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Folding screen picture drawn by Takehiko Inoue

KYOTO, Japan, Jan. 16 Kyodo - A folding screen picture drawn by manga artist Takehiko Inoue, titled "Shinran," the founder of the Jodo Shinshu school of Buddhism, is shown to the press at Higashi Honganji temple in Kyoto, western Japan, on March 26, 2011.

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US Air Force To Launch Seventh X-37B Mission

Handout photo dated March 5, 2011 shows the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), the Air Force's unmanned, reusable space plane, landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base at 5:48 a.m. (PDT) June 16. The U.S. Space Force is preparing for the launch of the enigmatic X-37B space plane aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. Taking place at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on December 7th, the upcoming mission, known as USSF-52, marks a significant milestone as it will be the first time the X-37B launches on a Falcon Heavy. While the X-37B’s capabilities and operations remain shrouded in secrecy, the Space Force has shed some light on its mission objectives. The upcoming flight will build upon previous missions that utilized the X-37B as a platform for launching and testing experimental payloads before safely returning them to Earth. Photo by Boeing/ABACAPRESS.COM

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PM Abe visits dwelling complex for disaster victims

HIGASHIMATSUSHIMA, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) visits a public dwelling complex, built for people who lost their homes due to the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster, in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on July 16, 2014.

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PM Abe visits fisheries promotion center in Miyagi

SHICHIGAHAMA, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) visits a fisheries promotion center on July 16, 2014, in Shichigahama, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, damaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster. (Pool photo)

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Couple in Fukushima

TOMIOKA, Japan - Natsumi Yokota (R), 25, and her fiance, Nobuhisa Ohara, 25, pose for photos in wedding outfits in an area well known for cherry trees in Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 16, 2014. The couple, who met after evacuating their homes in the wake of the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis, are scheduled to tie the knot in June.

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Couple in Fukushima

TOMIOKA, Japan - Natsumi Yokota (3rd from R), 25, and her fiance, Nobuhisa Ohara (2nd from L), 25, pose for photos in wedding outfits with their family members in an area well known for cherry trees in Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 16, 2014. The couple, who met after evacuating their homes in the wake of the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis, are scheduled to tie the knot in June.

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Musicians, high school students at charity concert

TOKYO, Japan - Musicians (front row) and members of the brass band of Fukushima Prefecture's Yumoto High School sing the Japanese song "Furusato" (Hometown) during a charity concert held at Tokyo Opera City in the Japanese capital on March 16, 2014, to support the reconstruction of the area affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011. (Pool photo)

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Emperor, empress at charity concert in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko attend a charity concert held at Tokyo Opera City in Tokyo on March 16, 2014, to support the reconstruction of the area affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011. (Pool photo)

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March 2011 memorial concert held at Basilica

ROME, Italy - Saori Takahashi (R), 16-year-old high school student from Japan's Miyagi Prefecture, smiles after playing the violin at a memorial concert held on March 11, 2014, at the Basilica of St Paul Outside the Walls in Rome on the 3rd anniversary of Japan's March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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3 years after quake-tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Panoramic photos show an area of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 16, 2011 (top), five days after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and on Feb. 28, 2014 (bottom).

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Wedding at hotel rebuilt after March 2011 disaster

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Bridegroom Takuro Konno and bride Ayae march down the aisle during their wedding ceremony at Capital Hotel 1000, reconstructed on a hill after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, in Rikuzentaka, Iwate Prefecture, on Feb. 16, 2014.

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Disaster-hit student athletes head to Sochi

NARITA, Japan - Japanese junior high school athletes from regions devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami pose for photos on Feb. 16, 2014, at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, prior to their departure on a weeklong study tour to the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

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Nurse at quake-hit hospital awarded by Red Cross

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken May 14, 2013, shows Aiko Kin, deputy director and head nurse at the Ishinomaki Japanese Red Cross Hospital in Miyagi Prefecture, who was awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal by the International Committee of the Red Cross earlier in the year for her dedication to victims of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan. Kin was among 32 nurses from 16 countries to receive the medal, which honors "exceptional courage and devotion to victims of armed conflict or natural disaster."

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Miss Japan 2012 Hara

LAS VEGAS, United States - Ayako Hara, who represented Japan at the Miss Universe 2012 pageant in Las Vegas, is interviewed by Kyodo News in the U.S. city on Dec. 20, 2012. Hara, 24, who is from Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, an area devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, failed to make it to the shortlist of 16 competitors in the pageant held the previous day, which was won by American Olivia Culpo, 20.

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Japanese coin found at burial site in N. Korea

HAMHUNG, North Korea - Photo taken Sept. 2, 2012, shows what appears to be a Japanese coin that North Korea said was discovered in a survey in March 2011 of a site in Bupyong, believed to contain the remains of Japanese nationals who died around the end of World War II, outside Hamhung in the south of Hamgyong Province in eastern North Korea. A bag containing the coin was excavated there on Sept. 2, 2012. Characters such as "Dai-Nippon," loosely translated as great Japan, "Showa 16 nen," referring to a Japanese era and year equivalent to the year 1941, and "Issen," a small currency unit, are inscribed on the coin.

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Nuclear disaster-hit village reclassified into 3 areas

IITATE, Japan - Officials (C) from the Cabinet Office lock fences on a road leading to the Nagadoro district of Iitate village, Fukushima Prefecture, past midnight of July 16, 2012. The village, nearly all of whose residents have been evacuated since the March 2011 nuclear accident, was reclassified July 17 into three areas with varying levels of accessibility. Due to the high level of radiation exposure, the Nagadoro district was classified as "an area difficult to return to" for a long period of time.

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Nuclear disaster-hit village reclassified into 3 areas

IITATE, Japan - Masato Takahashi, 75, who was born and brought up in the Nagadoro district of Iitate village, Fukushima Prefecture, grips a fence set up on a road leading to the district on July 16, 2012, before the government locks fences on roads leading to the district at midnight. "I feel like I am being locked up in prison even though I didn't do anything bad," he said. The village, nearly all of whose residents have been evacuated since the March 2011 nuclear accident, was reclassified July 17 into three areas with varying levels of accessibility. Due to the high level of radiation exposure, the Nagadoro district was classified as "an area difficult to return to" for a long period of time.

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Nuclear disaster-hit village reclassified into 3 areas

IITATE, Japan - Grass is being cut in the Nagadoro district of Iitate village, Fukushima Prefecture, on July 16, 2012, with a dosimeter (front) showing radiation levels of more than nine microsieverts per hour, before the government locks fences on roads leading to the district at midnight. The village, nearly all of whose residents have been evacuated since the March 2011 nuclear accident, was reclassified July 17 into three areas with varying levels of accessibility. Due to the high level of radiation exposure, the Nagadoro district was classified as "an area difficult to return to" for a long period of time.

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Nuclear disaster-hit village reclassified into 3 areas

IITATE, Japan - Workers decontaminate farmland in the Nagadoro district of Iitate village, Fukushima Prefecture, on July 16, 2012, before the government locks fences on roads leading to the district at midnight. The village, nearly all of whose residents have been evacuated since the March 2011 nuclear accident, was reclassified July 17 into three areas with varying levels of accessibility. Due to the high level of radiation exposure, the Nagadoro district was classified as "an area difficult to return to" for a long period of time.

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Nuclear disaster-hit village reclassified into 3 areas

IITATE, Japan - Residents of Iitate, a village in Fukushima Prefecture, visit their ancestors' graves in the village's Nagadoro district on July 16, 2012, before the government locks fences on roads leading to the district at midnight. The village, nearly all of whose residents have been evacuated since the March 2011 nuclear accident, was reclassified July 17 into three areas with varying levels of accessibility. Due to the high level of radiation exposure, the Nagadoro district was classified as "an area difficult to return to" for a long period of time.

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1st Fukushima beach opens since nuclear disaster

IWAKI, Japan - Three local women working as tour guides, including Yukiei Hakozaki (L), enter the water at Nakoso beach in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on July 16, 2012, marking the start of the swimming season on the Marine Day public holiday. The beach opened the same day as the prefecture's only functioning beach for the summer, with all other beaches to remain closed following the Fukushima nuclear accident in March 2011.

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1st Fukushima beach opens since nuclear disaster

IWAKI, Japan - Parents and their son have fun at Nakoso beach in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on July 16, 2012, the Marine Day public holiday. The beach opened the same day as the prefecture's only functioning beach for the summer, with all other beaches to remain closed following the Fukushima nuclear accident in March 2011.

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1st Fukushima beach opens since nuclear disaster

IWAKI, Japan - Three local women working as tour guides enter the water at Nakoso beach in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on July 16, 2012, marking the start of the swimming season on the Marine Day public holiday. The beach opened the same day as the prefecture's only functioning beach for the summer, with all other beaches to remain closed following the Fukushima nuclear accident in March 2011.

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Ballet troupe from disaster-hit Sendai performs in N.Y.

NEW YORK, United States - Members of modern ballet troupe Yuko Takahashi Dance Company from Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, a city hard hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster, perform at a charity show in New York on May 16, 2012.

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Ballet troupe from disaster-hit Sendai performs in N.Y.

New York, United States - Members of Yuko Takahashi Dance Company from Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, rehearse at a high school in New York on May 16, 2012. The modern ballet troupe from the city, which was severely hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in Japan, held a charity performance the following day in New York.

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Soccer ball lost in Japan's tsunami found off Alaska

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Photo shows 16-year-old Misaki Murakami, a second-year high school student in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on April 22, 2012. A soccer ball, believed to belong to him, was found on the coast of Middleton Island off Alaska after apparently floating across the Pacific Ocean after being swept away from the northeastern Japanese city in the March 2011 tsunami. Murakami received the ball from classmates in March 2005, when he was in third grade, as a farewell gift before he transferred to another school in the city.

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Pettitte practices pitching

TAMPA, United States - New York Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte practices in the bullpen in Tampa, Florida, on March 20, 2012, in the team's spring training. The Yankees said on March 16 that Pettitte, who announced his retirement in February 2011, signed a one-year minor-league contract with the team.

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Pettitte practices pitching

TAMPA, United States - New York Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte practices in the bullpen in Tampa, Florida, on March 20, 2012, in the team's spring training. The Yankees said on March 16 that Pettitte, who announced his retirement in February 2011, signed a one-year minor-league contract with the team.

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Onagawa soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show an area in the town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 16, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 7, 2012 (bottom).

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Kesennuma soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show an area in the city of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 16, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 1, 2012 (bottom).

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Fluid removed from emperor's chest

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken July 16, 2011, shows Japanese Emperor Akihito. The 78-year-old emperor underwent a procedure on March 7, 2012, to remove fluid from his chest that had accumulated since his heart bypass surgery in the previous month, the Imperial Household Agency said.

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Residents protest trial burning of debris from Iwate

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Environment Minister Goshi Hosono (far R) in Shimada, Shizuoka Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, on Feb. 16, 2012, listens to local residents protesting a trial incineration of debris from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster that the city has accepted from a town in Iwate Prefecture to confirm the safety of the operation. The city began the trial burning the same day.

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Residents protest trial burning of debris from Iwate

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Local residents hold signs bearing protest slogans in Shimada, Shizuoka Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, on Feb. 16, 2012, in opposition to a trial incineration of debris from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster that the city has accepted from a town in Iwate Prefecture to confirm the safety of the operation. The city began the trial burning the same day.

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Prince hopes for strengthening anti-disaster measures

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito speaks during an international symposium on the 2011 disaster and tsunami warning systems, at the United Nations University in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Feb. 16, 2012. He expressed hope for taking lessons from the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami to strengthen anti-disaster measures in Japan and the rest of the world. (Pool photo)

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Prince hopes for strengthening anti-disaster measures

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito speaks during an international symposium on the 2011 disaster and tsunami warning systems, at the United Nations University in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Feb. 16, 2012. He expressed hope for taking lessons from the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami to strengthen anti-disaster measures in Japan and the rest of the world. (Pool photo)

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City in Shizuoka begins trial burning of debris from Iwate

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Photo taken on Feb. 16, 2012, shows a waste incinerator plant in Shimada, Shizuoka Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo. The city began the same day trial incineration of debris from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster that it has accepted from a town in Iwate Prefecture to confirm the safety of the operation.

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City in Shizuoka begins trial burning of debris from Iwate

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Environment Minister Goshi Hosono (L) examines debris with a dosimeter in Shimada, Shizuoka Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, on Feb. 16, 2012. Shizuoka Gov. Heita Kawakatsu (C) and Shimada Mayor Katsuro Sakurai are beside him. Shimada began the same day a trial incineration of debris from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster that it has accepted from a town in Iwate Prefecture to confirm the safety of the operation.

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N.Y. trade fair features textile makers from quake-hit area

NEW YORK, United States - A buyer examines a product at a trade fair opened in New York on Jan. 18, 2012, featuring 16 textile and knitting firms from three Japanese prefectures hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Prefabricated school building in disaster-hit Iwate Pref.

KAMAISHI, Japan - Children arrive for the start of third term at a prefabricated school in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, on Jan. 16, 2012, built near their original school that was destroyed by the March 2011 tsunami.

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Korean actor Lee delivers message for kids in quake-hit areas

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean actor Lee Byung Hun (R) receives a letter of gratitude from Ken Hayami (L), executive director of the Japan Committee for UNICEF, in Tokyo on Dec. 16, 2011, for assistance and donations it has received from South Korea after the March quake and tsunami in Japan. Lee, a special representative for the Korean Committee for the United Nations Children's Fund, delivered a message at UNICEF House in Tokyo's Minato Ward expressing his support for children living in areas hit by the disaster.

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6 months after Japan quake, tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Photos of Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, (from L) on March 16, June 2 and Sept. 3, 2011, show that rubble from the March 11 tsunami has been mostly removed. Student volunteers in the newest photo are clearing small pieces of debris.

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6 months after Japan quake, tsunami

ONAGAWA, Japan - Photos of an area of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, (from top) on March 16, June 3 and Sept. 1, 2011, show that the debris of buildings demolished by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami has been removed.

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'Night Train to the Stars' on paddy field

HANAMAKI, Japan - Images of a locomotive and stars created with rice varieties having different colors are shown in a paddy field in Hanamaki, Iwate Prefecture, on Aug. 16, 2011, along with a message of encouragement for the prefecture still suffering from damage caused by the March quake-tsunami disaster. Hanamaki is the birthplace of reputed Japanese poet and children's author Kenji Miyazawa, known for such pieces as the children's story, ''Ginga Tetsudo no Yoru''(Night Train to the Stars). The paddy image can be viewed in its finest colors through late September, according to local citizens.

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S. Korean tourism minister in Sendai

SENDAI, Japan - South Korean Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Choung Byoung Gug (L) talks with a woman at a temporary housing unit for people affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on July 16, 2011.

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Tohoku Rokkon Festival

SENDAI, Japan - People perform ''Suzume Odori'' (sparrow dance) of the Sendai area during Tohoku Rokkon (six souls) Festival in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on July 16, 2011, the first day of the two-day festival. The major festivals of the six prefectures in the Tohoku region, northeastern Japan, are jointly held in the hope of recovering from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Tohoku Rokkon Festival

SENDAI, Japan - Dancers perform the Sansa Dance of Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, during Tohoku Rokkon (six souls) Festival in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on July 16, 2011, the first day of the two-day festival. The major festivals of the six prefectures in the Tohoku region, northeastern Japan, are jointly held in the hope of recovering from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Tohoku Rokkon Festival

SENDAI, Japan - Dancers of the Hanagasa Festival of Yamagata Prefecture leave an area at Tohoku Rokkon (six souls) Festival in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on July 16, 2011, the first day of the two-day festival, as they were not able to finish their scheduled performance because of the overflowing crowd. The major festivals of the six prefectures in the Tohoku region, northeastern Japan, are jointly held in the hope of recovering from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Tohoku Rokkon Festival

SENDAI, Japan - Drummers and dancers perform the Sansa Dance of Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, during Tohoku Rokkon (six souls) Festival in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on July 16, 2011, the first day of the two-day festival. The major festivals of the six prefectures in the Tohoku region, northeastern Japan, are jointly held in the hope of recovering from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Tohoku Rokkon Festival

SENDAI, Japan - Nebuta float (front) from Aomori Prefecture and ''Kanto'' lanterns (back) from Akita Prefecture are exhibited at the Sendai city office in Miyagi Prefecture on July 16, 2011, the first day of the two-day Tohoku Rokkon (six souls) Festival. The major festivals of the six prefectures in the Tohoku region, northeastern Japan, are jointly held in the hope of recovering from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Japanese director stages mime in Tehran to help quake victims

TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian actors perform a mime, directed by Japan's Izumi Ashizawa and based on Avesta, an ancient Persian scripture of Iran's indigenous religion Zoroastrianism, in Tehran on June 16, 2011, during a show to raise money for victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan.