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MV-22 Osprey

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows an MV-22 Osprey, a vertical takeoff and landing transport aircraft, at the U.S. Marine Corps' Air Station Miramar in San Diego on June 13, 2011.

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Japanese owner reunited with buoy lost in tsunami

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Sakiko Miura smiles in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on June 13, 2012, after putting on an apron presented as a gift from American David Baxter, who also shipped her a fish-farm buoy (front) that was lost in the March 2011 tsunami and later found on an island off Alaska. Miura, 63, is believed to be the first Japanese to receive a washed-up item from Japan's disaster-hit region sent back from overseas.

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Record exists on China's shipment of missile transporters to N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows what appears to be a new ballistic missile and a launch-pad vehicle during a military parade held at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang on April 15, 2012, the centennial of the birth of North Korea's state founder Kim Il Sung. Records from a cargo ship have revealed that China shipped to North Korea around August 2011 vehicles used to transport the new ballistic missile, Japanese government officials said June 13, 2012. China's action could constitute a violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions banning member states from exporting to North Korea any materials or equipment that could contribute to North Korea's ballistic missile program.

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Record exists on China's shipment of missile transporters to N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows what appears to be a new ballistic missile and a launch-pad vehicle during a military parade held at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang on April 15, 2012, the centennial of the birth of North Korea's state founder Kim Il Sung. Records from a cargo ship have revealed that China shipped to North Korea around August 2011 vehicles used to transport the new ballistic missile, Japanese government officials said June 13, 2012. China's action could constitute a violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions banning member states from exporting to North Korea any materials or equipment that could contribute to North Korea's ballistic missile program.

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MV-22 Osprey

OSAKA, Japan - File photo taken June 13, 2011, shows an MV-22 Osprey, a vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, seen at the Marine Corps' Air Station Miramar in San Diego. A senior defense ministry official sought the cooperation of the municipal government of Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on June 11, 2012, for the planned temporary deployment of MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft at a U.S. military base there before eventually deploying them at another U.S. base in Okinawa Prefecture.

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6 months after Japan quake, tsunami

OFUNATO, Japan - Photos taken from a Kyodo News helicopter of the downtown area of Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, (from top) on March 13, June 3 and Sept. 5, 2011, show that debris in the area, hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, has almost been cleared away.

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Tokyo police band marks 1,000th concert

TOKYO, Japan - The metropolitan police musical band holds its 1,000th weekly concert at Hibiya Park in Tokyo on July 13, 2011. The Metropolitan Police Department is considering applying for Guinness World Records as ''the oldest concert performed by a same band at a same place.'' The musical band, founded in 1936, has held free concerts for 62 years at Hibiya Park in Tokyo every Wednesday since June 1949 between spring and autumn seasons.

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China's economy grows 9.5% in April-June qtr

BEIJING, China - Sheng Laiyun, a spokesman for China's National Bureau of Statistics, speaks in a press conference in Beijing on July 13, 2011. China said its economy grew 9.5 percent in the April-June quarter from a year earlier, down from a 9.7 percent expansion in the preceding quarter.

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Filipinos celebrate national hero who briefly visited Japan

MANILA, Philippines - Photo taken June 16, 2011, at the Philippine National Library in Manila, shows a portrait on display there of Seiko Usui, more commonly known to Filipinos as O-Sei-san, the Japanese love interest of the Philippines' national hero Jose Rizal, who visited Japan from Feb. 28 to April 13, 1888. The Philippines celebrated the 150th anniversary of Rizal's birth on June 19, 2011.

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Riot in China's Guangdong

ZENGCHENG, China - A building is seen damaged by rioting in Zengcheng, Guangdong Province in China, on June 13, 2011. Rioting ignited by a clash between security police and street vendors continued three days to June 12 in the city on a Guangzhou suburb.

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MV-22 Osprey

SAN DIEGO, United States - An MV-22 Osprey, a vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, is seen at the Marine Corps' Air Station Miramar in San Diego on June 13, 2011. The U.S. Marines unveiled to the media the same day the aircraft which the U.S. Defense Department is planning to deploy at the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Japan's Okinawa Prefecture.

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Germany's Kauder in press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Volker Kauder, floor leader of Germany's ruling parliamentary group of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany and the Christian Social Union of Bavaria, attends a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on June 13, 2011. During the press conference, Kauder said Germany is ready to step up technological cooperation with Japan to promote the use of renewable energy in the wake of Berlin's decision to close all nuclear power plants by 2022.

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MV-22 Osprey

SAN DIEGO, United States - An MV-22 Osprey, a vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, is seen at the Marine Corps' Air Station Miramar in San Diego on June 13, 2011. The U.S. Marines unveiled to the media the same day the aircraft which the U.S. Defense Department is planning to deploy at the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Japan's Okinawa Prefecture.

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MV-22 Osprey

SAN DIEGO, United States - An MV-22 Osprey, a vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, is seen at the Marine Corps' Air Station Miramar in San Diego on June 13, 2011. The U.S. Marines unveiled to the media the same day the aircraft which the U.S. Defense Department is planning to deploy at the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Japan's Okinawa Prefecture.

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Japan's best bartender

TOKYO, Japan - Manabu Otake, a bartender at a Tokyo hotel, celebrates with his trophy after winning the Diageo World Class 2011 Japan competition in Tokyo on June 13, 2011. Otake will take part in the international World Class bartender competition in New Delhi in July.

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Keene speaks before moving to Japan

NEW YORK, United States - Donald Keene, a prominent Japanese literature scholar, speaks at a farewell event in New York on June 13, 2011. The 88-year-old professor emeritus at Columbia University plans to move permanently to Japan.

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Suu Kyi message at ILO meeting

GENEVA, Switzerland - Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's video message is displayed during the 100th International Labor Conference at the headquarters of the International Labor Organization in Geneva on June 13, 2011. She expressed her hope that the ILO would expand its activities in Myanmar and help usher in an era of social justice, according to the ILO website.

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Protest against Osprey deployment

NAHA, Japan - Ginowan Mayor Takeshi Asato (R) takes part in a sit-in in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on June 13, 2011, to protest the planned deployment of MV-22 Osprey vertical takeoff and landing aircraft to the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in the city.

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Chinese police maintain heavy security in Guangdong

GUANGZHOU, China - Armed police officers stand on a street on the outskirts of Guangzhou, in southern China's Guangdong Province, on June 13, 2011, following three nights of protests and rioting, reportedly involving around 1,000 migrant workers, that began June 10.

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Roses bearing messages of encouragement in petals

OTSUCHI, Japan - A woman looks at roses with messages of encouragement for people in tsunami-hit areas printed on their petals, such as ''Believe in reconstruction,'' at a shelter in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on June 13, 2011. Flower producers and wholesalers in Yamaguchi Prefecture, who have been donating part of their flower-related revenues for the victims of the March 11 disaster in northeastern Japan, delivered the roses to the shelter in Otsuchi, one of the communities hardest hit by the tsunami.

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Tsunami-hit Yuriage in Miyagi Pref.

SENDAI, Japan - Photo shows the Yuriage district in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, on June 13, 2011, about three months after a massive earthquake and tsunami destroyed the area.

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New Gundam series unveiled

TOKYO, Japan - Executives of Bandai Namco Holdings Inc. and animation creators line up during a promotional event in Tokyo to unveil the story and characters of Mobile Suit Gundam ''AGE,'' the first new series of the popular Japanese sci-fi animation since 2007, on June 13, 2011. The 14th animation series, to be broadcast on TV in Japan from October, features a three-generation family story centering on a technology-savvy boy who develops the AGE combat robot system that can evolve itself through battles, the company said.

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Japan to proceed with Futenma relocation

NAHA, Japan - Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima (front R) meets Japanese Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa (2nd from L) at the Okinawa prefectural hall in Naha on June 13, 2011. Kitazawa formally conveyed to Nakaima that Japan and the United States intend to go ahead with their plan to move the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station within Okinawa Prefecture.

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Kenyan medalist in disaster area

YAMADA, Japan - Sydney Olympics marathon silver medalist Eric Wainaina of Kenya runs with about 150 pupils on a mountainous path near a facility used for temporary classes of tsunami-hit Funakoshi Elementary School in Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, on June 13, 2011.

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Black-rind watermelon sold for 250,000 yen

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - Auctioneers examine a black-rind watermelon that was priced at 250,000 yen for the year's first auction at a fresh produce market in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, on June 13, 2011. The year's first auctions for the fancy fruit from the Hokkaido town of Toma were held in Asahikawa and Sapporo, with a melon fetching 300,000 yen in Sapporo, the highest price that day.

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Disaster-hit Minamisanriku in March and June

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Combined photo shows an area in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture on March 13, 2011 (top frame), two days after the March 11 tsunami with firefighters searching for people missing following the disaster, and the same area on June 6, 2011 (bottom frame).

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Disaster-hit Ofunato in March and June

OFUNATO, Japan - Combined photo shows an area destroyed by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, on March 13, 2011 (top frame), two days after the disaster, and the same area on June 6, 2011 (bottom frame). Damaged houses and debris have been cleared away nearly three months after the disaster.

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Disaster-hit Kesennuma in March and June

KESENNUMA, Japan - Combined photo shows an area devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 13, 2011 (top frame), two days after the disaster, and the same area on June 3, 2011 (bottom frame). Flowers have come into bloom since the area was cleaned up.

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Disaster-hit Otsuchi in March and June

OTSUCHI, Japan - Combination photo shows the parking lot of a local shopping center in the town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on March 13, 2011 (top), two days after the massive earthquake and tsunami struck the area, and the same spot on June 3, 2011 (bottom). The debris has been cleared away and the shopping center aims to resume its business soon.

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Astronaut Furukawa training in Moscow

MOSCOW, Russia - Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa takes part in training at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Center in a suburb of Moscow on April 13, 2011. Furukawa, who is scheduled to stay at the International Space Station from June, said at a press conference on the same day that he would like to directly communicate with people affected by the March 11 quake and tsunami disaster in Japan from space.

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Astronaut Furukawa in Moscow

MOSCOW, Russia - Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa attends a press conference at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Center in a suburb of Moscow on April 13, 2011. Furukawa, who is scheduled to stay at the International Space Station from June, said he would like to directly communicate with people affected by the March 11 quake and tsunami disaster in Japan from space.