temple in Osaka on Feb. 25, 2012, for Bishnu Prasad Dhamala, a Nepalese man killed on a street in Osaka in January 2012. Four Japanese have been arrested in connection with the case and three of them have been indicted on a charge of murder.

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N. Korea bans seafood exports

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in December 2009 shows a man opening a box of crabs from North Korea at a crab processing plant in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in Jilin Province, China. Sources familiar with China-North Korean trade matters said on Feb. 25, 2012, that North Korea has banned exports of seafood since the beginning of 2012 as its new leadership under Kim Jong Un is apparently trying to expand food rations ahead of the centennial anniversary of the birth of the country's founder, Kim Il Sung.