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Comedian duo Woman Rush Hour

OSAKA, Japan, Jan. 23 Kyodo - Daisuke Muramoto (L) and Paradise Nakagawa of Japanese comedic duo Woman Rush Hour pose after winning the 43rd "manzai" standup comedy contest sponsored by public broadcaster NHK in Osaka, western Japan, on March 1, 2013. (Kyodo)

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Town landscape before and after 2011 disaster

SENDAI, Japan - A long conveyer belt to carry earth and sand from the mountains for ground-level-raising purposes is seen from a Kyodo News helicopter in the photo below taken on Sept. 1, 2014, in the 2011 tsunami-devastated city of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, in contrast with the above picture of the same place photographed on March 6, 2013.

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Hyogo assembly member cries during press conference

KOBE, Japan - Ryutaro Nonomura, a member of the Hyogo prefectural assembly, cries during a press conference in Kobe, western Japan, on July 1, 2014. Nonomura admitted to spending around 3 million yen without any receipts for 195 one-day business trips in fiscal 2013 through March.

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Hyogo assembly member cries during press conference

KOBE, Japan - Ryutaro Nonomura, a member of the Hyogo prefectural assembly, cries during a press conference in Kobe, western Japan, on July 1, 2014. Nonomura admitted to spending around 3 million yen without any receipts for 195 one-day business trips in fiscal 2013 through March.

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Private-sector managed public library in Saga Pref.

SAGA, Japan - Visitors relax at Takeo City Library in Takeo, Saga Prefecture, on April 1, 2014, one year after the public library was reopened under the management of a private-sector entity. The total number of visitors to the library in fiscal 2013 ended March 31 reached 920,000, 3.6 times higher than the last fiscal year the library was open for a full 12 months under city management.

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Fallout from U.S. nuke tests continues to take toll

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in December 2013 shows Masatoshi Yamashita, a former high school teacher, giving an interview at his home in Sukumo, Kochi Prefecture. Yamashita, together with his students, confirmed after 30 years of studies that some 1,000 Japanese fishing boats were exposed to "death ash" caused by a series of U.S. nuclear tests in the central Pacific Ocean around 60 years ago, in addition to the Fukuryu Maru No. 5 tuna fishing boat that was exposed to fallout from a U.S. hydrogen bomb detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands on March 1, 1954.

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Lady Gaga in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - American pop star Lady Gaga holds a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 1, 2013. Lady Gaga said she will put a specially made stuffed Hello Kitty doll up for auction in support of reconstruction in areas in northeastern Japan hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Christmas tree in disaster-hit city

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Photo shows a Christmas tree to encourage children in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, hit hard by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, on Dec. 1, 2013, prior to the 1,000th day on Dec. 4 since the disaster.

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Lady Gaga in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - American pop star Lady Gaga holds a stuffed Hello Kitty doll in Tokyo on Dec. 1, 2013. Lady Gaga said she will put the specially made toy up for auction in support of reconstruction in areas in northeastern Japan hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Japan enters 9th Warm Biz season

TOKYO, Japan - Officials of the Environment Ministry work at the ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 1, 2013, wearing items such as sweaters and stoles, as the Japanese government began promoting a nationwide "Warm Biz" energy-saving campaign the same day to encourage the use of warm clothing and food with body-heating effects, rather than electric heating, to fend off the autumn and winter cold. During the ninth Warm Biz season until March 31, 2014, the ministry will encourage setting room temperatures at offices and homes across the country at 20 C.

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Japan enters 9th Warm Biz season

TOKYO, Japan - Officials of the Environment Ministry work at the ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 1, 2013, wearing items such as sweaters and stoles, with an official (front) having a ginger drink to warm herself, as the Japanese government began promoting a nationwide "Warm Biz" energy-saving campaign the same day to encourage the use of warm clothing and food with body-heating effects, rather than electric heating, to fend off the autumn and winter cold. During the ninth Warm Biz season until March 31, 2014, the ministry will encourage setting room temperatures at offices and homes across the country at 20 C.

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2 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show the Yoshida area of Watari town, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 12, 2011 (L), a day after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake, and about two and a half years later on Sept. 1, 2013 (R), complete with a greenhouse complex to grow strawberries.

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2 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show the Arahama area of Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 12, 2011 (top), the day of the Great East Japan Earthquake, and about two and a half years later on Sept. 1, 2013 (bottom).

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2 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area around Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 23, 2011 (L), shortly after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake, and about two and a half years later on Sept. 1, 2013 (R). Many pupils and teachers at the school were killed or became unaccounted for in the disaster.

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2 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show Shizugawa High School in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 13, 2011 (L), shortly after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake, and about two and a half years later on Sept. 1, 2013 (R). People still live in temporary housing units (R) on the school ground, where survivors wrote "SOS." (L).

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2 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos taken from a Kyodo News helicopter show the Shishiori area in the city of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 12, 2011 (L), the day after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake, and about two and a half years later on Sept. 1, 2013 (R). Work began Sept. 9, 2013, to dismantle the fishing vessel Kyotoku Maru No. 18 (front in both) that was washed ashore by the tsunami and has remained stranded.

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Photographer traces history of granddad in U.S.

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Photographer Misaki Matsui opens a photo exhibition titled "Back to California after 100 Years" on March 1, 2013 at the Japan International Cooperation Agency's Japanese Overseas Migration Museum in Yokohama. The exhibition running through May 6 shows a collection of her works tracing the history of her family through trips to follow in the footsteps of her grandfather and great-grandfather in the United States. Photo taken March 1, 2013 at the exhibition venue.

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First post-disaster public housing completed in Miyagi Pref.

YAMAMOTO, Japan - A man unlocks the door of the new public housing home he will move into in the town of Yamamoto, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on April 1, 2013. A ceremony was held the same day in the prefecture following the completion of the first public housing to be built after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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Kyoto intangible cultural heritage holder

KYOTO, Japan - Eiichi Takahashi, the 14th generation owner and chief cook of Hyotei, prepares a fish at his traditional Japanese cuisine restaurant in Kyoto on March 1, 2013. He has been recently designated as part of an intangible cultural heritage by Kyoto Prefecture.

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2 years after quake

NAMIE, Japan - Photos show a road jammed with evacuating cars in the town of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 12, 2011 (top), the day after the massive earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan that triggered a nuclear disaster in the prefecture, and the same location on March 1, 2013. It is empty as the area has been designated a no-entry zone.

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2 years after quake

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Photos show an area in the city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 19, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 1, 2013.

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2 years after quake

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Photos show an area in the city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi 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, 2013. Nothing except for a gas station that has resumed operations shows a sign of reconstruction.

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2 years after quake

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Photos show a bridge in the city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 22, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 1, 2013. The bridge is still under renovation with traffic control.

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2 years after quake

MIYAKO, Japan - Photos show a road in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, on March 12, 2011 (L), the day after the massive earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan, and the same road on March 1, 2013.

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2 years after quake

KAMAISHI, Japan - Aerial photos taken by Kyodo News show the area around Kamaishi port in Iwate Prefecture on April 10, 2011 (L), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 1, 2013, with the large cargo vessel having been removed.

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Ex-NBA star leaves N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Former U.S. National Basketball Association star Dennis Rodman answers reporters' questions at Pyongyang airport before leaving North Korea on March 1, 2013.

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Ex-NBA star leaves N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Former U.S. National Basketball Association star Dennis Rodman is surrounded by reporters at Pyongyang airport before leaving North Korea on March 1, 2013.

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

OKUMA, Japan - A March 1, 2013 photo shows workers at the No. 4 (R) and No. 3 (L back) reactors of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Tokyo Electric Power Co. showed work to decommission the plant ahead of the second anniversary of the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami that triggered the nuclear crisis. (Pool photo)

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Father of Japanese man killed by NYPD patrol car

NEW YORK, United States - Tsukasa Oyamada, the father of 24-year-old Ryo Oyamada, who was struck and killed by a New York Police Department patrol car, holds a press conference in New York on March 1, 2013. He said the family had filed a notice of claim against the department and city.

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Luxor balloon accident

LUXOR, Egypt - Officials from countries concerned attend a memorial service at the site of a fatal hot air balloon accident in Luxor, Egypt, on March 1, 2013. Nineteen foreign tourists were killed in the Feb. 26, 2013, accident.

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Luxor balloon accident

LUXOR, Egypt - Kenji Enoshita (C), a counselor at the Japanese Embassy in Egypt, offers flowers as officials from countries concerned attend a memorial service at the site of a fatal hot air balloon accident in Luxor, Egypt, on March 1, 2013. Nineteen foreign tourists were killed in the Feb. 26, 2013, accident.

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59th anniv. of Bikini Atoll test

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Marshall Islands Senator Kenneth Kedi speaks during a rally in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, on March 1, 2013. Protesters called for the elimination of nuclear weapons at the rally held on the 59th anniversary of the exposure of a Japanese tuna fishing boat to radiation from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in 1954.

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Ex-NBA star leaves N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Former U.S. National Basketball Association star Dennis Rodman gives an autograph to a fan at Pyongyang airport before leaving North Korea on March 1, 2013.

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Chinese with HIV

BEIJING, China - About 70 Henan Province residents with HIV call for state support in front of the Chinese Health Ministry (the building in the background) in Beijing on March 1, 2013. HIV infections spread in the province in the 1990s via sales of blood.

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Chinese with HIV

BEIJING, China - About 70 Henan Province residents with HIV call for state support in front of the Chinese Health Ministry in Beijing on March 1, 2013. HIV infections spread in the province in the 1990s via sales of blood.

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59th anniv. of Bikini Atoll test

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Protesters call for the elimination of nuclear weapons at a rally in Yaizo, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, on March 1, 2013, the 59th anniversary of the exposure of a Japanese tuna fishing boat to radiation from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in 1954.

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

OKUMA, Japan - A March 1, 2013 photo shows tanks for storing water contaminated by radioactive material at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Tokyo Electric Power Co. showed work to decommission the plant ahead of the second anniversary of the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami that triggered the nuclear crisis. (Pool photo)

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

OKUMA, Japan - A March 1, 2013, photo shows a facility under construction to remove around 60 types of nuclides from water at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Tokyo Electric Power Co. showed work to decommission the plant ahead of the second anniversary of the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami that triggered the nuclear crisis. (Pool photo)

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

OKUMA, Japan - A March 1, 2013 photo shows workers at the No. 4 reactor of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Tokyo Electric Power Co. showed work to decommission the plant ahead of the second anniversary of the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami that triggered the nuclear crisis. (Pool photo)

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

OKUMA, Japan - A March 1, 2013, photo shows wrecked vehicles, swept away by a tsunami and left as debris on the sea side of the No. 4 reactor turbine building at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Tokyo Electric Power Co. showed work to decommission the plant ahead of the second anniversary of the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami that triggered the nuclear crisis. (Pool photo)

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

NARAHA, Japan - A March 1, 2013 photo shows workers waiting at the J-Village outpost in Naraha, Fukushima Prefecture, for vehicles to carry them to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in the northeastern Japan prefecture. Tokyo Electric Power Co. showed work to decommission the plant ahead of the second anniversary of the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami that triggered the nuclear crisis. (Pool photo)

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

OKUMA, Japan - A March 1, 2013 photo shows huge tanks for storing water contaminated by radioactive material at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Tokyo Electric Power Co. showed work to decommission the plant ahead of the second anniversary of the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami that triggered the nuclear crisis. (Pool photo)

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

OKUMA, Japan - A March 1, 2013, photo shows the No. 4 reactor building (L) and a facility (R) under construction to remove spent fuel from the pool at the reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Tokyo Electric Power Co. showed work to decommission the plant ahead of the second anniversary of the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami that triggered the nuclear crisis. (Pool photo)

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

OKUMA, Japan - A March 1, 2013, photo shows the common spent-fuel pool of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Tokyo Electric Power Co. showed work to decommission the plant ahead of the second anniversary of the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami that triggered the nuclear crisis. (Pool photo)

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

OKUMA, Japan - Takeshi Takahashi, chief of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, explains the work to remove spent fuel from the pool of the No. 4 reactor building at the plant on March 1, 2013. Tokyo Electric Power Co. showed work to decommission the plant ahead of the second anniversary of the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami that triggered the nuclear crisis. (Pool photo)

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

OKUMA, Japan - A March 1, 2013 photo shows huge tanks for storing water contaminated by radioactive material at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Tokyo Electric Power Co. showed work to decommission the plant ahead of the second anniversary of the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami that triggered the nuclear crisis. (Pool photo)

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S. Korea boycott

SEOUL, South Korea - Rally participants throw eggs at a board depicting Japanese products in Seoul, South Korea, on March 1, 2013. The rally by a group of small business owners in South Korea said the boycott is in response to Japan's sending of a central government official for the first time to a local government ceremony commemorating the day that a pair of South Korean-held islets were incorporated into Shimane Prefecture.

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Benin president in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito (R) meets with Beninese President Boni Yayi (L) at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on March 1, 2013. (Pool photo)

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S. Korea boycott

SEOUL, South Korea - A rally is held in Seoul, South Korea, on March 1, 2013, calling for a boycott of Japanese goods. A group of small business owners in South Korea said the boycott is in response to Japan's sending of a central government official for the first time to a local government ceremony commemorating the day that a pair of South Korean-held islets were incorporated into Shimane Prefecture.

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Microsoft tablet

TOKYO, Japan - Women hold Microsoft Corp.'s first tablet computer, the Surface, during an event in Tokyo on March 1, 2013. Microsoft said it will launch the device in Japan on March 15, 2013.