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N. Korea purges leader's uncle

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Jang Song Thaek (L), uncle of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (R) and a vice chairman of the National Defense Commission, after viewing a military parade during a ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the birth of the late leader and Kim's father Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang on Feb. 16, 2012. North Korea said Dec. 9, 2013, that Jang, widely seen as the second most powerful figure in the country after Kim, has been stripped of all his posts for committing "anti-party" and "counter-revolutionary factional acts."

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U.S. nuclear regulator OKs reactor construction

WASHINGTON, United States - Five commissioners of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission attend a hearing at the NRC headquarters in the suburbs of Washington on Feb. 9, 2012. The commission approved the construction of new nuclear reactors for the first time in 34 years, licensing two additional reactors at a plant in Georgia. The decision by a 4-1 vote, with the opposition cast by Chairman Gregory Jaczko (C), authorizes Westinghouse Electric Co., a subsidiary of Toshiba Corp., to build and operate the new reactors at Georgia's Vogtle nuclear plant.

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Tesla's Model X

LOS ANGELES, United States - Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Motors Inc., unveils the Model X, the company's first electric sport-utility vehicle, near Los Angeles on Feb. 9, 2012.

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Chocolates supporting disaster-hit areas

SENDAI, Japan - A woman shows chocolates (L) made with six different types of Japanese sake brewed in Miyagi Prefecture, hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, and chocolates (R) made with honey produced in Sendai, the prefectural capital, at the Fujisaki department store in Sendai on Feb. 9, 2012.

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Four Continents Figure Skating Championships

COLORADO SPRINGS, United States - Japan's Takahito Mura performs during the men's short program of the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Feb. 9, 2012. Mura came in second in the short program after Canada's world champion Patrick Chan.

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Four Continents Figure Skating Championships

COLORADO SPRINGS, United States - Japan's Daisuke Takahashi performs during the men's short program of the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Feb. 9, 2012. The defending champion came in third at the short program.

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Nuclear power plant in Fessenheim, France

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in March 2011 shows the Fessenheim nuclear power plant in Fessenheim, eastern France. French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited the plant Feb. 9, 2012, and said before its workers he will not shut down the country's oldest nuclear plant that began operating in 1977.

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agnes b. designer at U.N.

NEW YORK, United States - Agnes Trouble, designer of French fashion brand agnes b., gives a press conference at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Feb. 9, 2012. She called for educating children about the environment to help prevent global warming from affecting the oceans.

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Maruti Suzuki's Swift Dzire

MUMBAI, India - Shinzo Nakanishi, managing director of Maruti Suzuki India Ltd., unveils the new Swift Dzire in Mumbai, western India, on Feb. 1, 2012. The subsidiary of Japanese automaker Suzuki Motor Corp. and India's biggest automaker announced Feb. 9, 2012, that it has sold over 10 million passenger cars in India since starting operations in December 1983.

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U.N. forest hero

NEW YORK, United States - Japan's fisherman-turned-environmentalist Shigeatsu Hatakeyama holds the English version of his book before a ceremony for six recipients including him of the United Nations Forum on Forests' Forest Hero award at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Feb. 9, 2012. Hatakeyama, from Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, is founder and chairman of Mori wa Umi no Koibito (Forests are Lovers of the Sea), a nonprofit environmental conservation organization. Kesennuma is one of the areas hardest-hit by the March 2011 tsunami.

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Ex-Maldives president Nasheed

MALE, Maldives - Mohamed Nasheed, the ousted former president of the Maldives, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News at his home in the Maldives' capital Male on Feb. 9, 2012. He said that an arrest warrant for him is illegitimate and cannot be accepted.

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China's natural gas extraction in East China Sea

NAHA, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 9, 2012, from a plane chartered by Kyodo News shows China's mobile boring facility near what Tokyo claims to be the median line between the overlapping exclusive economic zones of Japan and China in the East China Sea. On Jan. 31, Japan protested against China possibly drilling for natural gas in the East China Sea, arguing that the move violates their agreement to jointly develop gas resources in the disputed area.

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China's natural gas extraction in East China Sea

NAHA, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 9, 2012, from a plane chartered by Kyodo News shows China's mobile boring facility near what Tokyo claims to be the median line between the overlapping exclusive economic zones of Japan and China in the East China Sea. On Jan. 31, Japan protested against China possibly drilling for natural gas in the East China Sea, arguing that the move violates their agreement to jointly develop gas resources in the disputed area.

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China's natural gas extraction in East China Sea

NAHA, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 9, 2012, from a plane chartered by Kyodo News shows a flare (far L) from the tip of a pipe in a natural gas extraction facility in a gas field known as Kashi in Japan and Tianwaitian in China, near what Tokyo claims to be the median line between the overlapping exclusive economic zones of Japan and China in the East China Sea. On Jan. 31, Japan protested against China possibly drilling for natural gas in the East China Sea, arguing that the move violates their agreement to jointly develop gas resources in the disputed area.

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Refugees from Myanmar in China

NONGDAO, China - Children attend a class in a school inside a refugee camp in Nongdao, Yunnan Province, in southwestern China bordering Myanmar on Feb. 9, 2012. More than 1,000 people have fled there from fighting between Myanmar's military and the Kachin Independence Army rebel group in northern Myanmar.

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China's natural gas extraction in East China Sea

NAHA, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 9, 2012, from a plane chartered by Kyodo News shows a natural gas extraction facility in a gas field known as Shirakaba in Japan and Chunxiao in China, near what Tokyo claims to be the median line between the overlapping exclusive economic zones of Japan and China in the East China Sea. On Jan. 31, Japan protested against China possibly drilling for natural gas in the East China Sea, arguing that the move violates their agreement to jointly develop gas resources in the disputed area.

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Refugees from Myanmar in China

NONGDAO, China - Photo taken Feb. 9, 2012, shows people who live in a refugee camp in Nongdao, Yunnan Province, in southwestern China bordering Myanmar. More than 1,000 people have fled there from fighting between Myanmar's military and the Kachin Independence Army rebel group in northern Myanmar.

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Refugees from Myanmar in China

NONGDAO, China - A boy takes care of a child in a refugee camp in Nongdao, Yunnan Province, in southwestern China bordering Myanmar on Feb. 9, 2012. More than 1,000 people have fled there from fighting between Myanmar's military and the Kachin Independence Army rebel group in northern Myanmar.

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Refugees from Myanmar in China

NONGDAO, China - Photo taken Feb. 9, 2012, shows tents comprising a refugee camp in Nongdao, Yunnan Province, in southwestern China bordering Myanmar. More than 1,000 people have fled there from fighting between Myanmar's military and the Kachin Independence Army rebel group in northern Myanmar.

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China's natural gas extraction in East China Sea

NAHA, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 9, 2012, from a plane chartered by Kyodo News shows a flare (L front) from the tip of a pipe in a natural gas extraction facility in a gas field known as Kashi in Japan and Tianwaitian in China, near what Tokyo claims to be the median line between the overlapping exclusive economic zones of Japan and China in the East China Sea. On Jan. 31, Japan protested against China possibly drilling for natural gas in the East China Sea, arguing that the move violates their agreement to jointly develop gas resources in the disputed area.

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Refugees from Myanmar in China

NONGDAO, China - Photo taken Feb. 9, 2012, shows a woman and children in a refugee camp in Nongdao, Yunnan Province, in southwestern China bordering Myanmar. More than 1,000 people have fled there from fighting between Myanmar's military and the Kachin Independence Army rebel group in northern Myanmar.

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Decontamination waste in Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Waste from work to decontaminate areas hit by radioactive substances from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station is gathered at a baseball park in the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Feb. 9, 2012.

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China's natural gas extraction in East China Sea

NAHA, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 9, 2012, from a plane chartered by Kyodo News shows a natural gas field known as Shirakaba in Japan and Chunxiao in China, near what Tokyo claims to be the median line between the overlapping exclusive economic zones of Japan and China in the East China Sea. On Jan. 31, Japan protested against China possibly drilling for natural gas in the East China Sea, arguing that the move violates their agreement to jointly develop gas resources in the disputed area.

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Mitsubishi SUV Outlander

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Mitsubishi Motors Corp.'s Outlander sports utility vehicle. The automaker announced Feb. 9, 2012, that it will launch a plug-in hybrid model of the Outlander within fiscal 2012 ending in March 2013. The model is expected to become the first commercial plug-in hybrid SUV, according to the automaker.

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Radiation near Fukushima plant

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - A dosimeter shows the radiation level topping 80 microsieverts per hour in a forest in the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, adjacent to the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station on Feb. 9, 2012.

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Reconstruction minister Hirano

TOKYO, Japan - Tatsuo Hirano, minister in charge of reconstruction from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, enters the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Feb. 9, 2012. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda the same day appointed Hirano as head of a new agency to bolster efforts to rebuild areas ravaged by the natural disaster.

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Former education minister Nakagawa

TOKYO, Japan - Masaharu Nakagawa, former education, culture, sports, science and technology minister, enters the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Feb. 9, 2012. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda the same day appointed Nakagawa as minister in charge of disaster management, as well as of the falling birthrate and gender equality.

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Canon Chairman Mitarai

NEW DELHI, India - Canon Inc. Chairman Fujio Mitarai speaks with reporters near New Delhi in India on Feb. 9, 2012, disclosing a plan to triple the company's sales in India to about 77.2 billion yen in 2015 from 23.4 billion yen in 2011.

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China's natural gas extraction in East China Sea

NAHA, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 9, 2012, from a plane chartered by Kyodo News shows China's mobile boring facility near what Tokyo claims to be the median line between the overlapping exclusive economic zones of Japan and China in the East China Sea. On Jan. 31, Japan protested against China possibly drilling for natural gas in the East China Sea, arguing that the move violates their agreement to jointly develop gas resources in the disputed area.

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Okinawa Gov. Nakaima in Diet building

TOKYO, Japan - Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima answers questions from reporters in the Diet building in Tokyo on Feb. 9, 2012, after meeting with Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and members of his Cabinet to listen to the central government's plan for legal revisions aimed at promoting economic development in Okinawa.

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China's natural gas extraction in East China Sea

NAHA, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 9, 2012, from a plane chartered by Kyodo News shows a flare (C) from the tip of a pipe in a natural gas extraction facility in a gas field known as Kashi in Japan and Tianwaitian in China, near what Tokyo claims to be the median line between the overlapping exclusive economic zones of Japan and China in the East China Sea. On Jan. 31, Japan protested against China possibly drilling for natural gas in the East China Sea, arguing that the move violates their agreement to jointly develop gas resources in the disputed area.

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New Audi A6 Avant

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Audi AG's remodeled high-end station wagon the A6 Avant in Tokyo on Feb. 9, 2012. Audi Japan K.K., the Japanese unit of the German automaker, announced the same day that it will start sales of the model with a lighter body and improved fuel efficiency from late February 2012.

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Civic group seeking referendums on nuclear power

TOKYO, Japan - Hajime Imai, secretary general of civic group Let's Decide Together/Citizen-initiated National Referendum on Nuclear Power, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 9, 2012. The group seeking a referendum on whether to keep nuclear power plants said it has collected enough signatures to ask the Tokyo metropolitan government to hold a plebiscite on the issue.

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Seoul Mayor Park in interview

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Seoul Mayor Park Won Soon speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Yokohama on Feb. 9, 2012. Park said he intends to promote energy saving and use of solar power in the South Korean capital while building closer ties with Japanese municipalities to strengthen the city's disaster prevention capabilities.

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Nishikori to play Karlovic in Davis Cup match

KOBE, Japan - Japan's Kei Nishikori (L) and Croatia's Ivo Karlovic shake hands in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, on Feb. 9, 2012, a day before their singles match on the first day of Davis Cup World Group first round action.

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Tourism promotion

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka Gov. Ichiro Matsui shortly before leaving Kansai International Airport near Osaka on Feb. 9, 2012, for Shanghai to attend a ceremonial event to launch the western Japan prefecture's tourism promotion campaign.