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Film director Ando discusses work based in Kochi

KOCHI, Japan - Movie director Momoko Ando, a daughter of actor Eiji Okuda, discusses her work based in Kochi, western Japan, during an interview in the city on the island of Shikoku on Nov. 14, 2014. Ando relocated to Kochi from Tokyo in March.

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Olympic figure skating bronze medalist Takahashi to retire

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Japanese figure skater Daisuke Takahashi after winning the World Figure Skating Championships in Torino, Italy, in March 2010. Takahashi, 28, who won the bronze medal in the Vancouver Olympics in February 2010, has decided to retire, sources familiar with the matter said Oct. 14, 2014.

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New bullet train station in Niigata Pref.

NIIGATA, Japan - Joetsu-myoko station in Joetsu, Niigata Prefecture, northeastern Japan, shown in this photo taken on Aug. 17, 2014, is one of the new station built for the Hokuriku Shinkansen bullet train line to be operated from March 14, 2015.

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Plarail diorama on Shinkansen bullet train

FUKUOKA, Japan - Invited nursery school children play with Tomy Co.'s Plarail railroad toys placed on a special Shinkansen bullet train on July 14, 2014, between Hiroshima and Okayama stations. The train will be operated from July 19, 2014, through March 2015 between Shin-Osaka and Hakata stations, one round trip a day.

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Plarail diorama on Shinkansen bullet train

FUKUOKA, Japan - Invited nursery school children look at a Plarail railroad toy diorama displayed on a special Shinkansen bullet train on July 14, 2014, between Hiroshima and Okayama stations. The train will be operated from July 19, 2014, through March 2015 between Shin-Osaka and Hakata stations, one round trip a day.

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World Heritage site Himeji Castle reappears after repair

KOBE, Japan - The main keep of Himeji Castle, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, is photographed from a Kyodo News helicopter on June 14, 2014. The castle, under repair since October 2009, is scheduled to reopen in March 2015.

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Photographer reveals reality on Fukushima farm

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken March 14, 2014 shows Tadao Mitome, a photographer who published a photo book titled "3/11 Fukushima: Hibaku no Bokujo (Stock Farm Exposed to Radiation)," documenting a farm in Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, and dying horses there.

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Sony expects 50 bil. yen group net loss in FY 2014 on restructuring

TOKYO, Japan - Kenichiro Yoshida, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Sony Corp., briefs reporters on his company's group earnings forecast at a press conference in Tokyo on May 14, 2014. Sony expects to remain in the red in the year ending March 2015 with a group net loss of 50 billion yen due to restructuring costs including expenses related to the sale of its personal computer business.

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Sony expects 50 bil. yen group net loss in FY 2014 on restructuring

TOKYO, Japan - Kenichiro Yoshida, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Sony Corp., briefs reporters on his company's group earnings forecast at a press conference in Tokyo on May 14, 2014. Sony expects to remain in the red in the year ending March 2015 with a group net loss of 50 billion yen due to restructuring costs including expenses related to the sale of its personal computer business.

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U.S. envoy Kennedy visits nuclear plant in Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (C) and her son Jack Schlossberg (R) wearing protective suits and masks are briefed during their visit to the central control room for the Nos. 1 and 2 reactors at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on May 14, 2014. The plant was devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Pool photo by Sankei Shimbun)

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Modern ukiyo-e artist refreshes old masters' works

KYOTO, Japan - Photo taken March 14, 2014 in Kyoto shows one of ukiyo-e artist Inuki Tachihara's reproductions of the seven-part series "Oatari Kyogen" (Smash Hit Farces) by Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865). Titled "Kan Shojo" -- the nickname of Sugawara no Michizane (845-903), the work uses a bright shade of red to represent anger. (Photo by Tatsuya Hagiwara)

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Strawberry curry served in Miyagi Pref., Japan

SENDAI, Japan - "Strawberry curry" is served with rice at a cafe inside a strawberry farm in Yamamoto, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on March 14, 2014.

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Strawberry curry served in Miyagi Pref., Japan

SENDAI, Japan - "Strawberry curry" is served with rice at a cafe inside a strawberry farm in Yamamoto, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on March 14, 2014.

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Paper rice bags made into eco-friendly bags

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Bags made of waste paper rice bags for environmental contribution are displayed in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, on March 14, 2014.

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'Phantom bridge' in Hokkaido

KUSHIRO, Japan - Photo taken March 14, 2014 shows participants in a tour to Taushubetsu Bridge, an aging structure now surrounded by water in man-made Lake Nukabira in Kamishihoro, Hokkaido. Nicknamed the "phantom bridge," it is completely submerged around June and is only seen for a few months in wintertime.

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Land prices in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on March 14, 2014, shows a bay area in Tokyo, where residential land prices have risen ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

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Oscar Pistorius trial

PRETORIA, South Africa - South African Olympian and Paralympian sprinter Oscar Pistorius is pictured during his trial at a court in Pretoria on March 14, 2014. Pistorius is charged with killing his girlfriend. (Pool photo)

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Myanmar's transition to democracy remains fragile: U.N. envoy

GENEVA, Switzerland - Tomas Ojea Quintana, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, speaks at a press conference at the United Nations Office in Geneva, Switzerland, on March 14, 2014.

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U.S. envoy on N. Korea human rights meets press

WASHINGTON, United States - Robert King, U.S. special envoy for North Korean human rights issues, speaks at a press conference in Washington on March 14, 2014. King suggested it would be difficult to take up North Korea human rights issues as a formal agenda item at the U.N. Security Council due to other pressing matters such as the situation in Ukraine.

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Japan's Suzuki wins men's slalom sitting in Paralympics

SOCHI, Russia - Takeshi Suzuki of Japan holds up his gold medal during the medal ceremony for the alpine skiing men's slalom sitting event at the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, on March 14, 2014.

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Japan's Suzuki wins men's slalom sitting in Paralympics

SOCHI, Russia - Takeshi Suzuki of Japan holds up his gold medal during the medal ceremony for the alpine skiing men's slalom sitting event at the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, on March 14, 2014.

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Vietnamese president

HANOI, Vietnam - Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang speaks in an interview at the presidential office in Hanoi on March 14, 2014, ahead of his state visit to Japan beginning March 16.

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Japan's Suzuki wins men's slalom sitting in Paralympics

SOCHI, Russia - Takeshi Suzuki of Japan holds up his gold medal during the medal ceremony for the alpine skiing men's slalom sitting event at the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, on March 14, 2014.

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Vietnamese president

HANOI, Vietnam - Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang speaks in an interview at the presidential office in Hanoi on March 14, 2014, ahead of his state visit to Japan beginning March 16.

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Riken admits malpractice in STAP papers

TOKYO, Japan - Ryoji Noyori (2nd from R), Nobel Prize laureate and president of the government-affiliated Riken institute, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on March 14, 2014, to provide an interim report on the institute's investigation into allegations concerning two recent papers on potentially groundbreaking stem cell research. Riken admitted that the papers on so-called STAP cells show aspects of serious malpractice.

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Missing of Malaysian jet

BEIJING, China - Photo taken March 14, 2014, in Beijing, shows relatives of one of the passengers aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which disappeared on March 8 over the South China Sea while enroute to the Chinese capital from Kuala Lumpur International Airport.

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Leica Camera's shop in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - A "Maiko" apprentice geisha examines a Leica camera at the German camera maker's store in Kyoto, its seventh directly managed shop in Japan, on March 14, 2014, ahead of the store's official opening the following day. The Leica Kyoto shop is a two-story "machiya" traditional house, originally built some 100 years ago.

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Riken admits malpractice in STAP papers

TOKYO, Japan - Ryoji Noyori (2nd from R), Nobel Prize laureate and president of the government-affiliated Riken institute, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on March 14, 2014, to provide an interim report on the institute's investigation into allegations concerning two recent papers on potentially groundbreaking stem cell research. Riken admitted that the papers on so-called STAP cells show aspects of serious malpractice.

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Riken admits malpractice in STAP papers

TOKYO, Japan - Officials of the government-affiliated Riken institute explain images shown on a display during a press conference in Tokyo on March 14, 2014, to provide an interim report on the institute's investigation into allegations concerning two recent papers on potentially groundbreaking stem cell research. Riken admitted that the papers on so-called STAP cells show aspects of serious malpractice.

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Riken admits malpractice in STAP papers

TOKYO, Japan - Ryoji Noyori, Nobel Prize laureate and president of the government-affiliated Riken institute, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on March 14, 2014, to provide an interim report on the institute's investigation into allegations concerning two recent papers on potentially groundbreaking stem cell research. Riken admitted that the papers on so-called STAP cells show aspects of serious malpractice.

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Riken admits malpractice in STAP papers

TOKYO, Japan - Officials of the government-affiliated Riken institute explain images shown on a display during a press conference in Tokyo on March 14, 2014, to provide an interim report on the institute's investigation into allegations concerning two recent papers on potentially groundbreaking stem cell research. Riken admitted that the papers on so-called STAP cells show aspects of serious malpractice.

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Riken admits malpractice in STAP papers

TOKYO, Japan - Ryoji Noyori (2nd from R), Nobel Prize laureate and president of the government-affiliated Riken institute, and other institute officials apologize during a press conference in Tokyo on March 14, 2014, to provide an interim report on the institute's investigation into allegations concerning two recent papers on potentially groundbreaking stem cell research. Riken admitted that the papers on so-called STAP cells show aspects of serious malpractice.

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Riken admits malpractice in STAP papers

TOKYO, Japan - Ryoji Noyori, Nobel Prize laureate and president of the government-affiliated Riken institute, listens to a reporter's question at a press conference in Tokyo on March 14, 2014, to provide an interim report on the institute's investigation into allegations concerning two recent papers on potentially groundbreaking stem cell research. Riken admitted that the papers on so-called STAP cells show aspects of serious malpractice.

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CORRECTED Allegations over stem cell papers

TOKYO, Japan - CORRECTING NAME OF INSTITUTE LED BY NOYORI Ryoji Noyori (2nd from R), president of the government-affiliated Riken institute, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on March 14, 2014, to provide an interim report on the institute's investigation into allegations concerning two recent papers on potentially groundbreaking stem cell research. Haruko Obokata of the institute and other researchers said in the papers they have found a simple way to produce STAP cells, which are named for stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency.

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Search for Malaysia Airlines plane

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - A P-3C patrol plane of Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force arrives at an air base near Kuala Lumpur on March 14, 2014, to join international efforts to search for the Malaysia Airlines passenger plane missing since March 8.

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Quake in western Japan

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Municipal officials examine the A-Bomb Dome in Hiroshima City after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 struck a swath of western Japan in the early morning of March 14, 2014.

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Penguins in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - Photo shows Cape penguins at Kyoto Aquarium in the city of Kyoto on March 14, 2014. They were named after streets in the city. The penguin in the front was named "Tera" after the Teramachidori avenue in the ancient Japanese capital.

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Quake in western Japan

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Municipal officials examine the A-Bomb Dome in Hiroshima City after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 struck a swath of western Japan in the early morning of March 14, 2014.

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Quake in western Japan

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Rocks lie scattered on a road in Seiyo, Ehime Prefecture, after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 struck a swath of western Japan in the early morning of March 14, 2014.

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Quake in western Japan

HIROSHIMA, Japan - An expressway is blocked in Hiroshima City after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 struck a swath of western Japan in the early morning of March 14, 2014.

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Quake in western Japan

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Rocks lie scattered on a road in Seiyo, Ehime Prefecture, after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 struck a swath of western Japan in the early morning of March 14, 2014.

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Quake in western Japan

HIROSHIMA, Japan - The wall of a building lies partially collapsed in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 struck a swath of western Japan in the early morning of March 14, 2014.

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Quake in western Japan

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Fragments of a wall lie scattered on a sidewalk in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 struck a swath of western Japan in the early morning of March 14, 2014.

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3 years since quake-tsunami disasters

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - People offer prayers for the victims of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 14, 2014, its third anniversary.

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3 years after quake-tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Photos show an area of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on April 14, 2011 (top), about a month after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and on March 3, 2014 (bottom).

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3 years after quake-tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Panoramic photos show an area of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on April 14, 2011 (top), about a month after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and on March 3, 2014 (bottom).

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3 years after quake-tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Panoramic photos show the Shishiori area of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, (from top) on March 15, 2011, four days after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, on Aug. 30, 2012, and on Feb. 14, 2014.

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3 years after quake-tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Photos show Nobiru Station on the JR Senseki Line in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 14, 2011 (L), three days after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and on March 3, 2014 (R).

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3 years after quake-tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Photos show an area straddling Higashimatsushima and Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture on March 14, 2011 (top), three days after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and on March 3, 2014 (bottom).

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Disaster-hit building in Minamisanriku, Japan

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - The skeletal structure of what used to be a local government building in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, remains deserted on Feb. 14, 2014. Forty-three people, mostly town officials, died at the building in the March 2011 tsunami. The structure was set to be demolished initially but its preservation as a reminder of the disaster is being discussed by experts at the request of the prefectural governor.