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Antinuclear protests in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Protesters gather with banners and signs near the prime minister's office on Feb. 8, 2013, in Tokyo's Kasumigaseki government district, vocal throughout two-hour protests as they call for an end to reliance on nuclear power generation following the March 2011 Fukushima disaster.

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U.N. Forest Hero

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Shigeatsu Hatakeyama, a Japanese environmental preservation activist in Miyagi Prefecture, one of the areas hardest hit by the March 11, 2011, disaster. The United Nations Forum on Forests said on Feb. 8, 2012, that Hatakeyama has been selected to win its Forest Hero award for the Asian region as a contributor to sustainable forest management.

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Hawaiian-style spa in Fukushima Pref. to fully resume

IWAKI, Japan - Members of a hula dancing team at a Hawaiian-style spa leisure complex in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, and other employees cheer on Jan. 30, 2012, before the full-scale reopening of the Spa Resort Hawaiians complex on Feb. 8, 2012. The facility damaged by the March 2011 earthquake has partially resumed its operation since October 2011.

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Paper cranes for missing coach

TOYAMA, Japan - Yuki Hattori, 11, looks at paper cranes, a symbol of hope and peace in Japan, created by him and other elementary and middle school children whose fencing coach Yurika Uchihira, 19, is one of the students missing in the aftermath of the Feb. 22 earthquake in New Zealand, at a gymnasium in Toyama on March 8, 2011. The students wrote letters to Uchihira and folded them into cranes, in a gesture of hope for her return.

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Making ethanol from noodles

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Photo taken on Feb. 8, 2011, shows experimental equipment to produce bioethanol from ''udon'' noodles, built by Chiyoda Manufacturing Co. in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture. The western Japanese prefecture is known for Sanuki udon noodles.

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U.S. backs Toyota in acceleration problems

WASHINGTON, United States - U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood speaks at a press conference on Feb. 8, 2011, at the U.S. Transportation Department in Washington. The department said its joint 10-month investigation with NASA found that there was no electronics-based cause for unintended high-speed acceleration in Toyota Motor Corp. vehicles, supporting the Japanese automaker's position.

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Posing with Prince William

LONDON, Britain - American artist Jennifer Rubell poses with her waxwork Prince William of Britain, on Feb. 8, 2011, in London's Stephen Friedman Gallery. The wax figure, clad in a navy suit resembling the one worn by the prince on the day he announced his engagement along with his fiance Kate Middleton last November, comes with a replica of the engagement ring given to Middleton, which visitors can wear when taking photos with it.

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Protest in Egypt

CAIRO, Egypt - Antigovernment protesters gather in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, on Feb. 8, 2011.

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ASEAN mediates Thai-Cambodian border dispute

BANGKOK, Thailand - Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa (R) and Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya speak to reporters after their meeting in Bangkok on Feb. 8, 2011. Natalegawa visited Thailand after Cambodia in an effort to mediate in a border dispute between the two countries. Indonesia currently chairs the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

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U.S. envoy on N. Korea rights issues in S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - Robert King (L), a U.S. special envoy for North Korean human rights issues, and Wi Sung Lac (R), the South's chief nuclear envoy to the stalled six-party talks aimed at ending the North's nuclear weapons program, meet in Seoul on Feb. 8, 2011.

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Watami chairman mulls Tokyo gubernatorial race run

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Miki Watanabe, chairman of restaurant chain operator Watami Co., who was reported on Feb. 8, 2011 to be mulling running in the Tokyo gubernatorial race in April. Watanabe has reportedly asked for support from Your Party.

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Protest in Egypt

CAIRO, Egypt - Some antigovernment protesters pray in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, on Feb. 8, 2011.

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Protest in Cairo

CAIRO, Egypt - Antigovernment protesters pray in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, on Feb. 8, 2011.

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Toyota lifts earnings projections

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. Senior Managing Director Takahiko Ijichi (R) and Managing Officer Shigeru Hayakawa attend a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 8, 2011. The automaker revised upward its group earnings forecasts for the current business year to March 2011 on increasing sales in emerging markets as well as cost-cutting efforts.

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Myanmar refugee camp in Thailand

MAE SOT, Thailand - Photo shows Camp Mera in northwestern Thailand for refugees from Myanmar on Feb. 8, 2011. A Japanese government mission plans to begin interviewing refugees who want to go to Japan from the next day.

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Gigantic billboard for chocolate bar contends for world record

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Feb. 8, 2011, shows a big billboard -- about 166 meters in width and 28 m in height -- in the form of a chocolate bar in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture. Confectionery maker Meiji Seika Kaisha Ltd. set up the billboard along the outer surface of its factory ahead of Valentine's Day on Feb. 14 when it is customary in Japan for women to give chocolates to men. The company has applied to Guinness World Records for the billboard to be registered as the world's biggest advertising board made of plastic.

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Snow shoveling by volunteers

YONAGO, Japan - Volunteer workers clear away snow at an elderly person's house in the town of Daisen, Tottori Prefecture, in western Japan, on Feb. 8, 2011. The area has been hit by heavy snow this winter.

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2 Koreas lay groundwork for high-level military talks

SEOUL, South Korea - Three representatives of the South Korean military on Feb. 8, 2011, stand in front of a Unification Ministry building in Seoul ahead of their departure for the inter-Korean truce village of Panmunjeom to discuss with their North Korean counterparts details for a proposed meeting of high-level defense officials between South and North Korea. The colonel-level talks are the first inter-Korean meeting since the North's deadly artillery attack on a South Korean border island in November 2010.

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Ex-exec of hotel operator held over fraud

ATAMI, Japan - Photo taken on Feb. 8, 2011, shows Atami Okamoto Hotel in Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture. A former chairman of the hotel operator, Okamoto Hotel Systems, and two others were arrested the previous day on suspicion of defrauding elderly investors of their deposits by promising high returns on their resort club membership.

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Nintendo 3DS unveiled

CHIBA, Japan - Children play with Nintendo 3DS devices during an event held at Makuhari Messe in Chiba on Jan. 8, 2011. Nintendo Co. plans to begin its sales of the 3-D gaming device on Feb. 26 at the price of 25,000 yen in Japan.