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Myanmar's 1988 uprising leader speaks in Yangon

TOKYO, Japan - Min Ko Naing, the student leader of the 1988 prodemocracy movement in Myanmar, speaks at a press conference in Yangon in January 2012. He arrived in Japan for the first time on Nov. 28, 2014.

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Chef says Japanese cuisine being enjoyed in Europe

GENEVA, Switzerland - Photo taken Feb. 28, 2014 in St. Moritz shows Yoshihiro Takahashi, a chef at Hyotei, an established restaurant in Kyoto serving traditional Japanese cuisine, who took part in St. Moritz Gourmet Festival 2014, a food event that brought together top-class chefs from around the world in the Swiss resort town in January.

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Japanese baseball legend Kawakami dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo from January 2001 shows Japanese baseball legend Tetsuharu Kawakami. The former Yomiuri Giants slugger and manager died aged 93 at a hospital in western Tokyo on Oct. 28, 2013.

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Ainu party gives up fielding candidates

SAPPORO, Japan - Shiro Kayano, leader of the Ainu Party of Japan, is pictured in Biratori, Hokkaido in northern Japan, on June 28, 2013. His party, launched in January 2012 to better represent Japan's indigenous Ainu people, has given up its plan to field 10 candidates in the July 21 House of Councillors election after failing to collect sufficient campaign funds.

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Boeing explains plan to fix 787 battery problem

TOKYO, Japan - Ray Conner, president of Boeing Co.'s commercial airplane division, visits Japan's transport ministry in Tokyo on Feb. 28, 2013. Boeing explained to Japanese transport regulators its plan to fix the volatile lithium-ion battery used in its 787 Dreamliner, after one operated by All Nippon Airways Co. was forced to make an emergency landing in January.

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Boeing explains plan to fix 787 battery problem

TOKYO, Japan - Ray Conner, president of Boeing Co.'s commercial airplane division, meets the press at Japan's transport ministry in Tokyo on Feb. 28, 2013. Boeing explained to Japanese transport regulators its plan to fix the volatile lithium-ion battery used in its 787 Dreamliner, after one operated by All Nippon Airways Co. was forced to make an emergency landing in January.

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Ex-Panasonic President Yamashita dies at 92

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in January 1977 shows Toshihiko Yamashita, former president of Panasonic Corp. Yamashita died of old age on Feb. 28, 2012. He was 92.

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JAL chief Onishi

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Airlines Corp. President Masaru Onishi (L) and Chairman Kazuo Inamori hold a press conference in Tokyo on March 28, 2011, announcing that the company has completed a court-backed rehabilitation process after filing for bankruptcy protection in January 2010.

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Actress Hideko Takamine dies at 86

TOKYO, Japan - This January 1953 file photo shows actress Hideko Takamine, who died of lung cancer in a Tokyo hospital on Dec. 28, 2010, at the age of 86. Takamine was known for her appearances in numerous movies in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Takaaki Kato

Born Jan. 3, 1860 and died Jan. 28, 1926. Kato served as Japan's 24th prime minister, from June 11, 1924 to Jan. 28, 1926. When serving as foreign minister in the cabinet of Shigenobu Okuma in January 1915, Kato sent the so-called ''21 demands'' to China, arousing fierce opposition both at home and abroad over Japan's attempt to secure hegemony over China. Kato's cabinet achieved the passage of the Universal Manhood Suffrage Law in April 1925, which granted the vote to all male citizens over the age of 25.

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Morihiro Hosokawa

Born in January 1938, Hosokawa is a descendant of the Hosokawa daimyos, or feudal lords, who ruled Kumamoto, southern Japan, from 1632 to 1868. His grandfather Prince Fumimaro Konoe was prime minister from 1937 to 1939 and again from 1940 to 1941. Only one year and three months after launching his conservative Japan New Party with the aim of reorganizing Japan's political scene, Hosokawa became prime minister on Aug. 9, 1933, leading Japan's first coalition government in more than four decades. After serving as prime minister until April 28, 1994, he retired from politics in 1998.

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Ready for Olympics

Minami Nagano, Nagano City, ready for Nagano Winter Olympics. (Picture taken on January 28, 1998)