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More Japanese firms relocating functions to Singapore

SINGAPORE, Singapore - Shunsuke Sato, the chief executive officer of Satisfaction Guaranteed, speaks at the company's head office in Singapore on June 26, 2012. The company that markets quality Japanese fashion brands online moved its head office from Japan to Singapore in November 2011 because Sato finds the business environment in Singapore more vibrant and conducive for smaller companies like his.

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'Cat island' seeks reconstruction from disaster

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - A woman plays with a cat near a fishing cooperative on Tashiro Island in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on June 26, 2011. The island, with less than 100 residents and about 100 cats, is seeking support from the public for its reconstruction efforts from the March quake and tsunami by making use of its name ''cat island.''

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Italian forces in western Afghanistan

HERAT, Afghanistan - Armored vehicles driven by Italian forces patrol the streets of Herat in western Afghanistan on June 26, 2011. At least five people were killed the previous month in attacks in the city claimed to have been carried out by the Taliban.

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Dodgers' Kuroda donates $50,000 for cancer research

LOS ANGELES, United States - Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Hiroki Kuroda attends a press conference at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on June 26, 2011, speaking about his donation of $50,000 to ThinkCure, a nonprofit organization which raises funds for cancer research projects. Kuroda lost both his parents to cancer.

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Fukushima residents rally against nuclear plants

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - People protest against nuclear power in the city of Fukushima on June 26, 2011. Around 1,000 people took part in the rally in the capital of Fukushima Prefecture, where the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is located.

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Jordanian energy minister

AMMAN, Jordan - Jordanian Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Khaled Touqan speaks during an interview in Amman on June 26, 2011. He said a Japan-France engineering consortium bidding for Jordan's nuclear power plant project has little chance of winning if the Japanese parliament does not approve a bilateral nuclear cooperation agreement by the end of the year.

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Gay parade in New York

NEW YORK, United States - A gay ''pride'' parade is held in New York on June 26, 2011. About 2 million people took part.

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Chinese rights advocate Hu Jia

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Hu Jia, a Chinese human rights advocate who has helped AIDS sufferers in China. Hu returned home after he was imprisoned for subversion, his wife Zeng Jinyan said on June 26, 2011.

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Record No. of instruments used in musical performance

OTSU, Japan - Participants in a musical performance smile in front of the camera just after setting a Guinness world record by using 181 instruments in a piece of music, on June 26, 2011, in the city of Hikone, Shiga prefecture in western Japan.

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Sumo wrestlers arrive in Nagoya for July tournament

NAGOYA, Japan - Sumo wrestlers arrive at JR Nagoya Station on June 26, 2011, ahead of the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament starting July 10. The tournament will be the first regular meet since January, after a match-fixing scandal forced the Japan Sumo Association to cancel the regular spring competition in March.

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Earnestly wins Takarazuka horse race

TAKARAZUKA, Japan - Jockey Tetsuzo Sato celebrates on Earnestly after winning the Takarazuka Kinen horse race at Hanshin Racecourse in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, on June 26, 2011. The sixth pick won his first Grade One race in a course record time.

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Gov't panel calls for measures against worst-case tsunami

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshiaki Kawata, professor at Kansai University, who heads a panel under the Central Disaster Prevention Council, speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on June 26, 2011. The government's antidisaster panel urged authorities to prepare for worst-case tsunami in an interim report following the March 11 disaster.

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Seal pup born after disaster arrives at Fukushima aquarium

IWAKI, Japan - An aquarium keeper looks on as a harbor seal pup approaches a pool at Aquamarine Fukushima in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on June 26, 2011. The pup was born in an aquarium in Chiba Prefecture, where his mother, Kurara, and other marine mammals were being cared after the Fukushima aquarium was damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Seal pup born after disaster arrives at Fukushima aquarium

IWAKI, Japan - A harbor seal pup arrives at Aquamarine Fukushima in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on June 26, 2011. The pup was born in an aquarium in Chiba Prefecture, where his mother, Kurara, and other marine mammals were being cared after the Fukushima aquarium was damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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43rd anniv. of Chichijima's return to Japan

CHICHIJIMA, Japan - Local residents perform during a festival on June 25, 2011, on Chichijima, part of the Ogasawara island chain that was newly recognized as a World Heritage site, to commemorate the 43rd anniversary of the returning of the island to Japanese sovereignty from U.S. rule. Chichijima was returned to Japan on June 26, 1968.

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Gov't forum on trade policy

SAITAMA, Japan - Koichiro Gemba, national policy minister, speaks at a debate forum in Saitama on Feb. 26, 2011, organized by the Japanese government to enhance public understanding of its policy of pursuing freer trade. Japan plans to decide on whether to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations around June.