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Naraha town serves as storage site for nuclear waste

SENDAI, Japan - An aerial view of the Maehara district in the town of Naraha in Fukushima Prefecture is seen in two contrasting photos, with the upper image taken on Feb. 26, 2012, and the lower one taken on Sept. 3, 2014. The lower photo shows part of farmland serving as a temporary storage site for nuclear waste generated in decontamination efforts following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident.

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2 years after quake

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Aerial photos taken by Kyodo News show Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture in October 2008 (top), on Feb. 26, 2012 (center), about a year after a nuclear crisis triggered by the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, and on March 3, 2013. From back to front are the buildings housing the No. 1 to No. 4 reactors. The bottom photo shows a cover on the No. 1 reactor building used to prevent radioactive particles from being dispersed. Cranes are at work at No. 3 and No. 4 reactor buildings.

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2 years after quake

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Aerial photos taken by Kyodo News show Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture in December 2000 (top), on Feb. 26, 2012 (center), about a year after a nuclear crisis triggered by the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, and on March 3, 2013. From right to left are the buildings housing the No. 1 to No. 4 reactors.

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Japan's Diet enacts FY 2012 extra budget

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe bows at a plenary session of the House of Councillors in Tokyo on Feb. 26, 2013, after Japan's parliament enacted a 13.1 trillion yen ($140.7 billion) supplementary budget for fiscal 2012. To the left is Finance Minister Taro Aso.

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U.S. sailors' rape trial

NAHA, Japan - Photo shows the courtroom of the Naha District Court in Okinawa Prefecture, southwestern Japan, where two U.S. sailors pleaded guilty on Feb. 26, 2013, to raping and injuring a woman in her 20s in Okinawa in October 2012. (Pool photo)

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Lujan Zoo

LUJAN, Argentina - A girl touches a tiger cub at Lujan Zoo in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Feb. 26, 2012.

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Lujan Zoo

LUJAN, Argentina - A U.S. tourist feeds milk to a Bengal tiger at Lujan Zoo in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Feb. 26, 2012.

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Fukushima Daiichi plant in 2008, 2012

TOKYO, Japan - Photos taken from a Kyodo News helicopter show the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in October 2008 (top) before an accident following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, and the same plant on Feb. 26, 2012 (bottom).

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Fukushima plant in 2000, 2012

TOKYO, Japan - Photos taken from a Kyodo News helicopter show the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in December 2000 (top) before the crisis started there following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, and the same plant on Feb. 26, 2012 (bottom). Reactor buildings Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 are seen from right to left.

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U.S. presidential election

DAVISON, United States - Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum (C) is surrounded by supporters at a rally in Davison, Michigan, on Feb. 26, 2012. Santorum is vying for the Republican presidential nomination to challenge Democratic President Barack Obama, who will be seeking a second term, in the Nov. 6, 2012, election.

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Ex-union leader Washio

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in January 2002 shows Etsuya Washio, former chief of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, known as Rengo. Washio was found collapsed at his home in Tokyo on Feb. 26, 2012, and confirmed dead. He was 73.

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G-20 meeting in Mexico

MEXICO CITY, Mexico - Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa speaks at a press conference in Mexico City on Feb. 26, 2012, after a meeting of the Group of 20 leading economies. Shirakawa welcomed an agreement by the G-20 to review ways to boost resources at the International Monetary Fund in April as ''progress'' toward resolving the eurozone sovereign debt crisis.

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Human chain against Putin

MOSCOW, Russia - Thousands of protesters against Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin form a human chain in Moscow on Feb. 26, 2012, demanding fairness in an upcoming presidential election in which Putin is running.

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Davies in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Glyn Davies (R), U.S. special representative for North Korea policy, shakes hands with Japan's top nuclear envoy Shinsuke Sugiyama at the Japanese Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Feb. 26, 2012. Davies briefed Sugiyama about Washington's first high-level contact with Pyongyang the previous week since the death of longtime leader Kim Jong Il about two months earlier. (Pool photo)

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Aerial view of Fukushima

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Feb. 26, 2012, shows the No. 4 reactor building of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture.

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Aerial view of Fukushima

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Feb. 26, 2012, shows an area in the town of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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Aerial view of Fukushima

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Feb. 26, 2012, shows an area in the town of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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Aerial view of Fukushima

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Feb. 26, 2012, shows an area in the town of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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Aerial view of Fukushima

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Feb. 26, 2012, shows an area within the premises of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture.

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Aerial view of Fukushima

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Feb. 26, 2012, shows tanks containing radiation-tainted water at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture.

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Aerial view of Fukushima

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Feb. 26, 2012, shows (from back to front) the Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 reactor buildings of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture.

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Aerial view of Fukushima

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Feb. 26, 2012, shows the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture. The Nos. 4, 3, 2, 1, 5 and 6 reactor buildings can be seen from left to right.

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Aerial view of Fukushima

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Feb. 26, 2012, shows the No. 3 (L) and No. 4 reactor buildings of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture.

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Aerial view of Fukushima

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Feb. 26, 2012, shows (from R to L) the Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 reactor buildings of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture.

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Aerial view of Fukushima

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Feb. 26, 2012, shows (from front to back) the Nos. 4, 3, 2 and 1 reactor buildings of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture.

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Noda's 1st trip to Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda speaks with reporters in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Feb. 26, 2012. Noda made his first visit to the prefecture as head of the government the same day in a bid to persuade Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima during a meeting the following day to accept a long-stalled plan for the relocation of a key U.S. base within the southern island prefecture.

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Noda's 1st trip to Okinawa

ITOMAN, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (L) visits the Cornerstone of Peace monument, black granite tablets inscribed with the names of the victims of the 1945 Battle of Okinawa, at the Peace Memorial Park in Itoman, Okinawa Prefecture, on Feb. 26, 2012. Noda made his first visit to the prefecture as head of the government the same day in a bid to persuade Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima during a meeting the following day to accept a long-stalled plan for the relocation of a key U.S. base within the southern island prefecture.

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Noda's 1st trip to Okinawa

ITOMAN, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda offers flowers at the Himeyuri no To monument commemorating a corps of female students recruited as nurses for Japanese soldiers during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa, in Itoman, Okinawa Prefecture, on Feb. 26, 2012. Noda made his first visit to the prefecture as head of the government the same day in a bid to persuade Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima during a meeting the following day to accept a long-stalled plan for the relocation of a key U.S. base within the southern island prefecture.

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Noda's 1st trip to Okinawa

ITOMAN, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda visits the Peace Memorial Park in Itoman in Okinawa Prefecture on Feb. 26, 2012. Noda made his first visit to the prefecture as head of the government the same day in a bid to persuade Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima during a meeting the following day to accept a long-stalled plan for the relocation of a key U.S. base within the southern island prefecture.

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Tokyo Marathon

TOKYO, Japan - Kenya's Michael Kipyego (R) and Japan's Arata Fujiwara show their medals at Tokyo Big Sight in the Japanese capital on Feb. 26, 2012, after coming first and second in the Tokyo Marathon.

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Tokyo Marathon

TOKYO, Japan - Katsunobu Sakurai, mayor of Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, which was hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami and ensuing nuclear disaster, is pictured after completing the Tokyo Marathon at Tokyo Big Sight in the Japanese capital on Feb. 26, 2012.

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'Nadeshiko' off to Portugal

NARITA, Japan - Homare Sawa (R) and Shinobu Ono, members of the Japanese women's national soccer team dubbed ''Nadeshiko Japan,'' arrive at Narita airport, near Tokyo, on Feb. 26, 2012, to leave for Portugal to take part in the Algarve Cup.

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'Nadeshiko' off to Portugal

NARITA, Japan - Mai Kyokawa (front) and other members of the Japanese women's national soccer team dubbed ''Nadeshiko Japan,'' are pictured at Narita airport, near Tokyo, on Feb. 26, 2012, ahead of their departure for Portugal to take part in the Algarve Cup.

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Tokyo Marathon

TOKYO, Japan - Former world record holder Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia crosses the finishing line at Tokyo Big Sight in the Japanese capital to finish fourth in the Tokyo Marathon in 2:08.17 on Feb. 26, 2012.

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Tokyo Marathon

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Yuki Kawauchi sprints to the finishing line of the Tokyo Marathon at Tokyo Big Sight in the Japanese capital on Feb. 26, 2012. Kawauchi finished 14th in 2:12.51.

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Tokyo Marathon

TOKYO, Japan - Kenya's Michael Kipyego crosses the finishing line at Tokyo Big Sight in the Japanese capital to win the Tokyo Marathon in 2 hours, 7 minutes and 37 seconds on Feb. 26, 2012.

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Tokyo Marathon

TOKYO, Japan - Runners start the Tokyo Marathon in front of the Tokyo metropolitan government office on Feb. 26, 2012.

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Tokyo Marathon

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Arata Fujiwara crosses the finishing line at Tokyo Big Sight in the Japanese capital to finish second in the Tokyo Marathon in 2:07.48 on Feb. 26, 2012.

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Tokyo Marathon

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Arata Fujiwara crosses the finishing line at Tokyo Big Sight in the Japanese capital to finish second in the Tokyo Marathon in 2:07.48 on Feb. 26, 2012.

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Tokyo Marathon

TOKYO, Japan - Runners start the Tokyo Marathon in front of the Tokyo metropolitan government office on Feb. 26, 2012.

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Noda's 1st trip to Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (L front) is briefed on a plan to build a new runway at Naha airport in Okinawa Prefecture upon his arrival there on Feb. 26, 2012. Noda made his first visit to the prefecture as head of the government the same day in a bid to persuade Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima during a meeting the following day to accept a long-stalled plan for the relocation of a key U.S. base within the southern island prefecture.

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Toyota Aqua hybrid compact car

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo shows Toyota Motor Corp.'s Aqua hybrid compact car. The automaker said Feb. 1, 2012, the number of orders placed for the Aqua as of Jan. 31, 2012, was about 120,000, greatly exceeding its sales goal of 12,000 units a month. The car was released on Dec. 26, 2011.

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Fujifilm's mirrorless digital camera

TOKYO, Japan - A woman holds Fujifilm Corp.'s X-Pro1, the company's first digital mirrorless interchangeable lens camera, in Tokyo on Jan. 26, 2012. Fujifilm plans to release the camera in Japan on Feb. 18 and later in overseas markets.