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Restoration of 'miracle pine'

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - A part of the trunk of the "miracle pine" that initially withstood the massive March 2011 tsunami is suspended from a crane to be planted into the ground in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on Feb. 12, 2013, as restoration of the tree reached the final stage. The remnants of the tree were dissected in September 2012 into several parts for anti-decay treatment.

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Fukushima peaches sold abroad for 1st time since crisis

BANGKOK, Thailand - Peaches grown in Fukushima Prefecture are displayed for sale at a department store in Bangkok on Sept. 12, 2012, which is the first time for Fukushima grown fruits to have been exported abroad since the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.

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"Miracle pine" cut down for preservation

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Photo shows the so-called "miracle pine" tree, all the braches of which have been cut off, in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on Sept. 12, 2012. The city conducted the project to move the tree for preservation, after the roots of the plant that survived the March 2011 tsunami were found to be dying from exposure to seawater.

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"Miracle pine" cut down for preservation

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Photo sequence shows the so-called "miracle pine" tree in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, being cut down on Sept. 12, 2012. The city conducted the project to move the tree for preservation, after the roots of the plant that survived the March 2011 tsunami were found to be dying from exposure to seawater.

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"Miracle pine" cut down for preservation

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Photo shows the so-called "miracle pine" tree after being cut off from its roots in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on Sept. 12, 2012. The city conducted the project to move the tree for preservation, after the roots of the plant that survived the March 2011 tsunami were found to be dying from exposure to seawater.

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"Miracle pine" cut down for preservation

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Photo shows the so-called "miracle pine" tree falling in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on Sept. 12, 2012, after being cut off from its roots. The city conducted the project to move the tree for preservation, after the roots of the plant that survived the March 2011 tsunami were found to be dying from exposure to seawater.

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Google, Twitter to analyze Net data to help disaster victims

TOKYO, Japan - Tomoe Makino, partnership director of the Japanese unit of social media Twitter, holds a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 12, 2012. The Japanese units of U.S. Internet giant Google Inc. and Twitter said the same day they will analyze data circulated on the Internet after the devastating March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan to explore ways to support disaster victims more effectively.

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"Miracle pine" cut down for preservation

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Photo shows the so-called "miracle pine" tree, all the braches of which have been cut off, in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on Sept. 12, 2012. The city conducted the project to move the tree for preservation, after the roots of the plant that survived the March 2011 tsunami were found to be dying from exposure to seawater.

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"Miracle pine" cut down for preservation

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows people watching the so-called "miracle pine" tree being cut down in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on Sept. 12, 2012. The city conducted the project to move the tree for preservation, after the roots of the plant that survived the March 2011 tsunami were found to be dying from exposure to seawater.

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"Miracle pine" cut down for preservation

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - People watch the so-called "miracle pine" tree being cut down in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on Sept. 12, 2012. The city conducted the project to move the tree for preservation, after the roots of the plant that survived the March 2011 tsunami were found to be dying from exposure to seawater.

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"Miracle pine" cut down for preservation

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Photo shows the so-called "miracle pine" tree, some branches of which have been cut off, in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on Sept. 12, 2012. The city conducted the project to move the tree for preservation, after the roots of the plant that survived the March 2011 tsunami were found to be dying from exposure to seawater.

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"Miracle pine" cut down for preservation

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - A ritual is held in front of the so-called "miracle pine" tree in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on Sept. 12, 2012, before it was cut down to be moved for preservation. The city conducted the project after the roots of the plant that survived the March 2011 tsunami were found to be dying from exposure to seawater.

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1 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show a ballpark in the city of Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 12, 2011 (L), shortly after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami, and about one and a half years later on Sept. 4, 2012 (R).

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1 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show the Haramachi thermal power plant in the city of Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 12, 2011 (L), shortly after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami, and about one and a half years later on Sept. 4, 2012 (R).

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1 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 12, 2011 (top), after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami, and about one and a half years later on Sept. 3, 2012 (bottom). Many people have visited the Minamisanriku municipal government's symbolic disaster office building seen in the photos to mourn the victims of the disaster.

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1 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 12, 2011 (top), after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and about one and a half years later on Sept. 3, 2012 (bottom). An improvised convenience store outlet has begun operating near the fishing boat carried ashore by the tsunami.

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Curtain drawn on London Games, passes baton to Rio

LONDON, Britain - Guards march during the closing ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics at the Olympic Stadium on Aug. 12, 2012.

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Curtain drawn on London Games, passes baton to Rio

LONDON, Britain - Guards march during the closing ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics at the Olympic Stadium on Aug. 12, 2012.

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San Onofre nuclear power plant

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in March 2011 shows the San Onofre nuclear power plant in southern California. The number of incidents of abnormal attrition -- or wearing away or grinding down by friction -- found in Japanese-made steam generator tubes in two reactors at the power plant has reached around 15,000, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said in a report on July 12, 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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Armed GSDF troops march in Tokyo for drill

TOKYO, Japan - Rifle-carrying Ground Self-Defense Force troops in camouflage march in an urban area of Tokyo's Nerima Ward as part of their training as rangers on June 12, 2012. It was the first time in 42 years for armed GSDF troops to march through urban areas of Tokyo, with the last such occasion taking place in 1970, according to the GSDF.

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Armed GSDF troops march in Tokyo for drill

TOKYO, Japan - Rifle-carrying Ground Self-Defense Force troops in camouflage march in an urban area of Tokyo's Itabashi Ward as part of their training as rangers on June 12, 2012. It was the first time in 42 years for armed GSDF troops to march through urban areas of Tokyo, with the last such occasion taking place in 1970, according to the GSDF.

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Armed GSDF troops march in Tokyo for drill

TOKYO, Japan - Rifle-carrying Ground Self-Defense Force troops in camouflage march in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward as part of their training as rangers on June 12, 2012. It was the first time in 42 years for armed GSDF troops to march through urban areas of Tokyo, with the last such occasion taking place in 1970, according to the GSDF.

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Uyghur in Palau says China is the terrorist

MANILA, Philippines - Adel Noori, one of six Uyghurs living in exile in Palau, is interviewed by Kyodo News in the Pacific island country in March 2012. He said in a telephone interview May 12, 2012, the charge by China that Uyghurs are terrorists is wrong, and it is China that invaded the Uyghur homeland more than 60 years ago and oppressed his countrymen.

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Emperor, empress travel to disaster-hit Sendai

SENDAI, Japan - Emperor Akihito (C) and Empress Michiko (R) attend on May 12, 2012, a lecture at the Miyagi prefectural government office in Sendai by Tohoku University professor Fumihiko Imamura (L) about quake countermeasures. The imperial couple traveled to Sendai the same day for a two-day visit, during which they will meet with people still living in temporary housing 14 months after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami devastated the area. (Pool photo)

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Abbas in Japan

SENDAI, Japan - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (2nd from L) is welcomed by Isoo Sasaki (R), mayor of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, upon arriving at Sendai airport in the prefecture on April 12, 2012. After visiting the northeastern Japanese prefecture hit by the March 2011 quake and tsunami, Abbas headed to Tokyo later in the day for a meeting with Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda.

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Abbas in Japan

SENDAI, Japan - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (C) arrives at Sendai airport, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 12, 2012. After visiting the northeastern Japanese prefecture hit by the March 2011 quake and tsunami, Abbas headed to Tokyo later in the day for a meeting with Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda.

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Tibetan monks in China

BEIJING, China - Buddhist monks undergo training at a Tibetan temple in Xiahe County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in China's Gansu Province, on March 12, 2012.

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Radiation expert fighting Fukushima contamination

TOKYO, Japan - Shinzo Kimura (L), a radiation hygiene expert, talks with Chuhei Sakai (C), the leader of a group of residents promoting decontamination in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, while measuring radiation levels in Iwaki on Feb. 22, 2012. Kimura quit his job at the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health when his boss at the government-affiliated institute refused to give the green light for the 44-year-old scientist's trip to Fukushima to collect soil and air samples immediately after the explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on March 12, 2011.

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Radiation expert fighting Fukushima contamination

TOKYO, Japan - Shinzo Kimura (L), a radiation hygiene expert, gives a lecture on radiation during a local women's association meeting in Nihommatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, on Feb. 21, 2012. The 44-year-old scientist quit his job at the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health when his boss at the government-affiliated institute refused to give the green light for his trip to Fukushima to collect soil and air samples immediately after the explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on March 12, 2011.

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Kurds in Syria

NUSAYBIN, Turkey - Kurds stage an antigovernment demonstration in Qamishli, northeastern Syria, in a photo taken across the border from Nusaybin, Turkey, on March 12, 2012.

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4 years after Tibet rioting

BEIJING, China - Monks undergo training at a Tibetan temple in Xiahe County in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of China's Gansu Province on March 12, 2012, just ahead of the anniversary of the March 14, 2008 rioting in Lhasa in China's Tibet Autonomous Region.

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Play about Fukushima post-disaster struggle

NEW YORK, United States - A play titled ''Hikobae'' is performed at the U.N. headquarters in New York on March 12, 2012. The piece depicts the efforts of doctors, nurses and firefighters who risked their lives to protect patients and residents, based on interviews with medical staff at a hospital in Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, which was hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster and ensuing nuclear crisis.

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N. Korean envoy in N.Y.

NEW YORK, United States - Ri Yong Ho, North Korea's chief envoy to the six-party talks on the country's nuclear program, answers reporters' questions in New York on March 12, 2012.

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Play about Fukushima post-disaster struggle

NEW YORK, United States - Soma Mayor Hidekiyo Tachiya speaks before a performance of a play titled ''Hikobae'' at the U.N. headquarters in New York on March 12, 2012. The piece depicts the efforts of doctors, nurses and firefighters who risked their lives to protect patients and residents, based on interviews with medical staff at a hospital in Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, which was hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster and ensuing nuclear crisis.

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Interpreters reunited with India disaster response team

NEW DELHI, India - Kenichiro Hiramoto (2nd from R, front) and three other Japanese are pictured with Alok Avasthy (3rd from R, front), the Pune commandant of the National Disaster Response Force, and force members at the NDRF headquarters outside New Delhi, on March 12, 2012. The Japanese group, who served as volunteer interpreters for members of India's disaster response team sent to Japan in the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster to search for the missing, were reunited with the Indian relief workers.

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Todaiji festival

NARA, Japan - Photo with 2-minute exposure shows the bearer of a giant torch leading a group of Buddhist monks passing the outer corridors of Nigatsudo hall at Todaiji temple in Nara on March 12, 2012, as part of the temple's Omizutori festival.

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Todaiji festival

NARA, Japan - Sparks fall from a giant torch held by a bearer leading a group of Buddhist monks passing the outer corridors of Nigatsudo hall at Todaiji temple in Nara on March 12, 2012, as part of the temple's Omizutori festival.

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Japan, Mongolia premiers

TOKYO, Japan - Mongolian Prime Minister Sukhbaatar Batbold (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda shake hands in Tokyo on March 12, 2012. The two countries agreed to begin negotiating the fast-growing north Asian nation's first bilateral free trade agreement.

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China central bank chief

BEIJING, China - People's Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan speaks during a press conference in Beijing on March 12, 2012.

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Japan picks Olympic marathon team

OKAYAMA, Japan - Risa Shigemoto holds a press conference in Okayama, western Japan, on March 12, 2012, after Japan named her and five other athletes to its marathon team for the London Olympics.

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Egyptian museum in Giza

CAIRO, Egypt - Antiquities Minister Mohamed Ibrahim Ali speaks during a groundbreaking ceremony for the Great Egyptian Museum in the suburbs of Giza, Egypt, on March 12, 2012. The museum is scheduled to be completed in 2015.

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China central bank chief

BEIJING, China - People's Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan speaks during a press conference in Beijing on March 12, 2012.

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Japan picks Olympic marathon team

TOKYO, Japan - Arata Fujiwara holds a press conference in Tokyo on March 12, 2012, after Japan named him and five other athletes to its marathon team for the London Olympics.

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Japan picks Olympic marathon team

OSAKA, Japan - Ryoko Kizaki holds a press conference in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, on March 12, 2012, after Japan named her and five other athletes to its marathon team for the London Olympics.

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Japan picks Olympic marathon team

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshimi Ozaki holds a press conference in Tokyo on March 12, 2012, after Japan named her and five other athletes to its marathon team for the London Olympics.

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Lawsuit seeking to halt Genkai plant

SAGA, Japan - Plaintiffs head to the Saga District Court in Saga Prefecture on March 12, 2012. A pending lawsuit seeking to shut down Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Genkai nuclear power plant was joined by another 1,370 people that day, bringing the total number of plaintiffs to roughly 3,000, the largest among suits against nuclear power plants, according to lawyers.

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Japan picks Olympic marathon team

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Kentaro Nakamoto holds a press conference in Kitakyushu, southwestern Japan, on March 12, 2012, after Japan named him and five other athletes to its marathon team for the London Olympics.

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Renewable energy projects in Mongolia

TOKYO, Japan - Softbank Corp. President Masayoshi Son (2nd from R) holds signed documents in Tokyo on March 12, 2012, after the company agreed to form a research firm in Mongolia in April 2012 with Mongolian investment firm Newcom Group to promote wind and solar power generation projects in the country. The new firm, Clean Energy Asia LLC., will select sites for wind and solar power projects in the Gobi desert and conduct feasibility studies for the projects. Mongolian Prime Minister Sukhbaatar Batbold (2nd from L) attended the document signing.

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China central bank chief

BEIJING, China - People's Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan speaks during a press conference in Beijing on March 12, 2012.