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CHINA-GUANGXI-NAPO COUNTY-DEVELOPMENT (CN)

(230803) -- NAPO COUNTY, Aug. 3, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This combination of two aerial photos shows houses built with bricks and mortar in Shuinongtun on March 18, 2018 (above) and new houses constructed with concrete and steel in Shuinongtun on Oct. 16, 2020, in Napo County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Guangxi started at the end of 2008 an infrastructure project in its border area to improve the life of local people. During the five years between 2008 and 2012, Guangxi had conducted 8,801 projects in the Napo border area, covering various aspects of people's daily life including transportation, education, water supply, house renovation and so on, benefiting over 77,000 people from 59 villages in six townships. With continuous efforts of local government and people, living conditions in border area of Guangxi have been improved fundamentally. (Xinhua/Zhang Ailin)

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Famed Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto

Photo taken on July 16, 2012, shows world-renowned musician and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto speaking at an anti-nuclear power rally at Yoyogi Park in Tokyo. Sakamoto, also the keyboardist of the legendary electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra, known as YMO, died in late March 2023 at 71 after battling cancer.

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CHINA-GUANGXI-DAHUA-WATER SUPPLY-DEVELOPMENT (CN)

(230321) --DAHUA, March 21, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on July 16, 2012 shows a villager go uphill to carry water in Nongyong Village of Bansheng Township, Dahua Yao Autonomous County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Situated at the center of the Karst landforms in west Guangxi, Dahua Yao Autonomous County had suffered from severe water deficit for ages. Since 2012, local government has been managing the water deficit through various measures like building water tanks or reservoirs to collect water or constructing water supply projects which could divert river water onto mountain areas to ease water shortage and provide safe drinking water for local people. Afters years of efforts, safe and convenient water supply is no longer a problem for the over 200,000 rural population in Dahua. (Xinhua/Huang Xiaobang)

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Former Japanese army officer Onoda dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Hiroo Onoda, a former Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer, riding a horse at his farm near Campo Grande, Brazil, in March 2012. Onoda, who continued fighting on a Philippine island for decades after Japan's surrender in World War II, died of heart failure at a Tokyo hospital on Jan. 16, 2014 at age 91.

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JR Kyushu exhibition in Bangkok

BANGKOK, Thailand - Designer Eiji Mitooka visits an exhibition in Bangkok on March 16, 2013, showcasing train models he designed for Kyushu Railway Co., known as JR Kyushu. When Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra visited Japan in April 2012, she was impressed by the bullet train services operated by JR Kyushu, both in their technical and design aspects. She then invited JR Kyushu and Mitooka to exhibit their successful experience in Thailand.

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JR Kyushu exhibition in Bangkok

BANGKOK, Thailand - Designer Eiji Mitooka visits an exhibition in Bangkok on March 16, 2013, showcasing train models he designed for Kyushu Railway Co., known as JR Kyushu. When Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra visited Japan in April 2012, she was impressed by the bullet train services operated by JR Kyushu, both in their technical and design aspects. She then invited JR Kyushu and Mitooka to exhibit their successful experience in Thailand.

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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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Chinese protest over Senkakus

SHANGHAI, China - Demonstrators march toward the Japanese Consulate General in Shanghai on Aug. 16, 2012, following the arrest by Japan the previous day of 14 people, including several activists from Hong Kong, after some of them landed on one of the Japan-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.

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Chinese protest over Senkakus

BEIJING, China - Demonstrators march in front of the Japanese Embassy in Beijing on Aug. 16, 2012, following the arrest by Japan the previous day of 14 people, including several activists from Hong Kong, after some of them landed on one of the Japan-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.

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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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Nishikori to play Nadal

MIAMI, United States - Kei Nishikori of Japan acknowledges the crowd after defeating Lukas Rosol of Czech Republic 6-4, 6-2 in the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami, Florida, on March 25, 2012. Nishikori will play world No. 2 Rafael Nadal of Spain in the last 16 of the tournament.

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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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S. Korea wary of North's satellite launch plan

SEOUL, South Korea - Members of a conservative group protest in Seoul on March 20, 2012, over North Korea's plan to launch a rocket carrying a satellite between April 12 and 16.

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Nobel laureate Oe at French book fair

PARIS, France - Japanese Nobel laureate for literature Kenzaburo Oe (L) speaks during a debate session of ''Salon du livre de Paris'' in Paris, the largest book fair in France, on March 16, 2012.

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Pro-Syria rally in Jordan

AMMAN, Jordan - About 200 Syrians stage a pro-Syrian government demonstration in front of the Syrian Embassy in Amman, Jordan, on March 16, 2012.

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Pro-Syria rally in Jordan

AMMAN, Jordan - About 200 Syrians stage a pro-Syrian government demonstration in front of the Syrian Embassy in Amman, Jordan, on March 16, 2012.

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Japan urges N. Korea not to launch rocket

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba answers reporters' questions at the ministry in Tokyo on March 16, 2012, regarding North Korea's announcement the same day that it will launch a rocket mounted with an earth observation satellite in mid-April. Gemba said the North Korean launch would violate a U.N. Security Council resolution.

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Gold medalist Takahashi dating ex-trainer

GIFU, Japan - Naoko Takahashi, the 2000 Sydney Olympics gold medalist in women's marathon, meets reporters at the Gifu prefectural government office on March 16, 2012, on media reports the same day about her being in a relationship with her former trainer Ko Nishimura. Takahashi, 39, confirmed the reports.

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Cadmium-polluted farmland restored in Toyama

TOYAMA, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows an area along the Jinzu River in Toyama on the Sea of Japan on March 16, 2012. A ceremony held on March 17, 2012, marked the completion of a 33-year project to restore the cadmium-polluted farmland along the river, the cause of one of Japan's four major pollution-related diseases in the postwar era of economic growth.

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Japan urges N. Korea not to launch rocket

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba (far R) answers reporters' questions at the ministry in Tokyo on March 16, 2012, regarding North Korea's announcement the same day that it will launch a rocket mounted with an earth observation satellite in mid-April. Gemba said the North Korean launch would violate a U.N. Security Council resolution.

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Adventurer gives up solo trek to North Pole

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Yasunaga Ogita, a Japanese adventurer. He gave up his solo and unassisted trek on foot across about 800 kilometers of Arctic ice to the North Pole due to worsening weather conditions, his support office said March 16, 2012.

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Gold medalist Takahashi dating ex-trainer

GIFU, Japan - Naoko Takahashi, the 2000 Sydney Olympics gold medalist in women's marathon, meets reporters at the Gifu prefectural government office on March 16, 2012, on media reports the same day about her being in a relationship with her former trainer Ko Nishimura. Takahashi, 39, confirmed the reports.

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Laotian prime minister in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Laotian Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda shake hands at the latter's office in Tokyo on March 16, 2012.

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N. Korea envoy Song in Mongolia

ULAN BATOR, Mongolia - Song Il Ho, North Korea's ambassador for normalization talks with Japan, answers reporters' questions at Ulan Bator airport upon his arrival from Beijing airport on March 16, 2012.

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New sports car co-developed by Fuji Heavy, Toyota

OTA, Japan - Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. President Yasuyuki Yoshinaga (L) and Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda shake hands at a plant of Fuji Heavy in Ota, Gunma Prefecture on March 16, 2012. Fuji Heavy began the same day full-fledged production of a new sports car it co-developed with Toyota. The rear-wheel-drive vehicle, to be sold by Fuji Heavy as the Subaru BRZ from March 28 and by Toyota as the ''86'' from April 6, is manufactured at the plant.

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New sports car co-developed by Fuji Heavy, Toyota

OTA, Japan - Photo taken March 16, 2012, shows the Subaru BRZ sports car at a plant of Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. in Ota, Gunma Prefecture. Fuji Heavy began the same day full-fledged production of the rear-wheel-drive vehicle it co-developed with Toyota Motor Corp., which will also sell the vehicle as the Toyota 86.

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Chongqing newspaper reporting on Bo's dismissal

CHONGQING, China - A man shows a newspaper reporting on the dismissal of Bo Xilai as head of Chongqing municipality and the appointment of Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang as his successor, in Chongqing, southwestern China, on March 16, 2012.

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'Scariest' haunted house attraction in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - A haunted house attraction at Toei Kyoto Studio Park in Kyoto, western Japan, is unveiled to the media on March 16, 2012, before its reopening the following day after renovation. The theme park is promoting it as being ''the scariest ever.''

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N. Korea envoy heads to Mongolia

BEJING, China - Song Il Ho, North Korea's ambassador for normalization talks with Japan, arrives at Beijing airport on March 16, 2012. He told reporters that he will travel to Mongolia and has expressed willingness to meet with Hiroshi Nakai there. Nakai is a former Japanese minister in charge of the issue of Pyongyang's past abductions of Japanese nationals.

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Last run of 300 series shinkansen train

TOKYO, Japan - Many railway fans rush to take photos of a 300 series shinkansen train (R) at JR Tokyo Station on March 16, 2012, before it leaves on the last run of the series on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Construction resumes on nuclear fuel storage facility

AOMORI, Japan - Photo shows construction of a facility to temporarily store the spent nuclear fuel in Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, on March 16, 2012. Recyclable-Fuel Storage Co. said on the same day that it has resumed construction about a year after work was halted for safety checks in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis.

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Uniqlo store in Ginza

TOKYO, Japan - Fast Retailing Co. opens its largest Uniqlo store in Tokyo's posh Ginza district on March 16, 2012. The Uniqlo Ginza Store boasts 12 floors and a total retail space of 4,950 square meters.

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Construction resumes on nuclear fuel storage facility

AOMORI, Japan - Photo shows construction of a facility to temporarily store the spent nuclear fuel in Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, on March 16, 2012. Recyclable-Fuel Storage Co. said on the same day that it has resumed construction about a year after work was halted for safety checks in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis.

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New iPad hits Japan market

TOKYO, Japan - Customers rejoice after buying the new version of Apple Inc.'s popular iPad multimedia tablet computer in Tokyo on March 16, 2012. Apple launched the product in Japan that day.

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New iPad hits Japan market

TOKYO, Japan - Customers line up at Apple Store Ginza in Tokyo on March 16, 2012, as Apple Inc. launched a new version of its popular iPad multimedia tablet computer in Japan that day.

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Critic Yoshimoto dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Takaaki Yoshimoto, a noted literary critic and the father of popular Japanese writer Banana Yoshimoto. He died of pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital on March 16, 2012. He was 87.

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New amusement zone at Universal Studios Japan

OSAKA, Japan - Some 1,000 people were invited to Universal Wonderland, a new amusement zone at Universal Studios Japan in Osaka, on March 14, 2012, to celebrate its completion ahead of its official debut on March 16.

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New amusement zone at Universal Studios Japan

OSAKA, Japan - Some 1,000 people were invited to Universal Wonderland, a new amusement zone at Universal Studios Japan in Osaka, on March 14, 2012, to celebrate its completion ahead of its official debut on March 16.