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Serial attacks

TOKYO, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows police officers examining the blood-stained site where a man was fatally stabbed in one of several random street attacks and robberies in a residential area in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, near Tokyo, on March 4, 2014.

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Serial attacks

TOKYO, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows police officers examining the blood-stained site where a man was fatally stabbed in one of several random street attacks and robberies in a residential area in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, near Tokyo, on March 4, 2014.

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Mizuho Bank scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Satoru Nishibori, a former president of Mizuho Bank, answers reporters' questions in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, on Oct. 10, 2013. Nishibori admitted he was informed in January 2011 of the bank's lending to organized crime groups, saying he at least made efforts to eliminate the problem.

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Energy management system in "smart city"

KASHIWA, Japan - Photo taken May 17, 2012, shows a monitor set up in a community center at Kashiwa-no-ha campus city in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, that shows real-time data on electricity consumption, power generated by solar panels and power supply from the local utility. The system adopted by the smart city is aimed at efficiently managing energy to power the community.

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Radioactive soil near Tokyo

KASHIWA, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows an area covered by a plastic sheet where a high level of radioactive cesium has been detected in the soil in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, on Oct. 23, 2011. A science ministry official, after inspecting the site the same day, said the radioactive cesium is likely to have originated in rainwater contaminated with fallout from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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Radioactive soil near Tokyo

KASHIWA, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows an area covered by a plastic sheet where a high level of radioactive cesium has been detected in the soil in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, on Oct. 23, 2011. A science ministry official, after inspecting the site the same day, said the radioactive cesium is likely to have originated in rainwater contaminated with fallout from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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Radioactive soil near Tokyo

KASHIWA, Japan - Science ministry officials examine the site where a high level of radioactive cesium has been detected in the soil in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, on Oct. 23, 2011. A ministry official said after the inspection that the radioactive cesium is likely to have originated in rainwater contaminated with fallout from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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Apparent tornado strikes Japan

TOKYO, Japan - This photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a prefabricated building and fences lying damaged after what appeared to be a tornado struck Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, on April 25, 2011.

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U.S. A-bomb dropping 'couldn't be helped': Japan's defense minister

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma (in file photo) said on June 30 that he thinks the dropping of atomic bombs by the United States in the closing days of World War II ''could not be helped'' as it was aimed at preventing the Soviet Union from entering the war against Japan. ''I understand the bombings brought the war to its end. I think it was something that couldn't be helped,'' he said in a speech at a university in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture.