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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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Sasago tunnel

OTSUKI, Japan - The site of the fatal collapse of an interior roof on Dec. 2, 2012, in the Sasago Tunnel on the Chuo Expressway in Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo, is shown to reporters on Feb. 3, 2013, for the first time since the accident. Flowers are laid where vehicle fires happened.

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Sasago tunnel

OTSUKI, Japan - The site of the fatal collapse of an interior roof on Dec. 2, 2012, in the Sasago Tunnel on the Chuo Expressway in Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo, is shown to reporters on Feb. 3, 2013, for the first time since the accident. Flowers are laid where vehicle fires happened.

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Stateless people in Kuwait

AL JAHRA, Kuwait - A man is seen walking along poor houses in the Tima district of the province of Al Jahra, central Kuwait, on Feb. 3, 2012. The area has many stateless people called the Bedoun.

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Jetstar Japan names destination cities

TOKYO, Japan - Jetstar Japan Chief Executive Officer Miyuki Suzuki (2nd from L) attends a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 8, 2012, introducing four destination cities the low-cost carrier will serve -- Osaka, Sapporo, Fukuoka and Naha -- from its home base Narita International Airport near Tokyo. The budget airline set up by Japan Airlines Co., trading house Mitsubishi Corp. and the Qantas Group of Australia, also said it will commence domestic flights on July 3, 2012.

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Japanese competitive eater Kobayashi

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Japanese competitive eater Takeru Kobayashi during an interview with Kyodo News in New York on July 1, 2010. The 33-year-old former hot dog eating champion won an annual chicken wing eating contest in Philadelphia on Feb. 3, 2012, downing a record 337 wings in 30 minutes.

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Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura

OSAKA, Japan - Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura answers questions from reporters in Osaka on the night of Feb. 3, 2012, after holdings talks with Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto. The two mayors discussed cooperation for the next election of the House of Representatives.

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Suu Kyi goods in Yangon

YANGON, Myanmar - A man examines goods featuring Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi at a stall in Yangon on Feb. 3, 2012.

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Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto is pictured in Osaka on the night of Feb. 3, 2012, after holdings talks with Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura. The two mayors discussed cooperation for the next election of the House of Representatives.

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Disaster drill in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows participants of a disaster drill getting on the U.S. Navy's guided missile destroyer Lassen in Tokyo's Koto Ward on Tokyo Bay on Feb. 3, 2012. About 10,000 people took part in the drill aimed at avoiding the chaotic overcrowding at train stations and on streets that left many stranded following the March 11 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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U.N. official in Myanmar

YANGON, Myanmar - U.N. human rights envoy Tomas Ojea Quintana (L) and Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi hold a press conference in Yangon on Feb. 3, 2012.

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Koshu wine to France

KOFU, Japan - A man holds a bottle of ''Koshu'' brand wine in Yamanashi Prefecture on Feb. 3, 2012. Wine producers in the prefecture said the same day they will hold the first trade and press tasting of the ''Koshu'' wines in Paris on Feb. 20, 2012, to promote the local wines in Europe.

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Disaster drill in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Participants of a disaster drill get on the U.S. Navy's guided missile destroyer Lassen in Tokyo's Koto Ward on Tokyo Bay on Feb. 3, 2012. About 10,000 people took part in the drill aimed at avoiding the chaotic overcrowding at train stations and on streets that left many stranded following the March 11 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Suu Kyi goods in Yangon

YANGON, Myanmar - A man examines goods featuring Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi at a stall in Yangon on Feb. 3, 2012.

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Koshu wine to France

KOFU, Japan - Photo shows bottles of ''Koshu'' brand wine in Yamanashi Prefecture on Feb. 3, 2012. Wine producers in the prefecture said the same day they will hold the first trade and press tasting of the ''Koshu'' wines in Paris on Feb. 20, 2012, to promote the local wines in Europe.

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Disaster drill in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the U.S. Navy's guided missile destroyer Lassen in Tokyo Bay heading to the U.S. Navy base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, taking part in a disaster drill in Tokyo on Feb. 3, 2012. Seen in the background is the Tokyo Sky Tree tower. About 10,000 people took part in the drill aimed at avoiding the chaotic overcrowding at train stations and on streets that left many stranded following the March 11 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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5 Chinese to resume job training after surviving tsunami

NARITA, Japan - Five Chinese trainees arrive at Narita airport near Tokyo on Feb. 3, 2012. They returned to Japan to resume training at a seafood-processing plant in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, after surviving the March 11, 2011, tsunami that swept away the company's executive officer who helped them to escape and later lost his life.

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Panasonic to log record 780 bil. yen net loss

TOKYO, Japan - Panasonic Corp. President Fumio Otsubo speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 3, 2012. Panasonic said it expects to post its biggest-ever group net loss of 780 billion yen for the business year to March 31, 2012, due to the adverse impact of the flooding in Thailand in 2011 and a write-off related to the acquisition of Sanyo Electric Co.

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U.S. inviting quake-affected Japan students on academic programs

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos (L) attends a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 3, 2012. The United States unveiled a set of student exchange programs that will take several hundred Japanese young people, mainly from areas affected by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, to U.S. educational institutions starting later in 2012. Standing 2nd from R is Masayoshi Son, chairman of Softbank Corp., one of the sponsors of the project.

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Defense Ministry's Okinawa bureau chief

TOKYO, Japan - Ro Manabe (front), chief of the Defense's Ministry's Okinawa bureau, speaks as a witness during a session of the House of Representatives Budget Committee at the Diet building in Tokyo on Feb. 3, 2012. Manabe testified at parliament as he has been under fire for an accusation that he meddled in a local election linked to the planned relocation of a key U.S. base in Okinawa Prefecture. Behind Manabe is Defense Minister Naoki Tanaka.

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Honda NSX hybrid concept car

TOKYO, Japan - Honda Motor Co. President Takanobu Ito stands by the carmaker's NSX hybrid concept car at the company's head office in Tokyo on Feb. 3, 2012.

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Major disaster drill in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Aerial photo shows participants in a disaster drill walking home from a park near JR Ikebukuro train station in Tokyo on Feb. 3, 2012. The drill, under the assumption that a large number of people have become stranded due to a magnitude 7.3 earthquake that has paralyzed Tokyo's public transportation system, involved 10,000 people in all and was conducted simultaneously in areas surrounding three of the Japanese capital's major train stations -- Shinjuku, Tokyo and Ikebukuro.

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Panasonic to log record 780 bil. yen net loss

TOKYO, Japan - Panasonic Corp. President Fumio Otsubo answers reporters' questions during a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 3, 2012. Panasonic said it expects to post its biggest-ever group net loss of 780 billion yen for the business year to March 31, 2012, due to the adverse impact of the flooding in Thailand in 2011 and a write-off related to the acquisition of Sanyo Electric Co.

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Softbank dog's grandson

SAPPORO, Japan - Photo shows a male puppy named Kaiji (bottom), the first ''grandpuppy'' of Kai, a Hokkaido-breed dog famous for playing the role of a father in a human family in TV commercials for Softbank Mobile Corp., in the town of Mukawa, Hokkaido, on Feb. 3, 2012. To the top is Kai's daughter Kirara.

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Lower house OKs 4th extra budget

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (far R) and members of his Cabinet bow deeply at a plenary session of the House of Representatives in Tokyo on Feb. 3, 2012, after the lower house approved a fourth supplementary budget for fiscal 2011 that will finance relief measures following the March earthquake and tsunami.

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Former Khmer Rouge chief jailer gets life imprisonment

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Guek Eav is shown on a monitor in the press room of a court in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Feb. 3, 2012. The U.N-backed Supreme Chamber of the Khmer Rouge tribunal sentenced Kaing Guek Eav, alias Duch, to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity and war crimes, deeming him responsible for the deaths of more than 12,000 people at the torture center he ran between 1976 and 1979.

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Actor Matsuyama throws beans at temple

NARITA, Japan - Japanese actor Kenichi Matsuyama (C) scatters beans during the annual Bean-Throwing Festival marking the lunar calendar start of spring at Naritasan Shinshoji Temple in Narita, northeast of Tokyo, on Feb. 3, 2012. People in Japan customarily throw beans to drive away demons and welcome good luck at traditional ''setsubun'' events in early February.

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Major disaster drill in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Participants in a disaster drill acting as people who have become unable to return home due to a magnitude 7.3 earthquake that has paralyzed Tokyo's public transportation system, receive emergency food from JR Shinjuku train station staff inside the station on Feb. 3, 2012. The drill, involving 10,000 people in all, was conducted simultaneously in areas surrounding three of the Japanese capital's major train stations -- Shinjuku, Tokyo and Ikebukuro.

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Major disaster drill in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Participants in a disaster drill gather in front of the Tokyo metropolitan government office on Feb. 3, 2012. The drill, under the assumption that a large number of people have become stranded due to a magnitude 7.3 earthquake that has paralyzed Tokyo's public transportation system, involved 10,000 people in all and was conducted simultaneously in areas surrounding three of the Japanese capital's major train stations -- Shinjuku, Tokyo and Ikebukuro.

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Major disaster drill in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Aerial photo shows participants in a disaster drill walking home from a park near JR Ikebukuro train station in Tokyo on Feb. 3, 2012. The drill, under the assumption that a large number of people have become stranded due to a magnitude 7.3 earthquake that has paralyzed Tokyo's public transportation system, involved 10,000 people in all and was conducted simultaneously in areas surrounding three of the Japanese capital's major train stations -- Shinjuku, Tokyo and Ikebukuro.

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Sumo wrestlers throw beans at temple

NARITA, Japan - Mongolian grand champion Hakuho (R) and Estonian ozeki Baruto scatter beans during the annual Bean-Throwing Festival marking the lunar calendar start of spring at Naritasan Shinshoji Temple in Narita, northeast of Tokyo, on Feb. 3, 2012. People in Japan customarily throw beans to drive away demons and welcome good luck at traditional ''setsubun'' events in early February.

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Major disaster drill in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Participants in a disaster drill gather in front of JR Shinjuku train station in Tokyo on Feb. 3, 2012. The drill, under the assumption that a large number of people have become stranded due to a magnitude 7.3 earthquake that has paralyzed Tokyo's public transportation system, involved 10,000 people in all and was conducted simultaneously in areas surrounding three of the Japanese capital's major train stations -- Shinjuku, Tokyo and Ikebukuro.

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Former Khmer Rouge chief jailer gets life imprisonment

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Monks line up in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Feb. 3, 2012, to enter court and hear the decision handed down in the trial of Kaing Guek Eav. The Supreme Chamber of the U.N.-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal sentenced the former prison chief to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity and war crimes, deeming him responsible for the deaths of more than 12,000 people at the torture center he ran between 1976 and 1979.

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Former Khmer Rouge chief jailer gets life imprisonment

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - People head for the court in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Feb. 3, 2012, to hear the decision in the trial of Kaing Guek Eav. The Supreme Chamber of the U.N.-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal sentenced the former prison chief to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity and war crimes, deeming him responsible for the deaths of more than 12,000 people at the torture center he ran between 1976 and 1979.

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Ice fishing on Lake Yamanaka

KOFU, Japan - A woman enjoys ice fishing on Lake Yamanaka in Yamanashi Prefecture on Feb. 3, 2012, as the lake smelt fishing season opened at a part of the east side of the lake the same day.

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Major disaster drill in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Evacuation information is displayed on a large screen in front of JR Shinjuku train station in Tokyo on Feb. 3, 2012, during a disaster drill. The drill, under the assumption that a large number of people have become unable to return home due to a magnitude 7.3 earthquake that has paralyzed Tokyo's public transportation system, involved 10,000 people in all and was conducted simultaneously in areas surrounding three of the Japanese capital's major train stations -- Shinjuku, Tokyo and Ikebukuro.

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Gov't raid on AUM splinter group

TOKYO, Japan - Officials from the Justice Ministry's Public Security Intelligence Agency walk into a facility of Hikari no Wa (Circle of Rainbow Light), a splinter group of the AUM Shinrikyo cult known for its sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system in 1995, in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward on Feb. 3, 2012. The inspection of the group led by former senior AUM member Fumihiro Joyu was based on the law allowing the government to put groups that have been involved with an indiscriminate mass murder under surveillance.

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Ice fishing on Lake Yamanaka

KOFU, Japan - People take part in ice fishing on frozen Lake Yamanaka in Yamanashi Prefecture on Feb. 3, 2012, as the lake smelt fishing season opened at a part of the east side of the lake the same day. A snowcapped Mt. Fuji is seen in the background.

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Gov't raid on AUM splinter group

TOKYO, Japan - Officials from the Justice Ministry's Public Security Intelligence Agency walk into a facility of Hikari no Wa (Circle of Rainbow Light), a splinter group of the AUM Shinrikyo cult known for its sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system in 1995, in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward on Feb. 3, 2012. The inspection of the group led by former senior AUM member Fumihiro Joyu was based on the law allowing the government to put groups that have been involved with an indiscriminate mass murder under surveillance.

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Ex-upper house lawmaker Tomobe dies at 83

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in May 1995 shows Tatsuo Tomobe, a former House of Councillors member who was convicted of fraud and expelled from parliament in 2001. Tomobe died on Jan. 28, 2012, in Tokyo, police said Feb. 3, 2012. He was 83.

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UNDP's ecotourism survey on disputed Russian-held island

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Photo shows questionnaires for a survey by the U.N. Development Program of residents of a Russian-held island, known as Kunashiri in Japan, off Hokkaido. The survey has been launched at Moscow's request mainly to promote ecotourism to the Kurilsky State Nature Reserve on the island, Kyodo News learned Feb. 3, 2012. In Japan, which also claims sovereignty over Kunashiri and other disputed islands in the area, the government urges Japanese not to travel there on Russian visas as doing so would be tantamount to recognizing Moscow's rule over the islands.

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Major disaster drill in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Participants in a disaster drill, acting as people who have become unable to return home due to a magnitude 7.3 earthquake that has paralyzed Tokyo's public transportation system, are led into the Isetan department store in Shinjuku Ward on Feb. 3, 2012. The drill, in which 10,000 people took part, was conducted simultaneously in areas surrounding three of the Japanese capital's major train stations -- Shinjuku, Tokyo and Ikebukuro.

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Panasonic head office in Osaka Pref.

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken in January 2012 shows the head office of electronics maker Panasonic Corp. in Kadoma, Osaka Prefecture. Panasonic is expected to book a record group net loss of over 700 billion yen in fiscal 2011 through March 31, 2012, deeper than a 420 billion yen loss it previously estimated, sources familiar with the matter said Feb. 3, 2012.

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Nippon Steel, Sumitomo Metal to merge

TOKYO, Japan - Nippon Steel Corp. President Shoji Muneoka (L center) and Sumitomo Metal Industries Ltd. President Hiroshi Tomono (R center) speak to reporters after a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 3, 2011. The No. 1 and No. 3 steelmakers in Japan announced the same day their plan to merge by Oct. 1, 2012, to become the world's second-largest steelmaker in terms of crude steel production capacity.

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Nippon Steel, Sumitomo Metal to integrate management

TOKYO, Japan - Nippon Steel Corp. President Shoji Muneoka (L) and Sumitomo Metal Industries Ltd. President Hiroshi Tomono shake hands prior to a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 3, 2011. The No. 1 and No. 3 steelmakers in Japan announced the same day their plan to integrate their management in October 2012 to become the world's second-largest steelmaker in terms of crude steel production capacity.