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B-787 'Dreamliner' in Osaka

ITAMI, Japan - A state-of-the-art Boeing 787 ''Dreamliner'' takes off from Osaka airport in western Japan on July 5, 2011. The airplane will be put into service by All Nippon Airways Co. as early as September.

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Electric car completes 555-km no-recharge run

OSAKA, Japan - A man poses in an electric vehicle of the citizens group Japan Electric Vehicle Club in Itami, Hyogo Prefecture, on Nov. 18, 2009. The vehicle, based on Daihatsu Motor Co.'s Mira, ran for 555.6 kilometers from Tokyo to Osaka the previous day without recharging.

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China's Hu leaves Japan

ITAMI, Japan - A special Air China flight carrying Chinese President Hu Jintao leaves Osaka International Airport on May 10. Hu concluded a five-day trip to Japan -- the first visit by a Chinese head of state in a decade.

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Vigil in Kobe to mark 13th anniversary of Hanshin Earthquake

ITAMI, Japan - A woman and her two children light candles at Koyaike park in Itami, Hyogo Prefecture, on Jan. 16 as part of memorial events to mark the 13th anniversary of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake, a magnitude 7.3 temblor which devastated the Kobe region on Jan. 17, 1995, killing 6,434 people, injuring 44,000 and flattening 105,000 houses

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Memorial gathering held for victims of 1995 Hanshin Earthquake

ITAMI, Japan - People pray for the victims of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake at a park in Itami, Hyogo Prefecture, on Jan. 16. Candles are placed in a shape to depict a person spreading ''wings'' to the heavens.

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Memorial gathering held for victims of 1995 Hanshin Earthquake

ITAMI, Japan - A girl places a candle in a memorial gathering at a park in Itami, Hyogo Prefecture, on Jan. 16. Candles will be lit until 5:46 a.m. on Jan. 17, the time the earthquake occurred.

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People pray for victims of Great Hanshin Earthquake

ITAMI, Japan - People light some 6,000 candles and pray for the victims of the 1995 Gread Hanshin Earthquake at Koyaike Park in Itami, Hyogo Prefecture, on Jan. 16, the eve of the 7th anniversary of the quake which killed over 6,400 people.