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Cleanup continues 52 yrs after partial meltdown in Los Angeles

SIMI VALLEY, United States - Contractors of the Environmental Protection Agency collect soil samples at the former site of Santa Susana Field Laboratory in the suburbs of Los Angeles on June 20, 2011. An experimental nuclear reactor at the lab that was active from the late 1940s to early 1980s experienced a partial meltdown in July 1959. Analysis of the soil will show how much radioactive material remains.

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Japanese traditional arts performed in Iran

TEHRAN, Iran - Japanese Noh actor and human national treasure Tsumura Reijiro (L) performs in a workshop for researchers at the Japanese Embassy in Tehran on July 20, 2011. He took part in a three-day event in the Iranian capital of performances and workshops of Japanese traditional arts.

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Matsui hits 500th career homer

DETROIT, United States - Oakland Athletics designated hitter Hideki Matsui smiles in an interview after hitting the 500th home run of his professional career in a game against the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park in Detroit on July 20, 2011. Matsui went 3-for-4 with three runs in his team's 7-5 win.

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Matsui hits 500th career homer

DETROIT, United States - Oakland Athletics designated hitter Hideki Matsui rounds first after homering during the sixth inning of a game against the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park in Detroit on July 20, 2011. It was Matsui's 500th career homer in Japan and the United States.

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Matsui hits 500th career homer

DETROIT, United States - Oakland Athletics designated hitter Hideki Matsui homers during the sixth inning of a game against the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park in Detroit on July 20, 2011. It was Matsui's 500th career homer in Japan and the United States.

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Kansai governors promote tourism

BEIJING, China - Governors from western Japan meet with Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan (R) in Beijing on July 20, 2011. A group of governors and key personnel from western Japan are visiting China to attract more Chinese tourists to the region.

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Pag-asa Island in South China Sea

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Pag-asa Island, the largest of the Philippine-occupied islands among the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, on July 20, 2011. A group of Philippine lawmakers visited the island the same day amid Chinese opposition. (Pool photo by the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines)

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Matsui hits 500th career homer

DETROIT, United States - Oakland Athletics designated hitter Hideki Matsui homers during the sixth inning of a game against the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park in Detroit on July 20, 2011. It was Matsui's 500th career homer in Japan and the United States.

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Matsui hits 500th career homer

DETROIT, United States - Oakland Athletics designated hitter Hideki Matsui homers during the sixth inning of a game against the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park in Detroit on July 20, 2011. It was Matsui's 500th career homer in Japan and the United States.

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Power saving request extended to western Japan

OSAKA, Japan - Officials of Kansai Electric Power Co., including president Makoto Yagi (2nd from L), hold a press conference at the utility's head office in Osaka on July 20, 2011. The central government on the same day expanded the scope of its request for power-saving efforts to western areas in addition to eastern Japan, in the wake of problems that recently halted operations at a nuclear reactor and a coal-fired power plant.

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Matsui hits 500th career homer

DETROIT, United States - Oakland Athletics designated hitter Hideki Matsui (C) smiles in the dugout after homering during the sixth inning of a game against the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park in Detroit on July 20, 2011. It was Matsui's 500th career homer in Japan and the United States.

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Matsui hits 500th career homer

DETROIT, United States - Oakland Athletics designated hitter Hideki Matsui is congratulated by his teammates after homering during the sixth inning of a game against the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park in Detroit on July 20, 2011. It was Matsui's 500th career homer in Japan and the United States.

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Matsui hits 500th career homer

DETROIT, United States - Oakland Athletics designated hitter Hideki Matsui homers during the sixth inning of a game against the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park in Detroit on July 20, 2011. It was Matsui's 500th career homer in Japan and the United States.

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Team examines Koreans' remains

NAGANO, Japan - Members of a research team examine remains in wooden boxes on July 20, 2011, in Omachi, Nagano Prefecture. The team from the Japanese and South Korean governments is researching the remains of Koreans who were taken to Japan for forced labor during World War II. After the examination, remains of four people, including that of four-year-old who died in 1944, were confirmed in the probe aimed at returning them to their families.

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Somali refugees in grip of despair

NAIROBI, Kenya - Photo taken July 20, 2011, shows Somali women and children taking shelter at the Dadaab refugee complex in northeastern Kenya near the border with Somalia.

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PM Kan meets next IMO chief Sekimizu

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) and Koji Sekimizu, incoming chief of the International Maritime Organization, shake hands at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on July 20, 2011. Sekimizu vowed to tackle piracy in the Indian Ocean during a press conference at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism the same day.

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Pag-asa Island in South China Sea

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Pag-asa Island, the largest of the Philippine-occupied islands among the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, on July 20, 2011. A group of Philippine lawmakers visited the island the same day amid Chinese opposition. (Pool photo by the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines)

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Fund to repair disaster-hit musical instruments

TOKYO, Japan - Musician Ryuichi Sakamoto (2nd from R) takes part in a press conference in Tokyo on July 20, 2011, to mark the launch of a project to help repair musical instruments damaged at schools in northeastern Japan areas hit by the March quake and tsunami.

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Sunflower seeds sowed in Fukushima to lower radiation levels

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - An official of the water works department of Fukushima City shows sunflower seeds at a local plaza on July 20, 2011. About 30 officials sowed some 10,000 seeds at the plaza, one of the so-called ''hot spots'' where radiation levels are higher than other areas. Sunflower seeds are said to absorb radioactive substances.

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Kansai governors promote tourism

BEIJING, China - Hyogo Gov. Toshizo Ido (C), head of the Union of Kansai Governments, speaks at a hotel in Beijing on July 20, 2011, aiming to promote tourism in western Japan. A group of governors and other key personnel from western Japan visited China to attract more Chinese tourists to the region.

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'Nadeshiko Japan' in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Members of the Japanese women's national soccer team -- Saki Kumagai (R), Aya Sameshima (C) and coach Norio Sasaki (L) -- show a World Cup trophy to potential future members of ''Nadeshiko Japan'' at the Tokyo metropolitan government building on July 20, 2011. The Japanese team won the Women's World Cup for the first time in Germany.

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People in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region

HOTAN, China - People look at security near a police station in Hotan, in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, on July 20, 2011. Chinese police shot dead 14 people who were involved in an attack on the police station two days earlier, the local government said July 20.

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Mitsubishi Electric head office

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken July 20, 2011, shows the building housing the head office of Mitsubishi Electric Corp. in Tokyo's Marunouchi district. Seven auto parts makers including Mitsubishi Electric were raided by the Japan Fair Trade Commission the same day over their alleged involvement in a price-fixing cartel.

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Police station in Hotan

HOTAN, China - Photo taken on July 20, 2011, shows a police station which was attacked by rioters two days earlier in Hotan, in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Chinese police shot dead 14 people who attacked the police station, the local government said July 20.

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Japanese synchronized swimming team

SHANGHAI, China - Members of the Japanese synchronized swimming team perform in the free routine preliminaries at the world swimming championships in Shanghai on July 20, 2011.

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ASEAN, China agree on guidelines over S. China Sea

NUSA DUA, Indonesia - Senior officials of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and China meet in Bali, Indonesia, on July 20, 2011. They have reached agreement on guidelines that would govern activities in disputed areas in the South China Sea.

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Ozeki Kaio retires

NAGOYA, Japan - Ozeki Kaio smiles at a press conference announcing his retirement in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, on July 20, 2011. The 38-year-old, who held sumo's second-highest rank, extended his career wins to 1,047, an all-time record, during the ongoing Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament.

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Lower house OKs 2nd extra budget for quake-relief work

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) and his Cabinet members bow after a 2-trillion-yen second extra budget for fiscal 2011 to finance reconstruction and relief works following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami was approved by the House of Representatives in Tokyo on July 20, 2011, before deliberations begin in the opposition-controlled House of Councillors.

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ASEAN, China agree on guidelines over S. China Sea

NUSA DUA, Indonesia - Senior officials of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and China meet in Bali, Indonesia, on July 20, 2011. They have reached agreement on guidelines that would govern activities in disputed areas in the South China Sea. (Pool Photo)

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Typhoon Ma-on moving eastward around Japan

SHIRAHAMA, Japan - High waves from typhoon Ma-on wash on the coast of Kii Peninsula in western Japan on July 20, 2011. Ma-on hit Shikoku and continued moving eastward.

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Sunflower seeds sowed in Fukushima to lower radiation levels

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Officials of the water works department of Fukushima City sow sunflower seeds on July 20, 2011 at a local plaza to lower the radiation level. The plaza is one of the so-called ''hot spots,'' where radiation levels are higher than other areas. Sunflower seeds are said to absorb radioactive substances.

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Hawker family returns to Japan before verdict

NARITA, Japan - The family of British woman Lindsay Hawker, including her father Bill Hawker (L) and mother Julia (R), arrive at Narita International Airport in Chiba Prefecture on July 20, 2011. The verdict is to be handed down the following day at the trial of Tatsuya Ichihashi, who is accused of murdering their daughter in 2007.

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Head office of Denso Corp.

KARIYA, Japan - Photo taken July 20, 2011, shows the head office of Denso Corp. in Kariya, Aichi Prefecture. Seven auto parts makers including Denso were raided by the Japan Fair Trade Commission the same day over their alleged involvement in a price-fixing cartel.

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LDP chief Tanigaki

TOKYO, Japan - Sadakazu Tanigaki, president of the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party, announces the party's proposal to keep Japan's existing nuclear power plants running with enhanced safety during a press conference at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on July 20, 2011.

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Typhoon Ma-on moving eastward around Japan

SHIRAHAMA, Japan - Rough waves lap the seashore on Shirahama Beach in Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, on July 20, 2011. Ma-on hit Shikoku and continued moving eastward.

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Hawker family returns to Japan before verdict

NARITA, Japan - Bill Hawker, the father of slain British woman Lindsay Hawker, shows a photo of his daughter to the media at Narita International Airport in Chiba Prefecture on July 20, 2011. A verdict was expected to be handed down the following day in the trial of Tatsuya Ichihashi, who is accused of murdering the 22-year-old Briton in 2007.

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Kansai launches promotion to attract Chinese tourists

HANEDA AIRPORT, Japan - Governors and other leaders from Kansai, including Hyogo Governor Toshizo Ido (C front), line up for group photos before leaving for Beijing from Haneda airport in Tokyo on July 20, 2011, to attract more Chinese tourists to the western Japan region.

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PM Kan mulls resigning in July

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Naoto Kan is pictured at his office in Tokyo on June 20, 2011, as he heads for a meeting with executives of his ruling Democratic Party of Japan at his official residence. Kan could step down in July in exchange for obtaining opposition cooperation to pass a new extra budget and a bill needed for the government to issue deficit-covering bonds in fiscal 2011, DPJ lawmakers said the same day.

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Glacier Express derailment caused by human error

BERN, Switzerland - Walter Kobelt, the Swiss department of transport's lead investigator, gives an interview in Bern on Jan. 20, 2011. Kobelt's report says Swiss investigators have determined a Glacier Express accident in July 2010 that killed a 64-year-old Japanese woman and injured 42 other passengers was caused by human error.

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Toray, Uniqlo to expand strategic partnership

TOKYO, Japan - Chemical maker Toray Industries Inc. President Akihiro Nikkaku (L) and clothing retail chain Uniqlo Co. President Tadashi Yanai shake hands in Tokyo on July 20, 2010, after the two companies announced they will expand their strategic partnership with an eye toward boosting sales in 2011-2015 to 400 billion yen by promoting global operations.