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Residents of quake-hit town hold tour

TOMIOKA, Japan - Tour participants visiting on July 21, 2014, Tomioka, a Fukushima prefectural town in northeastern Japan that was stricken by a devastating earthquake and tsunami in 2011, look at a police car that was driven by a police officer who was swept away by the tsunami and died while getting residents to evacuate. Yoshiyuki Endo (3rd from R), a town resident who has evacuated to Iwaki, gives a briefing to the participants.

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London Games send-off ceremony

TOKYO, Japan - Women's wrestling champion Saori Yoshida (L), Japan Olympic delegation Hinomaru flag-bearer, attaches a good-luck charm to her jacket during a send-off ceremony for the national team to the London Olympics, at Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo on July 21, 2012. To the right is javelin thrower Yukifumi Murakami (R), Japan Olympic team captain. They received good-luck charms made of debris from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, and made by children in disaster-stricken areas.

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Fukushima Daiichi workers

TOKYO, Japan - File photo in November 2011 shows workers wrapping up the day's work at the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of Tokyo Electric Power Co. in Fukushima Prefecture. They carry alarm pocket dosimeters, or radiation monitoring meters, around the left chest inside their protective suits. Sources said on July 21, 2012, that an executive from a TEPCO subcontractor tried to force its workers at the plant to cover their APDs with plates made of lead in an apparent attempt to underreport radiation exposure.

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Japan's K-pop fans turn to promising new faces

TOKYO, Japan - Excited Japanese women shake hands with members of Apeace, a recently formed pop group consisting of 21 young South Korean men, after seeing them dance and sing at K Theater Tokyo in the Japanese capital's Ebisu district on July 21, 2011.

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Antinuclear actor Yamamoto

SAGA, Japan - File photo shows actor Taro Yamamoto. Prosecutors said on Sept. 21, 2011, they have accepted a criminal complaint against Yamamoto on suspicion of trespassing at a local government building in Saga, southwestern Japan, when he entered the facility in July to file an antinuclear power protest with some other 150 people.

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Stray kittens from disaster-hit Sendai

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows stray kittens from disaster-hit Sendai, northern Japan, being kept in Tokyo. The first group of such kittens arrived in Tokyo on July 21, 2011, and Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward and volunteers looked for new owners for them.

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Vladivostok has fewer swimmers

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Photo shows a beach near Vladivostok in the Russian Far East on July 21, 2011. Local travel agencies said beaches in the area have seen fewer swimmers in July than previous summers due to fears of radioactive contamination from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. Russian authorities have said no radiation contamination has been detected.

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Junior high students from Nagano awarded in global video contest

LOS ANGELES, United States - Female students from Nagawa Junior High School in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, central Japan, line up for group photos in Hollywood on July 21, 2011, after winning the best documentary award -- for their five-minute film about the construction of a dam -- at the Kid Witness News, a global video contest for children around the world, run by Panasonic Corp. of Japan.

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IAEA chief to visit Fukushima nuclear plant

VIENNA, Austria - Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, speaks to reporters at the IAEA headquarters in Vienna on July 21, 2011. Amano, a Japanese, said he plans to visit the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan for the first time on July 25.

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Todaiji temple to open museum

NARA, Japan - Kosei Morimoto (R), a priest at Todaiji temple in Nara, western Japan, holds a poster about a new museum on July 21, 2011. The temple, part of the World Heritage site in Nara, will open the museum on its premises on Oct. 10 to exhibit its Buddhist sculptures and other artworks.

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'Patience' written on industry minister Kaieda's palm

TOKYO, Japan - Banri Kaieda (L), minister of economy, trade and industry, raises his left hand to speak during a House of Councillors Budget Committee session in the Diet building in Tokyo on July 21, 2011. The Chinese character ''nin,'' meaning patience, is written on his left palm.

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Sawa practices before hundreds of people

OSAKA, Japan - Homare Sawa (L), captain of Japan's women's national soccer team, leaves the training ground in Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, on July 21, 2011, as hundreds of photographers and fans look on, after taking part in her first practice session for her INAC team since returning to Japan from Germany, where the national squad won the Women's World Cup.

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Court rejects suit against enshrinement of Koreans at Yasukuni

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean plaintiffs hold a press conference in Tokyo on July 21, 2011, after losing a suit earlier in the day at the Tokyo District Court, in which they called for the removal of their deceased relatives' names from a list of those enshrined collectively at the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo.

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Toyota demonstrates collision prevention system

NAGOYA, Japan - A vehicle, equipped with a collision prevention system consisting of radar and camera detectors, automatically slows after recognizing a mock pedestrian and comes to a stop at Toyota Motor Corp.'s Higashi Fuji Technical Center in Susono, Shizuoka Prefecture, on July 21, 2011. Toyota demonstrated the system, still under development for future use, to reporters.

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Citizen judges in Ichihashi trial

CHIBA, Japan - Citizen judges hold a press conference at the Chiba District Court in Chiba, east of Tokyo, on July 21, 2011, after the court sentenced Tatsuya Ichihashi to life imprisonment earlier in the day for raping and murdering British woman Lindsay Hawker in 2007. Professional and citizen judges took part in the trial. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Gov't designates new 'hot spots' near Fukushima plant

MINAMISOMA, Japan - A radiation counter (L bottom) shows 4.30 microsieverts per hour of radiation in Takanokura in the city of Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, on July 21, 2011. The government the same day newly designated 59 households in Takanokura and three other areas in Minamisoma, near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, as located in ''hot spots'' recommended for evacuation.

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Kitajima practices in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, China - Two-time double Olympic breaststroke champion Kosuke Kitajima of Japan practices in the main competition pool of the world swimming championships at Oriental Sports Center in Shanghai on July 21, 2011.

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Kitajima practices in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, China - Two-time double Olympic breaststroke champion Kosuke Kitajima of Japan is pictured after finishing his practice in the main competition pool of the world swimming championships at Oriental Sports Center in Shanghai on July 21, 2011.

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China-ASEAN foreign ministerial meeting

NUSA DUA, Indonesia - The foreign ministers of China and member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations hold a meeting in Indonesia's Bali on July 21, 2011. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Ishikawa at Sega Sammy Cup

CHITOSE, Japan - Ryo Ishikawa is pictured during the first round of the Shigeo Nagashima Invitational Sega Sammy Cup at Hokkaido's North Country Golf Club on July 21, 2011.

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ANA, AirAsia to set up joint budget airline

TOKYO, Japan - Shinichiro Ito, president of All Nippon Airways Co., speaks at a press conference in a Tokyo hotel on July 21, 2011, announcing that the Japanese airline and AirAsia Bhd. of Malaysia will establish AirAsia Japan Co., a joint budget airline that will begin domestic and international flights from Narita airport near Tokyo by August 2012.

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Vietnam's parliament convenes

HANOI, Vietnam - Vietnam's parliament in Hanoi convenes on July 21, 2011. The session will last until Aug. 6.

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Gov't designates new 'hot spots' near Fukushima plant

MINAMISOMA, Japan - A woman is pictured in the garden of her home in Takanokura in the city of Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, on July 21, 2011. The government the same day newly designated 59 households in Takanokura and three other areas in Minamisoma, near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, as located in ''hot spots'' recommended for evacuation. The woman told Kyodo News she was at a loss as to whether she should evacuate because she has been living there for decades.

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Defense lawyers for Tatsuya Ichihashi

CHIBA, Japan - Lawyers defending Tatsuya Ichihashi enter the Chiba District Court in Chiba, east of Tokyo, on July 21, 2011. The court sentenced Ichihashi to life imprisonment later in the day for raping and murdering British woman Lindsay Hawker in 2007.

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ASEAN-plus-3 foreign ministers begin talks

NUSA DUA, Indonesia - Japanese Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto (C) attends a meeting of foreign ministers of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations plus Japan, China and South Korea on the island of Bali, Indonesia on July 21, 2011.

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Father of slain British woman Lindsay Hawker

CHIBA, Japan - Bill Hawker (back), the father of slain British woman Lindsay Hawker, is pictured July 21, 2011, while heading for the Chiba District Court in Chiba, east of Tokyo. The court sentenced Tatsuya Ichihashi to life imprisonment later in the day for raping and murdering Hawker in 2007.

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ASEAN, Japan foreign ministers meet

NUSA DUA, Indonesia - Japanese Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto (C) attends a meeting of foreign ministers of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations plus Japan on the island of Bali, Indonesia on July 21, 2011.

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'Third Stage' troupe to be disbanded

TOKYO, Japan - Leader of the ''Third Stage'' troupe Shoji Kokami speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on July 21, 2011. He said the troupe would be disbanded after its last performance in January 2012.

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ASEAN-plus-3 foreign ministers begin talks

NUSA DUA, Indonesia - Foreign ministers of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations plus Japan, China and South Korea line up at the venue of the ASEAN Plus Three Foreign Ministers Meeting on the island of Bali, Indonesia on July 21, 2011.

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Anpanman's statue stands at museum

KOCHI, Japan - Children pass a statue of Japanese cartoon and animation hero ''Anpanman'' at Anpanman Museum in Kami, Kochi Prefecture, on July 21, 2011. The statue was opened to the public the same day commemorating the 15th anniversary of the opening of the museum in the hometown of Anpanman's creator Takashi Yanase.

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Former Candies member Tanaka dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows 1970s female pop trio the Candies talking about the breakup of the group during a press conference in Tokyo in July 1977. The trio comprised Ran Ito (C), called Ran, Miki Fujimura (L), called Miki, and Yoshiko Tanaka (R), called Sue. Tanaka died April 21, 2011, of breast cancer at the age of 55.