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Nintendo incurs 46 bil. yen operating loss in FY 2013

OSAKA, Japan - Satoru Iwata, president of Nintendo Co., speaks about his company's earnings report for fiscal 2013 at a press conference in Osaka on May 7, 2014. Nintendo incurred a group operating loss of 46.43 billion yen in the fiscal year that ended in March due mainly to sluggish sales of its Wii U home video game console and software.

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Nintendo incurs 46 bil. yen operating loss in FY 2013

OSAKA, Japan - Satoru Iwata, president of Nintendo Co., speaks about his company's earnings report for fiscal 2013 at a press conference in Osaka on May 7, 2014. Nintendo incurred a group operating loss of 46.43 billion yen in the fiscal year that ended in March due mainly to sluggish sales of its Wii U home video game console and software.

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Japan's research whaling

SHIMONOSEKI, Japan - Japanese research whaling ship the Yushin Maru No. 2 leaves Shimonoseki port in Yamaguchi Prefecture on Dec. 7, 2013. Two Japanese whaling ships and a surveillance ship left the port the same day to join the mother vessel Nisshin Maru and hunt up to 935 Antarctic minke whales and up to 50 fin whales through March.

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Japan's research whaling

SHIMONOSEKI, Japan - Japanese research whaling ship the Yushin Maru leaves Shimonoseki port in Yamaguchi Prefecture on Dec. 7, 2013. Two Japanese whaling ships and a surveillance ship left the port the same day to join the mother vessel Nisshin Maru and hunt up to 935 Antarctic minke whales and up to 50 fin whales through March.

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Protests in Thailand

BANGKOK, Thailand - Opponents of ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra march to the parliament building in Bangkok protesting an amnesty bill on Aug. 7, 2013. Antigovernment groups and opposition groups have criticized the measure, which could help Thaksin to return home without facing punishment.

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Crown prince plays viola at concert

TOKYO, Japan - Crown Prince Naruhito shows a viola bearing a picture of the "miracle pine" at a concert performed by the Gakushuin OB orchestra at Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space in Tokyo on July 7, 2013. The wood for the viola came from driftwood left in areas of northeastern Japan that were ravaged by the March 2011 tsunami, as well as the "miracle pine," the only tree to survive from a forest of pines swept away by the tsunami. (Pool photo)

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Crown prince plays viola at concert

TOKYO, Japan - Crown Prince Naruhito plays a viola made of driftwood during a concert performed by the Gakushuin OB orchestra at Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space in Tokyo on July 7, 2013. The wood for the viola came from debris left in areas of northeastern Japan that were ravaged by the March 2011 tsunami, as well as the "miracle pine," the only tree to survive from a forest of pines swept away by the tsunami. (Pool photo)

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Young returnees to Tohoku aiding post-earthquake recovery

MORIOKA, Japan - Photo taken June 7, 2013 shows Mamoru Kondo (back L) and Mariko Takada talking with a resident at a temporary housing site in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture. Kondo and Takada are among a growing number of young people who are returning to their hometowns in the Tohoku region to support their recovery from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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California nuclear plant

TOKYO, Japan - A March 2011 file photo shows the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in southern California in the United States. Electric utility Southern California Edison announced on June 7, 2013, that two reactors at the plant taken offline in early 2012 due to faulty steam generators made by a Japanese manufacturer will be shut down for good.

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Ex-U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Armitage gives interview

WASHINGTON, United States - Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage speaks during an interview with Kyodo News on March 7, 2013 at his office in Arlington, Virginia.

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Heart-shaped camphor tree

OKAYAMA, Japan - Photo taken March 7, 2013, shows a camphor tree, which appears heart shaped from a certain angle, in Bizen, Okayama Prefecture. The tree was planted in 1926 by then Crown Prince Hirohito, posthumously known as Emperor Showa.

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Tibetan temple in China

BEIJING, China - Photo shows a police vehicle with surveillance cameras parked at a Tibetan Buddhist temple in Qinghai Province, China, on March 7, 2013.

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Tibetan temple in China

BEIJING, China - Photo shows a surveillance camera (top) installed at a Tibetan Buddhist temple in Qinghai Province, China, on March 7, 2013.

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Tibetan temple in China

BEIJING, China - Photo shows portraits of Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama displayed in a Tibetan Buddhist temple in Qinghai Province, China, on March 7, 2013.

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U.N. sanctions on N. Korea

NEW YORK, United States - South Korean Ambassador to the United Nations Kim Sook holds a press conference at the U.N. headquarters in New York on March 7, 2013, after the U.N. Security Council unanimously voted for tough new sanctions against North Korea for its third nuclear test in February 2013.

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U.N. sanctions on N. Korea

NEW YORK, United States - The U.N. Security Council unanimously votes for tough new sanctions against North Korea for its third nuclear test in February 2013, at the U.N. headquarters in New York on March 7, 2013.

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Restoring historic buildings

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in August 2012 shows an outlet of sake brewery Otokoyama Honten Co., which was damaged by the March 2011 tsunami, in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. The World Monuments Fund in New York said on March 7, 2013, that it will give $250,000 to rebuild seven historic buildings in Kesennuma, including the Okotoyama Honten store.

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U.N. votes for sanctions on N. Korea

NEW YORK, United States - Japanese Ambassador to the United Nations Tsuneo Nishida holds a press conference at the U.N. headquarters in New York on March 7, 2013, after the U.N. Security Council unanimously voted for tough new sanctions against North Korea for its third nuclear test in February 2013.

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U.N. sanctions on N. Korea

NEW YORK, United States - Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, holds a press conference at the U.N. headquarters in New York on March 7, 2013, after the U.N. Security Council unanimously voted for tough new sanctions against North Korea for its third nuclear test in February 2013.

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U.N. votes for sanctions on N. Korea

NEW YORK, United States - Chinese Ambassador to the United Nations Li Baodong holds a press conference at the U.N. headquarters in New York on March 7, 2013, after the U.N. Security Council unanimously voted for tough new sanctions against North Korea for its third nuclear test in February 2013.

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Osprey nighttime training

IWAKUNI, Japan - Two MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft leave the U.S. Marine Corps' Iwakuni Air Station in Yamaguchi Prefecture at 7:06 p.m. on March 7, 2013, in the U.S. military's first nighttime training flights of the aircraft over Japan's main islands.

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Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - A crowded streetcar leaves Pyongyang Station in North Korea on March 7, 2013.

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Slovene president in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Slovene President Borut Pahor is interviewed in Tokyo on March 7, 2013.

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Pyongyang scene

PYONGYANG, North Korea - North Koreans attend a rally in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square on March 7, 2013, in support of a statement issued by a spokesman of the Supreme Command of the Korean People's Army to scrap the armistice agreement that ended the 1950-1953 Korean War.

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China air pollution

BEIJING, China - A woman covers her face with goggles and a mask in Beijing on March 7, 2013, as air pollution blankets the Chinese capital. In the background is the Great Hall of the People.

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Osprey nighttime training

IWAKUNI, Japan - Two MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft leave the U.S. Marine Corps' Iwakuni Air Station in Yamaguchi Prefecture at 7:06 p.m. on March 7, 2013, in the U.S. military's first nighttime training flights of the aircraft over Japan's main islands.

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Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - A vehicle covered with a camouflage net for wartime use drives down a road in Pyongyang, North Korea, on March 7, 2013.

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IOC calls Tokyo's bid 'very impressive'

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Gov. Naoki Inose holds a press conference at a hotel in Tokyo on March 7, 2013, on Tokyo's bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympics. The International Olympic Committee's Evaluation Commission called Tokyo's bid proposal ''very impressive'' as it wrapped a four-day inspection of the Japanese capital the same day.

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IOC calls Tokyo's bid 'very impressive'

TOKYO, Japan - Craig Reedie, chair of the International Olympic Committee's Evaluation Commission, holds a press conference at a hotel in Tokyo on March 7, 2013. The commission called Tokyo's plan for hosting the 2020 Summer Olympics ''very impressive,'' as it wrapped a four-day inspection of the Japanese capital the same day.

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Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - During a rehearsal on March 7, 2013 for a public event, students line up in front of a signboard that praises North Korea's third nuclear test, hung at the Pyongyang Gymnasium in Pyongyang, North Korea.

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IOC calls Tokyo's bid 'very impressive'

TOKYO, Japan - Craig Reedie, chair of the International Olympic Committee's Evaluation Commission, holds a press conference at a hotel in Tokyo on March 7, 2013. The commission called Tokyo's plan for hosting the 2020 Summer Olympics ''very impressive,'' as it wrapped a four-day inspection of the Japanese capital the same day.

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Japanese conductor in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Michiyoshi Inoue, an award-winning Japanese conductor, is interviewed by Kyodo News at a hotel in Pyongyang on March 7, 2013, a day before his planned concert in the North Korean capital.

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IOC calls Tokyo's bid 'very impressive'

TOKYO, Japan - Craig Reedie, chair of the International Olympic Committee's Evaluation Commission, holds a press conference at a hotel in Tokyo on March 7, 2013. The commission called Tokyo's plan for hosting the 2020 Summer Olympics ''very impressive,'' as it wrapped a four-day inspection of the Japanese capital the same day.

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BOJ lifts economic assessment

TOKYO, Japan - Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa holds a press conference at the BOJ's head office in Tokyo on March 7, 2013, after the central bank upgraded its assessment of the economy and kept its monetary policy unchanged at the last policy meeting chaired by Shirakawa, who will step down later in the month.

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China air pollution

BEIJING, China - A woman pushes a stroller in central Beijing on March 7, 2013, as air pollution blankets the Chinese capital.

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China air pollution

BEIJING, China - Photo shows an area in central Beijing on March 7, 2013, as air pollution blankets the Chinese capital.

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New Ishigaki Airport

ISHIGAKI, Japan - One of the first flights departs a new airport with a longer runway as it opened on the remote island of Ishigaki in Okinawa Prefecture on March 7, 2013.

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Chinese dissident Lu

TOKYO, Japan - A May 2012 file photo shows Chinese human rights activist Lu Haitao. Lu has been in the United States after having taken refuge at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing in December 2012, it was learned on March 7, 2013.

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New Ishigaki Airport

ISHIGAKI, Japan - A tape-cutting ceremony is held at a new airport with a longer runway as it opened on the remote island of Ishigaki in Okinawa Prefecture on March 7, 2013.

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Diplomatic documents declassified

TOKYO, Japan - A 1953 file photo shows a gate at then Sugamo Prison in Tokyo. Japanese diplomatic documents declassified on March 7, 2013, show that after regaining its sovereignty under the 1952 San Francisco Peace Treaty, Japan strongly urged the United States to approve the early release of or reduced sentences for Class-A and other war criminals held at the prison.

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Diplomatic documents declassified

TOKYO, Japan - A file photo shows former U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt. Japanese diplomatic documents declassified on March 7, 2013, show prosecutors at the Tokyo war crime trials following Japan's surrender in 1945 closely looked into the delay in delivering Roosevelt's letter to the Japanese emperor on the eve of war, apparently to establish that the Japanese foreign minister was responsible for failing to stop Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.

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Diplomatic documents declassified

TOKYO, Japan - A 1945 file photo shows part of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. Japanese diplomatic documents declassified on March 7, 2013, show reporters from the victorious allies tried to interview then Emperor Hirohito at the palace while soldiers visited an imperial villa and demanded a guide to it.

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Diplomatic documents declassified

TOKYO, Japan - A file photo shows former Japanese Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda. Japanese diplomatic documents declassified on March 7, 2013, show that Fukuda, then foreign minister, expressed discontent over an attempt by the United States to use the historic 1971 meeting between Emperor Hirohito and U.S. President Richard Nixon in Alaska for political purposes.

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Diplomatic documents declassified

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows part of Japanese diplomatic documents declassified at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on March 7, 2013.

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New Ishigaki airport

FUKUOKA, Japan - A January 2013 photo from a Kyodo News plane shows the new Ishigaki airport on Ishigaki Island, Okinawa Prefecture, opening on March 7, 2013. It took 37 years from planning to completion due to environmental concerns over local coral reefs.

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New Ishigaki airport

FUKUOKA, Japan - A January 2013 photo from a Kyodo News plane shows the new Ishigaki airport on Ishigaki Island, Okinawa Prefecture, opening on March 7, 2013. It took 37 years from planning to completion due to environmental concerns over local coral reefs.

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Japanese food culture events in Paris

PARIS, France - A man makes a cocktail using Japanese sake at the Japanese ambassador's official residence in Paris on Feb. 7, 2013. A slate of events to introduce Japanese food culture is being held for about two months through March in the French capital as part of efforts to have "washoku" Japanese cuisine listed on UNESCO's list of intangible cultural heritages.

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Japanese food culture events in Paris

PARIS, France - An oyster farmer (R) explains an oyster recipe at the Japanese ambassador's official residence in Paris on Feb. 7, 2013. A slate of events to introduce Japanese food culture is being held for about two months through March in the French capital as part of efforts to have "washoku" Japanese cuisine listed on UNESCO's list of intangible cultural heritages.

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Conductor Ozawa

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa. His office said in March 7, 2012, that Ozawa will cancel all of his scheduled performances through the end of February 2013 so he can concentrate on regaining his health.