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U.S. Marines send 2 Osprey aircraft to Sapporo amid local protests

TOKYO, Japan - Two U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey aircraft from the U.S. base in Iwakuni in western Japan stop over at Yokota Air Base in Tokyo for refueling on July 19, 2014, on their way to Sapporo in Hokkaido. It was the first time an MV-22 had flown to the Tokyo area since the tilt-rotor aircraft's deployment in Japan in 2012.

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Maruti Suzuki to resume production at Manesar

NEW DELHI, India - File photo taken July 19, 2012, shows the area at the Indian-Japanese carmaker Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.'s car factory in Manesar, in India's northern state of Haryana, where workers rioted and set fire to plant equipment the previous day, killing one employee and injuring around 90 others. The carmaker said Aug. 16, 2012, it will resume operations at the Manesar plant on Aug. 21.

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Greek tourism marred by political instability

ATHENS, Greece - Tourists visit the Acropolis ancient remains in Athens on July 19, 2012. Greek tourism has been in a slump apparently against the backdrop of concerns over political instability.

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Greek tourism marred by political instability

ATHENS, Greece - Tourists visit the Acropolis ancient remains in Athens on July 19, 2012. Greek tourism has been in a slump apparently against the backdrop of concerns over political instability.

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Imported farm eels

HAMAMATSU, Japan - Photo taken on July 19, 2012, in Hamamatsu city, Japan, shows a farm-grown eel, imported from Madagascar by a trading house in the city. Almost all eels consumed in Japan are sourced from farms both domestic and abroad.

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Turtle with transmitter released from Kagoshima beach

AMAMI, Japan - A loggerhead turtle with a transmitter attached to its shell is released on a beach in the town of Tatsugo, Kagoshima Prefecture, on July 19, 2012.

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Ginza cinema to close

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the entrance of an underground mall housing Ginza Cine Pathos, the only movie theater that screens old classic films in Tokyo's Ginza area on July 19, 2012. The cinema is due to close at the end of March 2013, ending its 45-year history.

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Ginza cinema to close

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Ginza Cine Pathos, the only movie theater that screens old classic films in Tokyo's Ginza area on July 19, 2012. The cinema is due to close at the end of March 2013, ending its 45-year history.

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Ginza cinema to close

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the entrance of an underground mall housing Ginza Cine Pathos, the only movie theater that screens old classic films in Tokyo's Ginza area on July 19, 2012. The cinema is due to close at the end of March 2013, ending its 45-year history.

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London Eye lit up before Olympics

LONDON, Britain - Tourists look at the London Eye, illuminated in the colors of the British flag, in London on July 19, 2012, eight days before the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.

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Japanese girl makes history at Junior Open

LYTHAM ST. ANNES, Britain - Japan's Asuka Kashiwabara makes V-signs during a press conference at the Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club in Lytham St. Annes, England, on July 19, 2012, after winning the Royal & Ancient Junior Open by 14 strokes the previous day. She became the first girl to win the tournament open to boys and girls aged 16 and under.

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Turkish economy minister in interview

TOKYO, Japan - Turkish Economy Minister Zafer Caglayan is interviewed by Kyodo News in Tokyo on July 19, 2012.

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London Eye lit up before Olympics

LONDON, Britain - The London Eye is illuminated in the colors of the British flag, in London on July 19, 2012, eight days before the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.

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Eel from Madagascar

HAMAMATSU, Japan - Photo shows a farmed eel imported from Madagascar by a trading house in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on July 19, 2012. Many Japanese eat eels as an energy-rich food in summer.

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Turkish economy minister in interview

TOKYO, Japan - Turkish Economy Minister Zafer Caglayan is interviewed by Kyodo News in Tokyo on July 19, 2012.

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TEPCO finishes trial removal of unused fuel

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on July 19, 2012, shows the No. 4 reactor building at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture. TEPCO said the same day it has finished the trial removal of two unused nuclear fuel assemblies from a fuel storage pool at the badly damaged No. 4 reactor unit without any major trouble.

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Tokyo's 2020 Olympic bid committee unveils slogan

TOKYO, Japan - Tsunekazu Takeda (L), chairman of the committee organizing Tokyo's bid to host the 2020 Olympic Games, and others unveil its overseas slogan, "Discover Tomorrow," during a press conference in Tokyo on July 19, 2012.

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London busy before Olympics

LONDON, Britain - British soldiers walk in London on July 19, 2012, eight days before the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. They were called out to guard Olympic Park.

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London busy before Olympics

LONDON, Britain - People leave the Olympic Stadium in Olympic Park in London on July 19, 2012, after participating in a rehearsal of the opening ceremony to be held in the venue on July 27.

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Toyota uses Singapore as test ground for 1-seater electric vehicle

SINGAPORE, Singapore - Japan's Toyota Tsusho Corp. launches a project on July 19, 2012, to test COMS, a single-seat electric vehicle, at the campus of the National University of Singapore. The super-compact electric vehicle was made by Toyota Auto Body Co., part of the Toyota group, for the Southeast Asian market.

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Bunraku faces crisis

OSAKA, Japan - Performers of the Bunraku puppet theater promote the Japanese traditional shows at JR Osaka Station in Osaka on July 19, 2012. Bunraku is facing a crisis as the city of Osaka, a major patron, has threatened to cut off its financial support.

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London busy before Olympics

LONDON, Britain - People visit Trafalgar Square in London on July 19, 2012, eight days before the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. A countdown board of the Paralympic Games is seen in the lower right.

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Tokyo Tower gets shorter for 1st time

TOKYO, Japan - Combination photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Tokyo Tower (L) at 333-meters tall in February 2012, and the same tower at 315-meter-tall on July 19, 2012. It shrank due to recently started work to replace antenna equipment atop the structure damaged by the massive March 2011 earthquake. It is expected to regain its previous height when the work is complete in mid-August.

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Maruti Suzuki plant where 1 killed, 90 injured in rampage

GURGAON, India - Photo taken July 19, 2012, shows the site at the Indian-Japanese carmaker Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.'s car factory in Manesar in India's northern state of Haryana, where workers rioted and set fire to plant equipment the previous day, killing one employee and injuring around 90 others. The labor rampage was apparently triggered by discriminatory slurs against an Indian worker.

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London busy before Olympics

LONDON, Britain - People gather around a London Olympic countdown board at Trafalgar Square in London on July 19, 2012, eight days before the Olympic Games opening ceremony.

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Maruti Suzuki plant where 1 killed, 90 injured in rampage

GURGAON, India - Photo taken July 19, 2012, shows the entrance of the Indian-Japanese carmaker Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.'s car factory in Manesar in India's northern state of Haryana. Workers at the plant rioted and set fire to plant equipment the previous day, killing one employee and injuring around 90 others in a labor rampage apparently triggered by discriminatory slurs against an Indian worker.

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Asteroid named Iitatemura

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Hiroaki Ono (L), head of the Hoshinomura astronomical observatory in Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture, hands to Norio Kanno, mayor of the village of Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, a certificate made by Ono stating that an asteroid has been recognized as having the name "Iitatemura" (the village of Iitate) by the International Astronomical Union, at a village government office on July 19, 2012. Ono named the asteroid after the village, which came under evacuation orders due to the nuclear crisis.

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Woods at British Open

LYTHAM ST. ANNES, Britain - Tiger Woods tees off on the first hole of the first round of the British Open at Lytham St. Annes in England on July 19, 2012.

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Son of Japanese man who remained in Philippines

OITA, Japan - Carlos Toshimitsu, 76, the son of a Japanese man who went to the Philippines before the Pacific War, hugs one of his relatives at Oita airport on July 19, 2012, during a visit to Japan to obtain Japanese nationality. Toshimitsu visited the birthplace of his father, Wahei Toshimitsu, in the city of Oita in southern Japan before leaving for the Philippines on July 22.

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Gen. Aung San memorial

YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (R) attends a memorial ceremony for her father, Gen. Aung San, at his tomb in Yangon on July 19, 2012, the 65th anniversary of his assassination in 1947.

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Gen. Aung San memorial

YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (center R) lays baskets of flowers in front of the tomb in Yangon of her father, Gen. Aung San, during a memorial ceremony on July 19, 2012, the 65th anniversary of his assassination in 1947.

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Danish variety shop Tiger to open 1st Asia outlet in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows inside the first outlet in Asia of the Danish variety store chain Tiger in Osaka on July 19, 2012, after the Scandinavian shop invited the press to a viewing of its finished interior prior to its weekend opening.

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Emperor, empress in quake-hit village

SAKAE, Japan - Emperor Akihito (C) and Empress Michiko (L) visit the village government office of Sakae, Nagano Prefecture, on July 19, 2012. The village was hit by a strong earthquake a day after the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan.

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Danish variety shop Tiger to open 1st Asia outlet in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows inside the first outlet in Asia of the Danish variety store chain Tiger in Osaka on July 19, 2012, after the Scandinavian shop invited the press to a viewing of its finished interior prior to its weekend opening.

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China-Africa forum

BEIJING, China - Chinese President Hu Jintao (front) and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon (R) attend a ministerial conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on July 19, 2012.

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China-Africa forum

BEIJING, China - Chinese President Hu Jintao speaks at a ministerial conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on July 19, 2012.

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China-Africa forum

BEIJING, China - Chinese President Hu Jintao (C) and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon (R to Hu) attend a ministerial conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on July 19, 2012.

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Disaster mitigation drill for Tokyo quake

TOKYO, Japan - Members of Japan's Self-Defense Forces and U.S. forces hold a joint disaster reduction drill at the Ground Self-Defense Force Eastern Army's Asaka garrison on July 19, 2012, in simulation of a major quake hitting the Tokyo metropolitan area.

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Disaster mitigation drill for Tokyo quake

TOKYO, Japan - Members of Japan's Self-Defense Forces and U.S. forces hold a joint disaster reduction drill at the Ground Self-Defense Force Eastern Army's Asaka garrison on July 19, 2012, in simulation of a major quake hitting the Tokyo metropolitan area.

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China-Africa forum

BEIJING, China - A ministerial conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation is held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on July 19, 2012.

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Letters from Briton murdered in 1862

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Photo shows a letter written by Charles Richardson, a British man murdered by samurai in 1862 in the so-called Namamugi Incident. His letters were among items displayed in the Namamugi Incident exhibition that began at a museum in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, on July 19, 2012.

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Letters from Briton murdered in 1862

YOKOHAMA, Japan - People view items in the Namamugi Incident exhibition that began at a museum in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, on July 19, 2012. Among items on display are letters written by Charles Richardson, a British man murdered by samurai in 1862 in the so-called Namamugi Incident.

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Oi reactor regains criticality

OI, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the No. 4 reactor (front) of the Oi nuclear power station in Fukui Prefecture on July 19, 2012. The reactor reached criticality that morning following its reactivation the night before by its operator, Kansai Electric Power Co. The reactor is the second to go back online after all of Japan's commercial reactors were taken offline for regular checks in the wake of the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis. The first to resume operation was the Oi plant's No. 3 reactor (back) which was brought to full operation on July 9.

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Danish variety shop Tiger to open 1st Asia outlet in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows the first outlet in Asia of the Danish variety store chain Tiger in Osaka on July 19, 2012, after the Scandinavian shop invited the press to a viewing of its finished interior prior to its weekend opening.

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Oi reactor regains criticality

OI, Japan - Photo shows the No. 4 reactor (L) of the Oi nuclear power station in Fukui Prefecture on July 19, 2012. The reactor reached criticality that morning following its reactivation the night before by its operator, Kansai Electric Power Co. The reactor is the second to go back online, after all of Japan's commercial reactors were taken offline for regular checks in the wake of the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis. The first to resume operation was the Oi plant's No. 3 reactor (R) which was brought to full operation on July 9.

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London in festive mood before Olympics

LONDON, England - A huge set of the five Olympic rings are suspended from Tower Bridge in London on June 19, 2012. Britain is increasingly in a festive mood ahead of the July 27 opening of the London Olympics.

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Japanese astronaut Hoshide may venture outside ISS

HOUSTON, United States - Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide undergoes training for operating robotic arms by computer at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, on March 19, 2012. The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration said March 20 that Hoshide may have the opportunity to venture outside the International Space Station during his four-month stay aboard the ISS beginning in July.

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Japanese astronaut Hoshide may venture outside ISS

HOUSTON, United States - Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide (R) receives a demonstration at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, on March 19, 2012. The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration said March 20 that Hoshide may have the opportunity to venture outside the International Space Station during his four-month stay aboard the ISS beginning in July.

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Japan SDF in S. Sudan

JUBA, South Sudan - Members of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force hold discussions with workers of a quarry company in Sudan on Jan. 19, 2012. An advance team of the GSDF arrived in the capital Juba in mid-January to build roads under a U.N. peacekeeping mission and help improve the infrastructure of the 54th African nation that became independent in July 2011.