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Japanese-style 'koban' police box in northeastern Thailand

BANGKOK, Thailand - Three Thai policemen work at a "koban" small police station modeled after Japan's system in the northeastern province of Surin in this file photo taken on July 28, 2014.

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Canal for intake in China's national water supply project

BEIJING, China - A canal intended to take water from the Danjiangkou Reservoir in the eastern Chinese province of Hubei for supply to Beijing through the central route of the national "South-to-North Water Diversion Project" is photographed in Nanyang, Henan Province, on July 28, 2014.

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Water intake canal of China's central supply route

BEIJING, China - A water intake canal for the central route of the national "South-to-North Water Diversion Project" is photographed in Nanyang, Henan Province, on July 28, 2014. The route from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River to Beijing will open as early as late October amid concern over water contamination due to the presence of mines near the water source area.

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Police probe guide dog stabbing in Saitama

SAITAMA, Japan - A guide dog, Oscar, waits to assist his 61-year-old blind owner on Aug. 28, 2014, in the city of Saitama, near Tokyo. Oscar was stabbed in July during his owner's commute to work, prompting police to launch an investigation.

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Traditional Tokyo public bathhouse welcomes foreign visitors

TOKYO, Japan - A multilingual ticket machine at Jakotsuyu, a "sento" public bathhouse in Tokyo's Asakusa, is seen on July 28, 2014. The buttons are displayed in English, Chinese and Korean, in addition to Japanese, for the convenience of foreign tourists.

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Thai local village promotes handcrafted silken fabrics

THA SAWANG, Thailand - A woman hangs dyed cotton yarns to dry in Tha Sawang, Surin Province, northeastern Thailand, as part of efforts to further promote the village's traditional handcrafted silken fabrics business on July 28, 2014.

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Thai Women weave silken fabrics using loom

THA SAWANG, Thailand - Women weave silken fabrics on a loom in the village of Tha Sawang in Surin Province, northeastern Thailand, on July 28, 2014.

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Thai designer shows traditional silken fabrics

THA SAWANG, Thailand - A Bangkok-based technical designer, who emphasizes the importance of handcrafted silken fabrics, holds a piece of work in the village of Tha Sawang in Surin Province, northeastern Thailand, on July 28, 2014.

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Yamaguchi shows place where Abebe ran on Oct. 22, 1964

TOKYO, Japan -Masuo Yamaguchi, a sports photographer who took part in the filming of "Tokyo Olympiad," a documentary on the 1964 Tokyo Olympics directed by Kon Ichikawa, on July 28, 2014, stands outside the National Stadium, pointing at where marathon gold medalist Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia ran for the film the day after winning the race.

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Child wrestler grimaces as belt found too short for belly

BEIJING, China - A child wrestler grimaces as a belt is found too short for his belly on the first day of Mongolia's three-day traditional Naadam sports festival in Xilinhot in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on July 28, 2014.

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Kitten named 'apprentice attendant' at rail station

AIZUWAKAMATSU, Japan - Michiko Kobayashi, manager of Aizu Railway Co.'s Ashinomaki Onsen Station in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, holds a kitten appointed as an "apprentice attendant" on July 28, 2014. She hopes the kitten will succeed an aging "cat stationmaster" in the near future.

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Kitten named 'apprentice attendant' at rail station

AIZUWAKAMATSU, Japan - A kitten named an "apprentice attendant" at Aizu Railway Co.'s Ashinomaki Onsen Station in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, sits on a bench on July 28, 2014.

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1st production model of HondaJet at air show

OSHKOSH, United States - The first production model of Honda Aircraft Co.'s HondaJet takes part in an air show in Oshkosh, the United States, on July 28, 2014. The roughly 13-meter-long plane is powered by two engines installed above the main wings.

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1st production model of HondaJet at air show

OSHKOSH, United States - Photo taken July 28, 2014, shows the first production model of Honda Aircraft Co.'s HondaJet, unveiled at an air show in Oshkosh, the United States. The roughly 13-meter-long plane is powered by two engines installed above the main wings.

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Darvish gets 10th win as Rangers beat Yankees

ARLINGTON, United States - Texas Rangers right-hander Yu Darvish pitches against New York Yankees on July 28, 2014, at Globe Life Park in Arlington, the United States, to lead his team to a 4-2 win. Darvish marked double-digit victories for the third consecutive year since his rookie season.

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6 pref. governors seek business ties with U.S. startups

SAN FRANCISCO, United States - Six Japanese prefectural governors - (from L) Hidehiko Yuzaki of Hiroshima, Ryuta Ibaragi of Okayama, Yasushi Furukawa of Saga, Hiroshi Ogawa of Fukuoka, Katsusada Hirose of Oita (3rd from R) and Heita Kawakatsu of Shizuoka (far R) - pose for photos with officials of the U.S.-Japan Council, organizer of a conference at Stanford University in California to discuss ways to develop business ties with companies based in Silicon Valley, on July 28, 2014.

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6 pref. governors attend confab in CA for business ties

SAN FRANCISCO, United States - Six Japanese prefectural governors -- (from R) Hidehiko Yuzaki of Hiroshima, Hiroshi Ogawa of Fukuoka, Heita Kawakatsu of Shizuoka, Ryuta Ibaragi of Okayama, Katsusada Hirose of Oita and Yasushi Furukawa of Saga, attend a conference at Stanford University in California to explore ways to develop business ties with companies based in Silicon Valley on July 28, 2014.

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Darvish gets 10th win as Rangers beat Yankees

ARLINGTON, United States - Texas Rangers right-hander Yu Darvish pitches against New York Yankees on July 28, 2014, at Globe Life Park in Arlington, the United States, to lead his team to a 4-2 win. Darvish marked double-digit victories for the third consecutive year since his rookie season.

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Darvish gets 10th win as Rangers beat Yankees

ARLINGTON, United States - Texas Rangers right-hander Yu Darvish pitches against New York Yankees on July 28, 2014, at Globe Life Park in Arlington, the United States, to lead his team to a 4-2 win. Darvish marked double-digit victories for the third consecutive year since his rookie season.

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Honda Aircraft President Fujino stands by aircraft

OSHKOSH, United States - President Michimasa Fujino of Honda Aircraft Co. stands by the first production model of the HondaJet on July 28, 2014, in Oshkosh, the United States. With delivery expected to start in 2015, the aircraft builder is hoping to tap demand for the light jet from corporate executives, high net-worth individuals and for air taxi services in North America.

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Miyagi gov't, Japan Asia Group ink solar power plant deal

SENDAI, Japan - Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai (L) and Tetsuo Yamashita, chairman of Japan Asia Group Ltd., sign an agreement in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on July 28, 2014, to build a mega-solar power plant on a lot vacated by a tsunami-ddamaged high school in Natori in the northeastern Japan prefecture.

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Toranomon Hills mascot 'Toranomon'

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken July 28, 2014, in Tokyo's Minato Ward shows mugs, postcards and other products featuring "Toranomon," the official mascot of Toranomon Hills, Tokyo's second-tallest building complex that opened the previous month. Mori Building Co., which manages the complex, began selling the products the same day.

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HondaJet debuts at U.S. air show

OSHKOSH, United States - Honda Motor Co. takes the wraps off the mass production version of the HondaJet small plane at the weeklong EAA AirVentue fly-in convention in Oshkosh in the U.S. state of Wisconsin on July 28, 2014.

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Kanazawa Station's Shinkansen platforms opened to press

KANAZAWA, Japan - West Japan Railway Co. shows the press platforms at Kanazawa Station for the Hokuriku Shinkansen bullet train line on July 28, 2014, ahead of the new line's inauguration next spring. Platform screen doors are painted in five colors used for the local "Kaga Yuzen" silk kimono dyeing.

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16-yr-old girl arrested for murder says she wanted to kill someone

SASEBO, Japan - Police officers on July 28, 2014, carry a large item that looks like a mattress from the apartment building where a 16-year-old girl allegedly murdered a high-school classmate two days earlier in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture. The suspect, whose name is being withheld because she is a minor under age 20, said she "wanted to kill someone" and suggested she also wanted to dismember a body, investigative sources said the same day. The victim's head and left hand were severed.

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Japan announces additional sanctions on Russia

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga tells a daily press briefing at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on July 28, 2014, that Japan will impose additional sanctions on Russia for failing to defuse the crisis in Ukraine. Assets held in Japan by individuals or groups directly involved in Russia's annexation of Crimea or the instability in eastern Ukraine will be frozen.

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Toranomon Hills mascot 'Toranomon'

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken July 28, 2014, in Tokyo's Minato Ward shows "Toranomon" (L), the official mascot of Toranomon Hills, Tokyo's second-tallest building complex that opened the previous month, and Doraemon, the robot character on which Toranomon is based.

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16-yr-old girl arrested for murder says she wanted to kill someone

SASEBO, Japan - Police officers on July 28, 2014, carry a large item that looks like a mattress from the apartment building where a 16-year-old girl allegedly murdered a high-school classmate two days earlier in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture. The suspect, whose name is being withheld because she is a minor under age 20, said she "wanted to kill someone" and suggested she also wanted to dismember a body, investigative sources said the same day. The victim's head and left hand were severed.

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Astronaut Wakata pays courtesy call on science minister

TOKYO, Japan - Astronaut Koichi Wakata (L), the first Japanese captain of the International Space Station, presents Hakubun Shimomura, minister of education, culture, sports, science and technology, with a commemorative panel at the minister's office in Tokyo on July 28, 2014. Wakata completed a six-month mission at the station in May 2014.

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U.S. parent firm of scandal-tainted Chinese meat supplier

SHANGHAI, China - Sheldon Lavin (R), chief executive officer of OSI Group LLC of the United States, attends a press conference in Shanghai on July 28, 2014, after OSI's Shanghai unit, Shanghai Husi, was found to have sold spoiled meat products to major fast-food chains in Japan, Hong Kong and elsewhere. The parent company said it will conduct product quality checks on all of its meat processing subsidiaries in China.

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Final countdown for eel restaurants before day of ox

TOKYO, Japan - A vendor shows a lunch box with grilled eel pieces over steamed rice at Mitsukoshi Department Store in Tokyo on July 28, 2014, ahead of the Midsummer Day of the Ox when people traditionally eat roasted eels.

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U.S. parent firm of scandal-tainted Chinese meat supplier

SHANGHAI, China - Sheldon Lavin (C), chief executive officer, and other senior officials of OSI Group LLC of the United States hold a press conference in Shanghai on July 28, 2014, after OSI's Shanghai unit, Shanghai Husi, was found to have sold spoiled meat products to major fast-food chains in Japan, Hong Kong and elsewhere. The parent company said it will conduct product quality checks on all of its meat processing subsidiaries in China.

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Artifact display at Kanazawa Station unveiled

KANAZAWA, Japan - Traditional handicrafts of Ishikawa Prefecture such as Kaga Yuzen kimono are displayed at Kanazawa Station in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, on July 28, 2014. The display is designed to welcome tourists as the Hokuriku Shinkansen bullet train line is scheduled to start operation between Tokyo and Kanazawa in spring 2015.

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U.S. parent firm of scandal-tainted Chinese meat supplier

SHANGHAI, China - Sheldon Lavin, chief executive officer of OSI Group LLC of the United States, attends a press conference in Shanghai on July 28, 2014, after OSI's Shanghai unit, Shanghai Husi, was found to have sold spoiled meat products to major fast-food chains in Japan, Hong Kong and elsewhere. The parent company said it will conduct product quality checks on all of its meat processing subsidiaries in China.

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Mythological Shinto god dance performed in western Japan

YONAGO, Japan - A shrine priest performs a sword dance at a festival on the 1,143-meter Mt. Sentsu straddling Tottori and Shimane prefectures, western Japan, on July 28, 2014, symbolizing a mythological fight between an eight-headed monster serpent and Shinto god Susanoo-no-Mikoto.

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Fukushima products promoted in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Shoppers line up to buy peaches at a promotional event for products from Fukushima Prefecture organized by the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Tokyo on July 28, 2014. The event was aimed at challenging the negative reputation of food from Fukushima Prefecture caused by the 2011 nuclear disaster.

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16-yr-old girl arrested for murder says she wanted to kill someone

SASEBO, Japan - A car carrying a 16-year-old girl under arrest for allegedly murdering a high-school classmate, leaves the Sasebo Police Station for the local prosecutors' office in Nagasaki Prefecture on July 28, 2014. The suspect, whose name is being withheld because she is a minor under age 20, said she "wanted to kill someone" and suggested she also wanted to dismember a body, investigative sources said the same day. The victim's head and left hand were severed.

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16-yr-old girl arrested for murder says she wanted to kill someone

SASEBO, Japan - A sheet shields on July 28, 2014, the balcony of the apartment in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture where two days earlier a 16-year-old girl allegedly murdered a high-school classmate and mutilated the body. The suspect, whose name is being withheld because she is a minor under age 20, said she "wanted to kill someone" and suggested she also wanted to dismember a body, investigative sources said the same day.

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Defense Minister Onodera interviewed about Osprey

TOKYO, Japan - Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera (C) responds to reporters in Ogasawara village, Chichijima island, south of Tokyo, on July 28, 2014, upon arrival aboard an MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft. The Osprey is to be used to transport emergency patients if it is commissioned for the Japan Self-Defense Forces. (Pool photo)

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Banknote reader for visually impaired introduced

OSAKA, Japan - Glory Ltd. introduces a banknote-checking machine for people with visual impairments in Osaka, western Japan, on July 28, 2014, ahead of its launch set for Oct. 1.

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Eyewear maker Oakley opens flagship store in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - Former professional baseball player Tomoaki Kanemoto (R) and snowboarder Yuki Kadono (far L) join an opening ceremony in Osaka, western Japan, on July 28, 2014, for a flagship store of Oakley Japan K.K., a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. sports eyewear giant Oakley Inc.

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Japan teenage girls' soccer team celebrates championship

TOKYO, Japan - Members of Little Nadeshiko, champions of the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup held in Costa Rica earlier this year, pose at a celebration party in Tokyo on July 28, 2014.

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Investigations on high school girl continue

SASEBO, Japan - Investigators leave the apartment on July 28, 2014, in Sasebo in Japan's southwestern prefecture of Nagasaki, where the body of a high school girl was found the previous day. A judicial autopsy has found the 15-year-old high school girl, allegedly killed by her classmate, was strangled to death.

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Defense Minister Onodera arrives on remote isle by Osprey

TOKYO, Japan - Residents of Chichijima island welcome Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera (4th from R) in the village of Ogasawara on the tiny island south of Tokyo on July 28, 2014, upon arrival aboard an MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft. The Osprey is to be used to transport emergency patients if it is commissioned for the Japan Self-Defense Forces. (Pool photo)

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Suga meets with Canadian FM Baird

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga (R) discusses the situation in Ukraine with Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird (L) in Tokyo, Japan, on July 28, 2014.

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Inside view of Oakley Japan's flagship store in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - Shoppers visit the first flagship store of Oakley Japan K.K., a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. sports eyewear giant Oakley Inc., in Osaka on July 28, 2014.

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Photo exhibit on abductee to N. Korea starts in Kawasaki

KAWASAKI, Japan - Some 40 photos of Megumi Yokota, who has become a symbol of Japanese nationals abducted in the past by North Korea, are shown at an exhibition on July 28, 2014, in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, where her aging parents Shigeru and Sakie Yokota live.

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Japan's FM Kishida meets with Canadian FM Baird

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (R) shakes hand with Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird, at his ministry's facility in Tokyo, Japan, on July 28, 2014. Baird told Kishida that countries involved in territorial disputes in the South China Sea should not take actions that will raise tensions in the region.

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Suga meets with Canadian FM Baird

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga (R) shakes hands with Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird before their meeting in Tokyo, Japan, on July 28, 2014. Their discussion centered on the situation in Ukraine.

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Japan begins to dismantle U.S. base ahead of relocation

FUKUOKA, Japan - Camp Schwab, a U.S. military base in the Henoko area of Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, is seen in this file photo taken on June 28, 2014, ahead of the July 1 launch of work to dismantle base facilities to make way for relocation of the Futenma air station in the south.