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Japan gov't faces damages over Ghanaian man's death

TOKYO, Japan - A portrait of Abubakar Awudu Suraj is held by his widow who was heading for the Tokyo District Court on March 19, 2014. The court ordered the Japanese government to pay about 5 million yen in damages over the death of the Ghanaian man in 2010 while he was being deported from Narita airport near Tokyo. His Japanese wife requested that a photo of her face not be published.

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Enoshima

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on March 19, 2010, shows Enoshima, an island off Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo.

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Space probe Hayabusa capsule at tsunami-hit city

OFUNATO, Japan - Children view a capsule brought back to Earth by Japan's Hayabusa unmanned space probe in 2010 at an exhibition in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, on Jan. 19, 2012. The exhibition featuring the capsule and other items from Hayabusa began that day in a bid to lift residents' spirits as the city tries to recover from the March 11 tsunami.

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Space probe Hayabusa capsule at tsunami-hit city

OFUNATO, Japan - Children view a capsule brought back to Earth by Japan's Hayabusa unmanned space probe in 2010 at an exhibition in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, on Jan. 19, 2012. The exhibition featuring the capsule and other items from Hayabusa began that day in a bid to lift residents' spirits as the city tries to recover from the March 11 tsunami.

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Taiwan president promises peace, 'golden decade'

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou speaks during a news conference at the Presidential Office in Taipei on March 19, 2010, marking his second anniversary in office. Ma promised to deliver a ''golden decade'' of growing prosperity and to ''protect the country through peace.''

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Ikeda makes cut, Ishikawa out at Transitions Championship

PALM HARBOR, United States - Japan's Yuta Ikeda watches his bunker shot on the first hole during the second round of the Transitions Championship gold tournament at Innisbrook Resort in Palm Harbor, Florida, on March 19, 2010. Ikeda shot a 2-under 69 to move up 50 places and make the cut.

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Ikeda makes cut, Ishikawa out at Transitions Championship

PALM HARBOR, United States - Japan's Ryo Ishikawa waves to the gallery after holing out the second round of the Transitions Championship gold tournament at Innisbrook Resort in Palm Harbor, Florida, on March 19, 2010. Ishikawa failed to qualify for weekend play.

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Ikeda makes cut, Ishikawa out at Transitions Championship

PALM HARBOR, United States - Japan's Ryo Ishikawa hits from a bunker on the 12th hole during the second round of the Transitions Championship gold tournament at Innisbrook Resort in Palm Harbor, Florida, on March 19, 2010. Ishikawa failed to qualify for weekend play.

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Japan's Kano at 1st, Morii at 3rd in men's super-G sitting event

WHISTLER, Canada - (From L to R) Silver medalist Martin Braxenthaler of Germany, gold medalist Akira Kano, and bronze medalist Taiki Mori, both from Japan, celebrate on the podium during an awards ceremony for the men's super-G sitting event at the Vancouver Paralympic Games in Whistler, Canada, on March 19, 2010.

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Japan's Kano wins gold in men's super-G sitting event

WHISTLER, Canada - Japan's Akira Kano takes to the air during the men's super-G sitting event at the Vancouver Paralympic Games in Whistler, Canada, on March 19, 2010. Kano won the gold medal.

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Japan's Morii wins bronze in men's super-G sitting event

WHISTLER, Canada - Japan's Taiki Morii competes in the men's super-G sitting event at the Vancouver Paralympic Games in Whistler, Canada, on March 19, 2010. Morii won the bronze medal.

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Hatoyama wants China-Taiwan ties to grow for community concept

TOKYO, Japan - Wang Yi (L), head of the Chinese government's Taiwan Affairs Office, and Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama shake hands at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on March 19, 2010, before their talks.

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Japan's Kano at 1st, Morii at 3rd in men's super-G sitting event

WHISTLER, Canada - Japan's Akira Kano (L) and Taiki Morii hold up their gold and bronze medals, respectively, in the men's super-G sitting event at the Vancouver Paralympic Games in Whistler, Canada, on March 19, 2010.

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French Foreign Minister Kouchner talks with S. Korean Pres. Lee

SEOUL, South Korea - Visiting French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner (L) and South Korean President Lee Myung Bak shake hands at the presidential Blue House in Seoul on March 19, 2010, prior to their talks.

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Ex-envoy says papers on Japan-U.S. secret pacts possibly dumped

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuhiko Togo, the former chief of the Foreign Ministry's treaties bureau, talks to reporters in Tokyo on March 19, 2010, after speaking about so-called Japan-U.S. secret pacts as an unsworn witness during a session of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee. Togo told the panel that key documents related to the secret pacts may have been discarded before an administrative information disclosure law took effect in 2001.

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Mongolian ozeki Harumafuji unbeaten at spring sumo

OSAKA, Japan - Mongolian ozeki Harumafuji (R) forces his compatriot, fourth-ranked Tamawashi, out of the ring on the sixth day of the 15-day Spring Grand Sumo Tournament at Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium in Osaka on March 19, 2010. Harumafuji maintained his unbeaten record with the win.

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East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta visits Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta places 1,000 folded paper cranes at Children's Peace Monument in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on March 19, 2010. Ramos-Horta is in Japan from March 14 on a weeklong visit.

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Mongolian yokozuna Hakuho beats Russian maegashira Aran

OSAKA, Japan - Mongolian yokozuna (grand champion) Hakuho (L) pushes Russian No. 2 maegashira Aran out of the ring on the sixth day of the 15-day Spring Grand Sumo Tournament at Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium in Osaka on March 19, 2010, remaining unbeaten.

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Baruto flexes muscles to keep promotion in sights

OSAKA, Japan - Estonian sekiwake Baruto sends sekiwake Toyonoshima to the ground on the sixth day of the 15-day Spring Grand Sumo Tournament at Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium in Osaka on March 19, 2010. The win helped Baruto preserve his unbeaten record and kept him tied for the lead with grand champion Hakuho, ozeki Harumafuji and No. 13 maegashira Tokitenku.

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Papers on Japan-U.S. secret pacts may have been dumped

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada speaks at a news conference at the ministry in Tokyo on March 19, 2010, after Kazuhiko Togo, the former chief of the ministry's treaties bureau, told the Diet that key documents related to so-called Japan-U.S. secret pacts may have been discarded before an administrative information disclosure law took effect in 2001.

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Japanese parliament probes secret pacts

TOKYO, Japan - Kunihiko Saito, a former vice foreign minister, speaks about secret pacts reached by Japan and the United States as an unsworn witness during a session of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee on March 19, 2010. The retired top bureaucrat of the ministry denied he had been briefed on the matter by his predecessor.

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Colonel Sanders 'returns' to work

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - A Colonel Sanders statue forms part of a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark its return to work for the first time in 25 years at a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet in Nishinomiya in Hyogo Prefecture on March 19, 2010. The life-size statue of the KFC founder, which went missing in 1985 after baseball fans tossed it into a river, was recovered in 2009 during construction work.

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Japanese parliament probes secret pacts

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuhiko Togo, a former chief of the old Treaties Bureau of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, speaks about secret pacts reached by Japan and the United States as an unsworn witness during a session of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee on March 19, 2010. Togo said some documents on the accords may have been discarded.

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Japanese parliament probes secret pacts

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuhiko Togo, a former chief of the old Treaties Bureau of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, speaks about secret pacts reached by Japan and the United States during a session of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee on March 19, 2010. Sitting behind Togo are (from L) former lower house member Hajime Morita, former Mainichi Shimbun reporter Takichi Nishiyama and former vice foreign minister Kunihiko Saito.

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Ex-Mainichi reporter Nishiyama speaks at lower house panel

TOKYO, Japan - Former Mainichi Shimbun reporter Takichi Nishiyama speaks as an unsworn witness during a session of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee on March 19, 2010. The panel was held to investigate the so-called Japan-U.S. secret pacts and summoned Nishiyama, who was convicted of instigating a leak of state secrets after writing an article in 1971 that suggested the existence of one of the pacts, and three others.

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Tokyo chef serves tuna sushi

TOKYO, Japan - A chef at a sushi bar near Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market holds up a dish of hand-rolled tuna sushi on March 19, 2010. A proposal to ban international trade in bluefin tuna from the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea had been voted down at a U.N. conference in Doha. Japan was relieved by the vote as it is the biggest consumer of the tuna.

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Japan new recruits at full stretch

TOKYO, Japan - Fresh recruits at Japanese retailer Seven & I Holdings Co. participate in a stretching session during a welcome event in Tokyo on March 19, 2010, held prior to April 1, the start of the 2010 business year at most companies in Japan. The retailer hired 736 fresh recruits, 530 fewer than the previous year, amid the economic slump.

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Tourist enjoys Tokyo tuna sushi

TOKYO, Japan - A tourist eats tuna sushi near Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market on March 19, 2010, the day after a proposal to ban international trade in bluefin tuna from the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea had been voted down at a U.N. conference in Doha.

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30,000 dolls displayed in Tokushima ahead of Doll's Festival

KATSUURA, Japan - About 30,000 'hina dolls' are displayed in Katsuura, Tokushima Prefecture, on Feb. 19, 2010 ahead of the Doll's Festival in Japan on March 3.