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New Year in disaster area

KESENNUMA, Japan - The New Year sunrise lights up an area devastated by the March 2011 tsunami in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on Jan. 1, 2012. The tsunami reached three-fourths of the height of the tower seen in the center.

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New Year in disaster area

ONAGAWA, Japan - A former residential area in the town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, devastated by the March 2011 tsunami is lit by the New Year's sunrise on Jan. 1, 2012.

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New Year in disaster area

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - A mailman delivers New Year cards in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on Jan. 1, 2012. In the background are the remains of the town government building devastated by the March 2011 tsunami.

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Tsunami effect still felt big in Kesennuma city

SENDAI, Japan - A tsunami-swept fishing boat in the Shishiori district of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, is seen above on March 1, 2012, before its removal last year, while the temporary shopping area "Central Ishinomaki Revival Marche" in the background is being moved to prefab stores seen in the foreground in the photo below taken on Aug. 31, 2014, to raise the ground level of the area.

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U.S. sailors convicted for rape

NAHA, Japan - A March 1, 2013, photo shows the Naha District Court in Okinawa Prefecture, southwestern Japan. The court the same day sentenced two U.S. sailors to prison terms of nine and 10 years for raping and injuring a Japanese woman in her 20s in Okinawa Prefecture in October 2012.

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March against global warming

DOHA, Qatar - Environmental protection group members march in Doha, on Dec. 1, 2012, calling for enhancement of measures against global warming. The 18th Conference of Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change is under way in the Qatari capital.

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March against global warming

DOHA, Qatar - Environmental protection group members march in Doha, on Dec. 1, 2012, calling for enhancement of measures against global warming. The 18th Conference of Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change is under way in the Qatari capital.

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Sharp foresees record net loss

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Takashi Okuda speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 1, 2012. Sharp announced it expects to post its largest-ever group net loss of 450 billion yen for fiscal 2012 to March 31, 2013, due mainly to its flagging television business.

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Sharp foresees record net loss

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Takashi Okuda speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 1, 2012. Sharp announced it expects to post its largest-ever group net loss of 450 billion yen for fiscal 2012 to March 31, 2013, due mainly to its flagging television business.

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Sharp foresees record net loss

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Takashi Okuda speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 1, 2012. Sharp announced it expects to post its largest-ever group net loss of 450 billion yen for fiscal 2012 to March 31, 2013, due mainly to its flagging television business.

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Sharp foresees record net loss

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Takashi Okuda speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 1, 2012. Sharp announced it expects to post its largest-ever group net loss of 450 billion yen for fiscal 2012 to March 31, 2013, due mainly to its flagging television business.

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Sharp to forecast record net loss of 450 bil. yen

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken in September 2012 shows the headquarters of Sharp Corp. in Osaka's Abeno Ward. Sharp will revise down its earnings forecast for the current fiscal year ending March 31, 2013, projecting a record group net loss of 450 billion yen, mainly due to its flagging television-making business, sources close to the matter said Nov. 1, 2012.

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Disaster-hit students head to London

NARITA, Japan - Junior high school students from Japanese prefectures hit by the March 2011 quake and tsunami prepare to depart Narita airport near Tokyo on Aug. 1, 2012, for London. About 20 children from Iwate, Miyagi, Fukushima and Ibaraki prefectures will watch some of the Games and meet local children as guests of the Japanese Olympic Committee.

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"Boot camp" experience at Hokkaido SDF unit

SAPPORO, Japan - Participants at a training camp event held by the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force's Northern Army headquarters march by a tank in Eniwa, Hokkaido, on July 1, 2012.

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Japan to ban serving of raw beef liver

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows raw beef liver served at a Tokyo barbecue restaurant in March 2012. The health ministry will ban restaurants from serving raw beef liver, a popular dish in Japan, from July 1, 2012, in the wake of a series of food poisoning incidents caused by raw beef, including fatal cases, a government panel agreed on June 12, 2012.

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Sendai man to serve as Olympic torch runner

SENDAI, Japan - Sadaharu Mishina (L), 31, an employee at ANA Holiday Inn Sendai, shakes hands with his supervisor Kimifusa Shibata, 47, in Sendai, northeastern Japan, on June 1, 2012. Mishina, who lost his 2-year-old daughter and saw his home damaged in the March 2011 disaster that struck the region, will be a torch runner in the upcoming London Olympics, running with the sacred flame in a suburb of Leeds, a city in the north of England, on June 25.

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Young ibises in Sado

SADO, Japan - Two young crested ibises (L) look for food beside one of their parents (R) in a fallow rice paddy in Sado, Niigata Prefecture, on June 1, 2012. The young birds were two of three crested ibis chicks born in late April 2012 to a pair released in March 2011. They are believed to have begun learning to fly in late May 2012, becoming the first crested ibises to do so in the wild in Japan for 38 years. (Pool photo)

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Young ibises in Sado

SADO, Japan - A young crested ibis (L) lands beside one of its parents in a fallow rice paddy in Sado, Niigata Prefecture, on June 1, 2012. The young bird is one of three crested ibis chicks born in late April 2012 to a pair released in March 2011. They are believed to have begun learning to fly in late May 2012, becoming the first crested ibises to do so in the wild in Japan for 38 years. (Pool photo)

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Young ibises in Sado

SADO, Japan - Two young crested ibises spread their wings in a fallow rice paddy in Sado, Niigata Prefecture, on June 1, 2012. The young birds were two of three crested ibis chicks born in late April 2012 to a pair released in March 2011. They are believed to have begun learning to fly in late May 2012, becoming the first crested ibises to do so in the wild in Japan for 38 years. (Pool photo)

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Utilities, organizations donate 26.3 bil. yen in 5 years

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows Osaka Science Museum in Osaka on May 1, 2012. Kansai Electric Power Co. donated 250 million yen to the Osaka municipal government to help finance renovation of the museum. Japan's electric power companies, their subsidiaries and related organizations provided at least 26.3 billion yen (about $329 million) to local governments mostly as donations during five years through March 31, 2012.

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Kumamoto given expanded administrative powers

KUMAMOTO, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows an area of the city of Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefecture, on March 27, 2012, with a bullet train passing on the Kyushu Shinkansen Line (front). The city was accorded expanded administrative authority as it was given the status of ''government ordinance-designated city'' on April 1, 2012.

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Hearn exhibition in Matsue

MATSUE, Japan - The inside of the Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, is pictured on March 30, 2012, ahead of a year-long exhibition from April 1, 2012. It follows through photographs the footsteps of writer Lafcadio Hearn, who became a naturalized Japanese known as Yakumo Koizumi.

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Japan protests U.S. paper ads

NEW YORK, United States - Photo shows full-page opinion ads in the March 1, 2012, edition of The New York Times, apparently claiming South Korean sovereignty over disputed islets under the pretext of tourism promotion. The Japanese Consulate General in New York said on March 15, 2012, that Japan has lodged a protest with the U.S. paper. The ads used the Korean name Dokdo for the Takeshima Islands, South Korean-controlled islets claimed by Japan in the Sea of Japan.

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Soon after disaster, a year later

TOKYO, Japan - Photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area with a torii gate for a Shinto shrine in the village of Noda, Iwate Prefecture, on March 14, 2011 (L), shortly after the March 11, 2011, quake and tsunami, and on March 1, 2012 (R).

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Soon after disaster, a year later

TOKYO, Japan - Photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 12, 2011 (top), shortly after the March 11, 2011, quake and tsunami, and on March 1, 2012 (bottom).

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Soon after disaster, a year later

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show an area in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 12, 2011 (L), shortly after the March 11, 2011, quake and tsunami, and on March 1, 2012 (R).

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Soon after disaster, a year later

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show an area of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 28, 2011 (top), shortly after the March 11, 2011, quake and tsunami, and on March 1, 2012 (bottom), in which restoration work is under way after fishing boats brought ashore by the tsunami were removed.

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Soon after disaster, a year later

TOKYO, Japan - Photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, on March 12, 2011 (top), shortly after the March 11, 2011, quake and tsunami, and on March 1, 2012 (bottom).

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Soon after disaster, a year later

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show an area of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 14, 2011 (top), shortly after the March 11, 2011, quake and tsunami, and on March 1, 2012 (bottom), in which a fishing boat brought ashore by the tsunami has not yet been removed.

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Soon after disaster, a year later

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show an area of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 13, 2011 (top), shortly after the March 11, 2011, quake and tsunami, and on March 1, 2012 (bottom), in which debris has been removed from a road and some temporary buildings have been constructed.

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Soon after disaster, a year later

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show an area of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 15, 2011 (top), shortly after the March 11, 2011, quake and tsunami, and on March 1, 2012 (bottom), in which a fishing boat brought ashore by the tsunami has not yet been removed.

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Ofunato soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos taken from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area in the city of Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, on March 13, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 1, 2012 (bottom), in which debris has mostly been removed.

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Yamada soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show an area in the town of Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, on April 7, 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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Miyako soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos taken from a Kyodo News helicopter show a levee in Taro district in the city of Miyako, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 23, 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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Kesennuma soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos taken from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area in the city of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 12, 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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Yamada soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos taken from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area in the town of Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, on March 23, 2011 (L), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 1, 2012 (R), in which the building (front) for JR Rikuchu-Yamada Station has been removed.

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Kesennuma soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos taken from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area in the city of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 12, 2011 (L), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 1, 2012 (R), in which a fishing boat brought ashore by the tsunami has not yet been removed.

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Ishinomaki soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show a building in the town of Ogatsu, part of the city of Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture, on April 1, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 2, 2012 (bottom), in which a bus swept by the tsunami still remains on the building.

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Kesennuma soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show an area in the city of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 13, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 1, 2012 (bottom). The foundations of a house destroyed by the tsunami are seen after the removal of debris.

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Kesennuma soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show an area in the city of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 17, 2011 (L), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 1, 2012 (R).

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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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Kesennuma soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show a pedestrian overpass in the city of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 13, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same overpass on March 1, 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 18, 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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Kesennuma soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show an area in the city of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 18, 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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Otsuchi soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show an area in the town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on March 13, 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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Otsuchi soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show an area in the town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on March 14, 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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Yamada soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show a coastal area in the town of Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, on March 14, 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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Yamada soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show an area in the town of Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, on March 14, 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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Otsuchi soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show an area in the town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on March 13, 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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Castro asks Japanese to tell of nuclear experience

HAVANA, Cuba - Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro (R) shakes hands with Hiroshi Nakamura (L), an atomic bombing survivor, in Havana on March 1, 2012. Castro took part in a gathering of Japanese atomic-bomb survivors organized by the Cuban government and a Japanese NGO that day in the Cuban capital and called on them to convey to the world their experiences regarding the recent nuclear crisis in Japan and the 1945 U.S. bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.