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Antinuclear activity in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken April 25, 2014, shows Misao Redwolf (holding microphone), an illustrator whose real name is undisclosed, at a rally against nuclear power generation in front of the prime minister's office in Tokyo. Redwolf is one of the organizers of the antinuclear rallies which have been held on Friday nights near the premier's office and the Diet building since March 2012, a year after the outbreak on March 11, 2011, of the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in the aftermath of the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami.

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Antinuclear activity in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken April 25, 2014, shows Misao Redwolf, an illustrator whose real name is undisclosed, at a rally against nuclear power generation in front of the prime minister's office in Tokyo. Redwolf is one of the organizers of the antinuclear rallies which have been held on Friday nights near the premier's office and the Diet building since March 2012, a year after the outbreak on March 11, 2011, of the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in the aftermath of the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami.

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Bo Xilai

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Bo Xilai, then Communist Party chief of Chongqing, during a plenary session of the National People's Congress in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in March 2012. Bo, who later in 2012 was expelled from the Communist Party in China's biggest political scandal in decades, was charged in court on July 25, 2013 with bribery, embezzlement and power abuse, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

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Bo Xilai

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Bo Xilai, then Communist Party chief of Chongqing, during a plenary session of the National People's Congress in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in March 2012. Bo, who later in 2012 was expelled from the Communist Party in China's biggest political scandal in decades, was charged in court on July 25, 2013 with bribery, embezzlement and power abuse, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

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Court rules Dec. election invalid over vote disparity

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Tetsuya Kanao, one of the lawyers who filed a lawsuit claiming the general election held in December 2012 was invalid due to significant disparities in the weight of votes, holds a press conference in Hiroshima on March 25, 2013, after the local high court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs. The Hiroshima High Court ruled the same day that the results of the election in Hiroshima's No. 1 and 2 districts were invalid, becoming the first court in Japan to declare an election result void amid a series of lawsuits over disparities in the weight of votes.

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9/11 group gives monument to Japanese city

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 25, 2012, in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, shows a monument (front) in the shape of a crane, with a wing span of 80 centimeters, made from debris of the World Trade Center, which collapsed in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. An association of bereaved families of victims of the attacks donated the monument the same day to the city as a symbol of its recovery efforts from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan.

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Taiwan demonstration on Senkakus

TAIPEI, Taiwan - A pro-unification group stages a march in Taipei on Oct. 25, 2012, to call for Taiwan to team up with China to "reclaim" a cluster of Japanese-controlled islands in the East China Sea, known as the Tiaoyutai Islands in Taiwan and the Senkaku Islands in Japan.

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1 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show Sendai port in Miyagi Prefecture on March 25, 2011 (top), after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami, and about one and a half years later on Sept. 4, 2012 (bottom).

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Samba carnival in Asakusa

TOKYO, Japan - Women dance a samba during the Asakusa Samba Carnival in Tokyo's Taito Ward on Aug. 25, 2012. Tokyo Sky Tree tower is visible in the background. The annual samba carnival was cancelled the previous year due to the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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Samba carnival in Asakusa

TOKYO, Japan - Women dance a samba during the Asakusa Samba Carnival in Tokyo's Taito Ward on Aug. 25, 2012. Tokyo Sky Tree tower is visible in the background. The annual samba carnival was cancelled the previous year due to the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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Samba carnival in Asakusa

TOKYO, Japan - Women dance a samba during the Asakusa Samba Carnival in Tokyo's Taito Ward on Aug. 25, 2012. The Kaminari gate of Sensoji temple can be seen in the background to the left. The annual samba carnival was cancelled the previous year due to the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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Anti-Japan protest in China's Shandong Province

RIZHAO, China - Chinese march during an anti-Japan demonstration in Rizhao, Shandong Province, on Aug. 25, 2012. The rally was held to assert China's sovereignty over a chain of Japanese-controlled islands in the East China Sea known in Japan as the Senkakus and in China as Diaoyu.

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Oi plant's No. 4 reactor starts capacity operation

OBAMA, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the No. 4 reactor building (right) at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture, on July 25, 2012. The reactor, which is the second to go back online after all of Japan's commercial reactors were taken offline for regular checks in the wake of the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident, started full-capacity power generation early on July 25 to ease electricity shortages in western Japan. The building housing the No. 3 reactor, the first to resume operation, is seen to the left.

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Oi plant's No. 4 reactor starts capacity operation

OBAMA, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the No. 4 reactor building (front) at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture, on July 25, 2012. The reactor, which is the second to go back online after all of Japan's commercial reactors were taken offline for regular checks in the wake of the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident, started full-capacity power generation early on July 25 to ease electricity shortages in western Japan. The building housing the No. 3 reactor, the first to resume operation, is seen in the back.

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Hotel worker from tsunami-hit Japan city runs with Olympic torch

MORLEY, Britain - Sadaharu Mishina (C) runs with the Olympic torch in Morley, a town near Leeds in England, on June 25, 2012, as an official torchbearer ahead of the upcoming London Olympics. Mishina is a hotel worker from Sendai, a Japanese city hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Fukushima seafood on trial sale

SOMA, Japan - A man picks up a pack of octopus at a supermarket in Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, on June 25, 2012. Octopus and whelks caught off the coast of Fukushima went on trial sale the same day at supermarkets and retail stores in the city in the northeastern Japan prefecture, the first Fukushima seafood sold since the nation's worst nuclear plant crisis was triggered in March 2011.

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Fukushima seafood on trial sale

SOMA, Japan - A retailer examines octopus in Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, on June 25, 2012. Octopus and whelks caught off the coast of Fukushima went on trial sale the same day at supermarkets and retail stores in the city in the northeastern Japan prefecture, the first Fukushima seafood sold since the nation's worst nuclear plant crisis was triggered in March 2011.

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School trip to disaster-hit Fukushima

AIZUWAKAMATSU, Japan - Junior high school students on a school excursion pose for photos in front of Tsurugajo, a castle in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, on May 25, 2012. School excursions are gradually returning to Aizuwakamatsu, a historic city severely affected by the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster and the ensuing nuclear crisis, according to local officials.

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Disaster area kids invited for cruise

IWAKI, Japan - Nursery school children in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, feed seagulls aboard a sightseeing ship in the sea off the city on April 25, 2012. They were invited on a tour on the day that the vessel, which operates from a port in the city, resumed regular cruises for the first time since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Seeds derived from those taken to space station go to disaster area

MORIOKA, Japan - An official (L) of the city government of Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, delivers pumpkin seeds to the Iwate Prefecture education board at the Iwate prefectural hall in Morioka on April 25, 2012, accompanied by a message from former astronaut Naoko Yamazaki, a Matsudo native. The seeds, which are derived from pumpkin seeds taken to the International Space Station by Yamazaki aboard the space shuttle Discovery, were delivered with the aim of instilling hope in children affected by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Mexico

LEON, Mexico - People pray on March 25, 2012 at an open-air Mass which Pope Benedict XVI held near Leon, central Mexico. The pope arrived in Mexico on March 23 for a four-day visit to the country.

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Pope Benedict XVI in Mexico

LEON, Mexico - Pope Benedict XVI holds an outdoor mass in a park near Leon, central Mexico, on March 25, 2012.

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Nishikori to play Nadal

MIAMI, United States - Kei Nishikori of Japan acknowledges the crowd after defeating Lukas Rosol of Czech Republic 6-4, 6-2 in the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami, Florida, on March 25, 2012. Nishikori will play world No. 2 Rafael Nadal of Spain in the last 16 of the tournament.

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Kagawa ties Japan scoring record in Europe

COLOGNE, Germany - Shinji Kagawa (L) of Borussia Dortmund keeps his eye on the ball during the second half of a Bundesliga game against Cologne away on March 25, 2012. The Japanese midfielder struck twice in the second half, giving him 11 goals for the season, a total that matched the record for goals by a Japanese player in a single European first-division season. Borussia Dortmund won the game 6-1.

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Darvish after intrasquad game

SURPRISE, United States - Texas Rangers pitcher Yu Darvish holds a press conference after starting an intrasquad game in Surprise, Arizona, on March 25, 2012. He suffered four runs on six hits in five innings, but struck out 11.

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Darvish in intrasquad game

SURPRISE, United States - Texas Rangers pitcher Yu Darvish starts an intrasquad game in Surprise, Arizona, on March 25, 2012. Darvish allowed four runs on six hits in five innings, but struck out 11.

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Darvish in intrasquad game

SURPRISE, United States - Texas Rangers pitcher Yu Darvish starts an intrasquad game in Surprise, Arizona, on March 25, 2012. Darvish allowed four runs on six hits in five innings, but struck out 11.

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AKB48's Maeda calls it quits

TOKYO, Japan - A tearful Atsuko Maeda (C), member of the all-girl pop group AKB48, is surrounded by other group members during a concert in Saitama, near Tokyo, on March 25, 2012, after she abruptly announced on stage her decision to leave the band.

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Senegal's presidential election

DAKAR, Senegal - Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade (C) is at a polling station in Dakar, the country's capital, to cast his vote in the presidential runoff election on March 25, 2012. Wade, 85, who sought a third term in office despite a constitutional ban on doing so, lost the runoff to former Prime Minister Macky Sall, 50.

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Senegal's presidential election

DAKAR, Senegal - Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade holds up a ballot paper at a polling station in Dakar, the country's capital, during the presidential runoff election on March 25, 2012. Wade, 85, who sought a third term in office despite a constitutional ban on doing so, lost the runoff to former Prime Minister Macky Sall, 50.

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Comedian Neko to represent Cambodia at Olympic marathon

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 5, 2012, in Oita, southwestern Japan, shows comedian Hiroshi Neko. Neko, who was born in Japan's Chiba Prefecture and obtained Cambodian citizenship in October 2011 so he could have a shot at running in this summer's London Olympics, will represent Cambodia in the men's marathon in the event, the secretary general of Cambodia's Olympic committee said March 25, 2012.

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U.S., S. Korean presidents

SEOUL, South Korea - U.S. President Barack Obama (L) and his South Korean counterpart Lee Myung Bak hold a joint press conference following their talks at the Blue House presidential office in Seoul on March 25, 2012. (Pool photo)

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U.S., S. Korean presidents

SEOUL, South Korea - U.S. President Barack Obama (L) and his South Korean counterpart Lee Myung Bak shake hands after a joint press conference at the Blue House presidential office in Seoul on March 25, 2012. (Pool photo)

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Obama in Seoul

SEOUL, South Korea - U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at a joint press conference with his South Korean counterpart Lee Myung Bak following their talks at the Blue House presidential office in Seoul on March 25, 2012. (Pool photo)

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Hakuho wins 22nd career title at spring sumo

SAKAI, Japan - Mongolian yokozuna Hakuho holds sea bream, fish considered auspicious in Japan, at a party held at a hotel in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on March 25, 2012, to celebrate his winning the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament -- his 22nd career title -- the same day.

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Hakuho wins 22nd career title at spring sumo

OSAKA, Japan - Mongolian yokozuna Hakuho, holding his trophy, and his fans pose for group photos after Hakuho won the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament -- his 22nd career title -- at Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium on March 25, 2012.

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H.K. leadership race

HONG KONG, China - Leung Chun-ying holds a press conference in Hong Kong on March 25, 2012, after winning Hong Kong's leadership election the same day. Leung, a surveyor by profession, will replace current Chief Executive Donald Tsang, whose term ends June 30.

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H.K. leadership race

HONG KONG, China - Photo taken March 25, 2012, shows Leung Chun-ying (L) and his wife Regina Tong Ching-yi, after Leung won Hong Kong's leadership election the same day. Leung, a surveyor by profession, will replace current Chief Executive Donald Tsang, whose term ends June 30.

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Google ordered to suspend autocomplete search function

TOKYO, Japan - Lawyer Hiroyuki Tomita speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on March 25, 2012, about a petition filed by his client and approved by the Tokyo District Court demanding Internet giant Google Inc. suspend its autocomplete search function, which the client says violated his privacy. The court's March 19 decision is believed to be the first in a case where a court has ordered the suspension of the function that suggests words before a user completes typing a word or a phrase, Tomita said.

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U.S., S. Korean presidents

SEOUL, South Korea - U.S. President Barack Obama (L) and his South Korean counterpart Lee Myung Bak hold talks at the Blue House presidential office in Seoul on March 25, 2012.

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U.S., S. Korean presidents

SEOUL, South Korea - U.S. President Barack Obama (L) and his South Korean counterpart Lee Myung Bak shake hands ahead of their talks at the Blue House presidential office in Seoul on March 25, 2012.

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H.K. leadership race

HONG KONG, China - Leung Chun-ying (R) and Henry Tang, candidates in Hong Kong's leadership election, shake hands in Hong Kong on March 25, 2012, after Leung won the election. Leung, a surveyor by profession, will replace current Chief Executive Donald Tsang, whose term ends June 30.

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100th day since Kim Jong Il's death

PYONGYANG, North Korea - People offer flowers in front of a portrait of former North Korean leader Kim Jong Il at Pyongyang Gymnasium in Pyongyang on March 25, 2012, the 100th day since his death.

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Senegal's presidential election

DAKAR, Senegal - A poster of Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade is defaced with black ink in the country's capital of Dakar on March 25, 2012, the day of a presidential runoff election. The 85-year-old president sought a third term in office despite a constitutional ban on doing so. He lost the runoff to former Prime Minister Macky Sall, 50.

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100th day since Kim Jong Il's death

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Photo taken March 25, 2012, shows propaganda paintings in Pyongyang, North Korea. The day marked the 100th day since the death of the country's former leader Kim Jong Il.

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Senegal's presidential election

DAKAR, Senegal - Voting is under way at a polling station in Dakar, the capital of Senegal, in the presidential runoff election on March 25, 2012. Incumbent President Abdoulaye Wade, 85, who sought a third term in office despite a constitutional ban on doing so, lost the runoff to former Prime Minister Macky Sall, 50.

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Hakuho wins 22nd career title at spring sumo

OSAKA, Japan - Mongolian yokozuna Hakuho (R) defeats sekiwake Kakuryu in a playoff to win the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament -- his 22nd career title -- at Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium on March 25, 2012.

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100th day since Kim Jong Il's death

PYONGYANG, North Korea - A North Korean soldier is on guard on March 25, 2012, near Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square, where a memorial service was held the same day to mark the 100th day since the death of former leader Kim Jong Il -- and the end of the national period of mourning.

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100th day since Kim Jong Il's death

PYONGYANG, North Korea - An estimated 100,000 military officers and citizens observe a moment of silence during a memorial service held at Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square on March 25, 2012, the 100th day since the death of former leader Kim Jong Il, an event marking the end of the national period of mourning.

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100th day since Kim Jong Il's death

PYONGYANG, North Korea - An estimated 100,000 military officers and citizens attend a memorial service held at Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square on March 25, 2012, the 100th day since the death of former leader Kim Jong Il, an event marking the end of the national period of mourning.