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N. Korea fires short-range ballistic missiles

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in July 2013 shows a Scud short-range ballistic missile in a military parade at Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square. North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles toward the Sea of Japan early on July 9, 2014, and the projectiles, which appear to be versions of the Scud missile, flew about 500 kilometers, according to South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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N. Korea purges leader's uncle

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken on July 25, 2013, shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (far L) and Jang Song Thaek (2nd from L), Kim's uncle and a vice chairman of the National Defense Commission, walking in a cemetery in Pyongyang for soldiers who died during the Korean War. North Korea said Dec. 9, 2013, that Jang, widely seen as the second most powerful figure in the country after Kim, has been stripped of all his posts for committing "anti-party" and "counter-revolutionary factional acts."

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Internships becoming more oriented toward problem-solving

TOKYO, Japan - Students at Senshu University make a presentation of university dormitory construction plans under an internship program in collaboration with a dormitory operator on July 9, 2013 in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture.

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Turtle breeder sees zoos' greater role to protect wild animals

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Photo taken July 9, 2013, at Nogeyama Zoo in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, shows an angonoka tortoise, a critically endangered species endemic to Madagascar, which zookeeper Daisuke Kiryu is trying to breed at the zoo.

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Turtle breeder sees zoos' greater role to protect wild animals

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Daisuke Kiryu, a zookeeper at Nogeyama Zoo, shows a chart of temperature changes designed to keep seasonal conditions inside the boxes similar to those of original habitats for resident creatures, on July 9, 2013, at the zoo in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture.

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Poet from Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Kozaburo Nagatsu, a poet from Hiroshima Prefecture, is interviewed by Kyodo News on July 9, 2013 in Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture. Nagatsu has been writing poems for years as he wants people to know the sorrow of tens of thousands of people who died instantly in the 1945 atomic bombing on Hiroshima.

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German Pirate Party

BERLIN, Germany - Katharina Nocun, a senior official of the German Pirate Party, answers a reporter's question in Berlin on July 9, 2013.

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Nissan, Honda in U.S.

NEW YORK, United States - Photo shows outlets of (from L) Nissan Motor Co., Honda Motor Co. and Ford Motor Co. in the suburbs of New York on July 9, 2013.

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Comics magazine theme park

TOKYO, Japan - Namco Ltd. unveils J-World Tokyo, an indoor theme park featuring the comics magazine Weekly Shonen Jump, in Tokyo's Ikebukuro area on July 9, 2013. The facility with attractions based on comic series including One Piece and Dragon Ball will open on July 11, 2013.

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Japan seeks Mongolia's cooperation

ULAN BATOR, Mongolia - Japan's minister in charge of the abduction issue Kei Furuya (L) meets with Mongolian President Tsakhia Elbegdorj (R) in Ulan Bator on July 9, 2013. Furuya said he called for Mongolian cooperation to help resolve Japan's standoff with North Korea over its past abduction of Japanese nationals.

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Asiana president

SEOUL, South Korea - Yoon Yong Doo, president and CEO of Asiana Airlines, speaks with reporters at Incheon International Airport near Seoul on July 9, 2013, prior to his departure for San Francisco, where one of the carrier's jets crashed while landing at San Francisco airport three days earlier. Yoon said he will meet with officials investigating the cause of the crash landing and visit passengers of the flight who have been hospitalized to offer them an apology. (Pool photo)

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Japan seeks Mongolia's cooperation

ULAN BATOR, Mongolia - Japan's minister in charge of the abduction issue Kei Furuya speaks with reporters after holding talks with Mongolian President Tsakhia Elbegdorj in Ulan Bator on July 9, 2013. Furuya said he called for Mongolian cooperation to help resolve Japan's standoff with North Korea over its past abduction of Japanese nationals.

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Heat wave in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Children play with water at the foot of Tokyo Skytree in Tokyo's Sumida Ward amid high temperatures on July 9, 2013. The severe heat wave continued in many parts of Japan, with the temperature topping 39 C for the first time this summer in the central Japan city of Koshu the same day.

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Asiana president

SEOUL, South Korea - Yoon Yong Doo (R), president and CEO of Asiana Airlines, is seen at Incheon International Airport near Seoul on July 9, 2013, prior to his departure for San Francisco, where one of the carrier's jets crashed while landing at San Francisco airport three days earlier. Yoon said he will meet with officials investigating the cause of the crash landing and visit passengers of the flight who have been hospitalized to offer them an apology. (Pool photo)

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Ex-Fukushima Daiichi plant chief Yoshida dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in November 2011 shows Masao Yoshida, head of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex, giving a speech as the crippled plant is shown to journalists for the first time since the start of the nuclear crisis in March 2011. Yoshida died of esophageal cancer at a Tokyo hospital on July 9, 2013, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said. He was 58. After the Fukushima complex was hit by tsunami waves following a huge earthquake, Yoshida took command of the situation in an isolated building on the plant's premises.

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Ex-Fukushima Daiichi plant chief Yoshida dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in November 2011 shows Masao Yoshida, head of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex, as the crippled plant is shown to journalists for the first time since the start of the nuclear crisis in March 2011. Yoshida died of esophageal cancer at a Tokyo hospital on July 9, 2013, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said. He was 58. After the Fukushima complex was hit by tsunami waves following a huge earthquake, Yoshida took command of the situation in an isolated building on the plant's premises.

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China rejects Japan's criticism

BEIJING, China - Hua Chunying, spokeswoman of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, holds a press conference at the ministry in Beijing on July 9, 2013. Hua rejected the assertion in a Japanese defense white paper that China is engaged in "dangerous" maritime activities, saying Chinese maritime operations are based on international and domestic laws.

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Groundwater contamination at Fukushima plant

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter over the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, shows the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station on July 9, 2013. Tokyo Electric Power Co., the operator of the crippled plant, said the same day that the density of radioactive cesium in groundwater by the sea at the plant has soared to around 90 times higher than three days ago.

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Nagatomo leaves for Italy

NARITA, Japan - Yuto Nagatomo of Inter Milan speaks with the media at Narita airport near Tokyo on July 9, 2013, before leaving for Italy.

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S. Korea lodges protest with Japan

SEOUL, South Korea - Takashi Kurai, deputy chief of mission at the Japanese Embassy in South Korea, arrives at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul on July 9, 2013. The ministry called in Kurai to deliver a protest against Japan for describing South Korea-controlled islets in the Sea of Japan, known as Dokdo in Korean and Takeshima in Japanese, as Japanese territory in the Defense White Paper for 2013 released earlier in the day.

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S. Korea lodges protest with Japan

SEOUL, South Korea - Takashi Kurai (C), deputy chief of mission at the Japanese Embassy in South Korea, leaves the Foreign Ministry in Seoul on July 9, 2013. The ministry called in Kurai to deliver a protest against Japan for describing South Korea-controlled islets in the Sea of Japan, known as Dokdo in Korean and Takeshima in Japanese, as Japanese territory in the Defense White Paper for 2013 released earlier in the day.

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Lantern plant market

TOKYO, Japan - Women visit a market selling Physalis alkekengi, also called Chinese lantern plant, at Sensoji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district on July 9, 2013.

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Lantern plant market

TOKYO, Japan - A market selling Physalis alkekengi, also called Chinese lantern plant, begins at Sensoji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district on July 9, 2013.

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New shinkansen train

RIFU, Japan - The E6 series Komachi train is shown to reporters in Rifu, Miyagi Prefecture, on July 9, 2010. The new series of bullet train will run on the Akita Shinkansen Line from 2013.

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New shinkansen train

RIFU, Japan - The cockpit of the E6 series Komachi train is shown to reporters in Rifu, Miyagi Prefecture, on July 9, 2010. The new series of bullet train will run on the Akita Shinkansen Line from 2013.

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New shinkansen train

RIFU, Japan - The E6 series Komachi train is shown to reporters in Rifu, Miyagi Prefecture, on July 9, 2010. The new series of bullet train will run on the Akita Shinkansen Line from 2013.