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Japanese children wish for peace in Gaza

A child flies a kite in Kamaishi in Iwate Prefecture on Jan. 8, 2024, with a message wishing for peace in Gaza written on it. About 30 children took part in the event in the northeastern Japan city hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, launched after people in Gaza flew kites in 2012 to wish for Japan's early recovery from the disaster.

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Katsura Bunshi wraps up name succession performances

OSAKA, Japan - Popular "rakugo" storyteller Katsura Bunshi greets the audience on March 8, 2014, in Osaka, western Japan, during the grand finale of a series of performances marking his succession to the name of his renowned master in "kamigata rakugo" in July 2012. He is the sixth-generation name holder.

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Toyota expects 36% profit jump

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda (L) and Nobuyori Kodaira, an executive vice president, attend a press conference in Tokyo on May 8, 2013, to release the company's earnings report for the just-ended fiscal 2012 and earnings forecast for fiscal 2013. Japan's largest automaker said it expects to book a group operating profit of 1.8 trillion yen for the current business year ending in March 2014, up 36.3 percent from the year before, on the back of a weaker yen and brisk sales in North America and Asia.

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Toyota expects 36% profit jump

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda ends a press conference in Tokyo on May 8, 2013, held to release the company's earnings report for the just-ended fiscal 2012 and earnings forecast for fiscal 2013. Japan's largest automaker said it expects to book a group operating profit of 1.8 trillion yen for the current business year ending in March 2014, up 36.3 percent from the year before, on the back of a weaker yen and brisk sales in North America and Asia.

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Toyota expects 36% profit jump

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda is surrounded by reporters after a press conference in Tokyo on May 8, 2013, held to release the company's earnings report for the just-ended fiscal 2012 and earnings forecast for fiscal 2013. Japan's largest automaker said it expects to book a group operating profit of 1.8 trillion yen for the current business year ending in March 2014, up 36.3 percent from the year before, on the back of a weaker yen and brisk sales in North America and Asia.

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Toyota expects 36% profit jump

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda attends a press conference in Tokyo on May 8, 2013, to release the company's earnings report for the just-ended fiscal 2012 and earnings forecast for fiscal 2013. Japan's largest automaker said it expects to book a group operating profit of 1.8 trillion yen for the current business year ending in March 2014, up 36.3 percent from the year before, on the back of a weaker yen and brisk sales in North America and Asia.

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Toyota expects 36% profit jump

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda attends a press conference in Tokyo on May 8, 2013, to release the company's earnings report for the just-ended fiscal 2012 and earnings forecast for fiscal 2013. Japan's largest automaker said it expects to book a group operating profit of 1.8 trillion yen for the current business year ending in March 2014, up 36.3 percent from the year before, on the back of a weaker yen and brisk sales in North America and Asia.

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Clinton in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton holds a T-shirt that was given to her at an event in Tokyo on July 8, 2012, for exchanges between U.S. youths and Japanese students who suffered the March 2011 quake and tsunami. She took part in an international conference on Afghan development in the Japanese capital. (Pool photo)

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Oi reactors

TOKYO, Japan - File photo in March 2012 shows (from R) No. 3 and No. 4 reactors of the Oi nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda mentioned on June 8, 2012, the need to reactivate the two idled reactors at the Oi plant to prevent a power crunch this summer, in a stepped-up effort to secure public support and consent from Fukui Prefecture which hosts the plant.

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Olympus to cut 2,700 jobs

TOKYO, Japan - Olympus Corp. President Hiroyuki Sasa speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on June 8, 2012. Olympus announced a five-year business plan to cut around 2,700 jobs by March 2014 and scrap about 40 percent of its 30 plants worldwide by March 2015 to improve its financial standing following the revelation of its investment loss coverup.

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German musical ensemble holds concert in quake-hit Japan city

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Members of the German chamber music ensemble Leipzig String Quartet perform on May 8, 2012, before students at Mono Junior High School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in 2011.

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Ishikawa gets engaged

NARITA, Japan - Japanese golfer Ryo Ishikawa gives a press conference at Narita airport on April 8, 2012, upon his return from the Masters Tournament. Ishikawa said he got engaged to his longtime girlfriend in March.

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Ishikawa gets engaged

NARITA, Japan - Japanese golfer Ryo Ishikawa gives a press conference at Narita airport on April 8, 2012, upon his return from the Masters Tournament. Ishikawa said he got engaged to his longtime girlfriend in March.

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Ishikawa gets engaged

NARITA, Japan - Japanese golfer Ryo Ishikawa (R) gives a press conference at Narita airport on April 8, 2012, upon his return from the Masters Tournament. Ishikawa said he got engaged to his longtime girlfriend in March.

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Falkland Islands

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - British soldiers stationed in the Falkland Islands are seen in Stanley, capital of the British territory, on March 8, 2012.

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Falkland Islands

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Children sit on a model of a canon in Stanley, the Falkland Islands, a British territory, on March 8, 2012.

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Medicine museum in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on March 8, 2012, shows a section where visitors can learn through a game-like program about the development of medicines at Kusuri Museum in Tokyo's Nihombashi district.

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Medicine museum in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on March 8, 2012, shows a model of a human body used to teach visitors how medicine passes through the body at Kusuri Museum in Tokyo's Nihombashi district.

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Elpida's manufacturing base in Hiroshima

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Elpida Memory Inc.'s mainstay plant in Hiroshima Prefecture on March 8, 2012. The Japanese chipmaker filed for court protection from creditors on Feb. 27, 2012 and later selected Micron Technology Inc. of the United States as its rehabilitation sponsor.

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Falklands governor

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Nigel Haywood, governor of the Falkland Islands, is interviewed in Stanley in the British territory on March 8, 2012.

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Cafeterias at gov't offices

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken March 8, 2012, shows the entrance of one of the cafeterias of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government office in Shinjuku.

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Israel missile defense

ASHKELON, Israel - Photo shows Israel's missile defense system called the Iron Dome deployed in Ashkelon, Israel, on March 8, 2012.

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109-yr woman successfully undergoes surgery for appendicitis

OSAKA, Japan - Ai Onishi (C), a 109-year-old woman in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, is pictured with her family and medical staff in the city on March 8, 2012. She successfully underwent surgery for appendicitis at the Daiichi Towakai hospital in the city on Feb. 22. To the left is the surgeon, Atsushi Okita.

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'CNN Headline' newscaster Yamaguchi dies

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in March 1989 shows TV personality Mie Yamaguchi. Yamaguchi, who was a bilingual ''CNN Headline'' newscaster and acted as a career woman with a craving for Japanese ''shibazuke'' pickles in a well-known TV commercial in the late 1980s, was found dead at her home in Yokohama on March 8, 2012, her management office said the following day. She was 51.

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S. Korean nuclear envoy in N.Y.

NEW YORK, United States - Lim Sung Nam, South Korea's chief delegate to the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program, leaves a seminar, also attended by Ri Yong Ho, his North Korean counterpart in the talks, in New York on March 8, 2012.

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Fukushima gov. visits crisis-hit nuclear plant

TOKYO, Japan - Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato, wearing protective gear against radiation, inspects the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in his prefecture on March 8, 2012, for the first time since the crisis started there about a year ago following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (Pool photo)

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Fukushima evacuees demonstrate in N.Y.

NEW YORK, United States - Yuri Tomitsuka (L front), 10, and Kaisei Fukagawa (R front), 7, take part in an antinuclear demonstration in New York on March 8, 2012. The two boys and their families voluntarily evacuated nuclear accident-hit Fukushima Prefecture last year.

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

TOKYO, Japan - March 8, 2012 photo shows the yellow containment vessel partially seen inside the No. 4 reactor building (front) and the No. 3 reactor building damaged by a hydrogen explosion at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture. (Pool photo)

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows an auxiliary boiler building (L) at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture on March 8, 2012. The building was damaged by the March 11, 2011, tsunami. On the back right is the turbine building for the No. 4 reactor at the plant. (Pool photo)

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Ito gets 4th World Cup win of season

TRONDHEIM, Norway - Japanese ski jumper Daiki Ito (C) is pictured on March 8, 2012, after picking up his fourth victory of the season at a World Cup meet in Trondheim, Norway. Richard Freitag (L) of Germany and Simon Ammann (R) of Switzerland placed second and third respectively.

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Flood barrier at Fukushima plant

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken March 8, 2012, shows a flood barrier at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, built after the start of the nuclear crisis there. The No. 4 reactor's turbine building is seen in the left background. (Pool photo)

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

TOKYO, Japan - Debris is being removed by cranes at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture on March 8, 2012. (Pool photo)

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

TOKYO, Japan - Debris is being removed by crane near the 4th reactor (back) of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture on March 8, 2012. (Pool photo)

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Keene granted Japanese nationality

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese literature scholar Donald Keene (L) receives a bouquet from an employee of Tokyo's Kita Ward government at the municipal hall on March 8, 2012, after he was granted Japanese nationality.

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Thai premier in Japan

SENDAI, Japan - Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra (L) visits Sendai Nikon Corp.'s camera plant in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 8, 2012. About 40 Thai employees are temporarily working at the plant after flooding destroyed the camera maker's plant in Thailand the previous year. (Pool photo)

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Keene granted Japanese nationality

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese literature scholar Donald Keene shows Japanese characters spelling his name during a press conference at Tokyo's Kita Ward government hall on March 8, 2012, after he was granted Japanese nationality.

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U.S., N. Korea meeting

BEIJING, China - Robert King, U.S. special envoy for North Korean human rights issues, speaks to reporters at Beijing airport before his departure on March 8, 2012. He held talks with An Myong Hun, deputy director general of the U.S. Affairs Department at North Korea's Foreign Ministry.

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Thai premier in Japan

NATORI, Japan - Visiting Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra hands a gift to a girl at a temporary home for survivors of the March 2011 quake and tsunami in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 8, 2012. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Thai premier in Japan

NATORI, Japan - Visiting Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra (L) offers a wreath at an area hit by the March 2011 quake and tsunami in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 8, 2012. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Yingluck meets crown prince in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra (L) is greeted by Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on March 8, 2012. (Pool photo)

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Yingluck meets crown prince in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra (R) and Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito meet at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on March 8, 2012. (Pool photo)

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U.N. Forest Hero

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Shigeatsu Hatakeyama, a Japanese environmental preservation activist in Miyagi Prefecture, one of the areas hardest hit by the March 11, 2011, disaster. The United Nations Forum on Forests said on Feb. 8, 2012, that Hatakeyama has been selected to win its Forest Hero award for the Asian region as a contributor to sustainable forest management.

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Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - An employee (R) of Tokyo Electric Power Co. indicates the level (shown by arrow) reached by the March 2011 tsunami as officials from local governments examine the inside of the building housing a heat exchange system using seawater for the No. 4 reactor at the Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture on Feb. 8, 2012. The plant south of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station was shown to reporters for the first time since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Officials from local governments examine the main steam isolation valve within the container vessel of the No. 4 reactor at the Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture on Feb. 8, 2012. The plant south of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station was shown to reporters for the first time since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Officials from local governments examine an emergency electric generator in the basement of the building housing the No. 1 reactor at the Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture on Feb. 8, 2012. The generator was inundated by the March 2011 tsunami. The plant south of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station was shown to reporters for the first time since the disaster. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo shows a motor for a reactor recirculation pump within the container vessel of the No. 4 reactor at the Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture on Feb. 8, 2012. The plant south of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station was shown to reporters for the first time since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Local government officials examine the bottom of the No. 4 reactor, inside its containment vessel, at the Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture on Feb. 8, 2012. The plant south of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station was shown to reporters for the first time since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Iwate reconstruction promotion event in Singapore

SINGAPORE, Singapore - A man introduces Japanese sake produced in Iwate Prefecture at an event to promote the reconstruction of the prefecture, damaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, in Singapore on Feb. 8, 2012. The event was organized by the Iwate prefectural government and the Japanese Foreign Ministry.

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Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Local government officials examine the bottom of the No. 4 reactor, inside its containment vessel, at the Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture on Feb. 8, 2012. The plant south of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station was shown to reporters for the first time since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Local government officials examine a spent fuel pool in the building housing the No. 1 reactor at the Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture on Feb. 8, 2012. The plant south of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station was shown to reporters for the first time since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)