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Kite-flying in Gaza to show solidarity with Japan

KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA STRIP, March 9 Kyodo - Children fly kites at an event held in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, on March 9, 2015, to show solidarity with people affected by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The kite-flying event has been held around the same time every year since 2012.

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Vets reopen clinic away from home in Fukushima

KORIYAMA, Japan - Veterinarian Michiko Watanabe examines a cat found in the evacuation zone set after the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, on Jan. 9, 2014 at her animal clinic in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture. Together with her vet husband, Watanabe reopened the clinic in April 2012, a year after they evacuated their hometown near the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant following the March 2011 disaster.

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Sony posts 1st net profit in 5 yrs

TOKYO, Japan - Sony Corp. Chief Financial Officer Masaru Kato speaks during a press conference at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo on May 9, 2013. Sony posted a group net profit of 43.03 billion yen for fiscal 2012 ended in March 2013, returning to the black for the first time in five years, citing sales of assets and the benefit of a weaker yen.

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Sony posts 1st net profit in 5 yrs

TOKYO, Japan - Sony Corp. Chief Financial Officer Masaru Kato (2nd from front in left row) speaks during a press conference at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo on May 9, 2013. Sony posted a group net profit of 43.03 billion yen for fiscal 2012 ended in March 2013, returning to the black for the first time in five years, citing sales of assets and the benefit of a weaker yen.

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On-demand bus service for evacuees

KAMAISHI, Japan - Takenori Noda (R), mayor of Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, and Soichiro Okudaira, an executive of Toyota Motor Corp., shake hands after concluding an agreement in Kamaishi on Aug. 9, 2012, to jointly test an on-demand bus system linking temporary housing units in the city affected by the 2011 great earthquake and tsunami with its downtown area from October 2012 until March 2015.

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Another reactor at Oi power plant reactivated

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on July 9, 2012, shows the No. 4 reactor building (front) at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture. The No. 4 reactor was reactivated around 9 p.m. on July 18, becoming only the second reactor to resume operation after being shut down for periodic checks since the Fukushima nuclear crisis began in March 2011. The building housing the No. 3 reactor, which the utility reactivated on July 1 and brought to full operation on July 9, stands just behind.

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After bomb explosion in Thailand

HAT YAI, Thailand - Workers clear a hotel in Hat Yai city in southern Thailand's Songkhla Province on April 9, 2012, after an explosion at the site on March 31.

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Quake charity concert in N.Y.

NEW YORK, United States - Japanese singer Tokiko Kato (front C) and around 300 members of choirs from Japan and the United States hold a charity concert in New York's Carnegie Hall on April 9, 2012, to help rebuild northeastern Japan following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Toyama gov. inspects temporary site for disaster debris

MORIOKA, Japan - Toyama Gov. Takakazu Ishii (R) inspects a facility at a temporary site for debris left by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in the town of Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, on April 9, 2012. Toyama Prefecture is considering accepting disaster debris from Iwate Prefecture.

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Toyama gov. inspects temporary site for disaster debris

MORIOKA, Japan - Toyama Gov. Takakazu Ishii (R) measures airborne radiation levels at a temporary site for debris left by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in the town of Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, on April 9, 2012. Toyama Prefecture is considering accepting disaster debris from Iwate Prefecture.

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Kerry requested for visiting North by minister

NEW YORK, United States - U.S. Sen. John Kerry, a Democrat from Massachusetts and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, answers reporters' questions in New York on March 9, 2012, after meeting at a seminar North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho, the country's chief envoy to the six-party talks on the North's denuclearization. South Korea's former Unification Minister Lim Dong Won, who also attended the seminar, said on March 20 that Ho requested Kelly to visit North Korea and that Kelly expressed his intention to accept.

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Falklands 30 years after war

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - A tourist takes photos of penguins on the Falkland Islands on March 9, 2012, some 30 years after the 1982 Falklands War.

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Memorial service in Paris for tsunami victims

PARIS, Japan - A memorial service is held at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on March 9, 2012, for the victims of the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami in Japan on March 11, 2011.

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Japan coach Zaccheroni

TOKYO, Japan - Japan national soccer team coach Alberto Zaccheroni is pictured while being asked questions by reporters in Tokyo on March 9, 2012. Japan were drawn the same day into Group B with Australia, Jordan, Oman and Iraq for the final round of qualifiers for the 2014 World Cup in a draw held at the Asian Football Confederation's headquarters in Kuala Lumpur.

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Ukraine parliament speaker in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Volodymyr Lytvyn (L), speaker of Ukraine's parliament, and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda shake hands at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on March 9, 2012.

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Bo at press conference

BEIJING, China - Bo Xilai (C), Communist Party chief of China's southwestern municipality of Chongqing, gives a press conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 9, 2012, during the 10-day National People's Congress, amid speculation his rise has been blocked by political scandal involving a former aide.

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Ukraine parliament speaker in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Volodymyr Lytvyn (L), speaker of Ukraine's parliament, and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda hold talks at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on March 9, 2012.

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Japanese products promoted in Myanmar

YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar officials look at motorcycles on display at an exhibition held at a hotel in Yangon, Myanmar, on March 9, 2012, by the Japan External Trade Organization to introduce Japanese products.

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Bo at press conference

BEIJING, China - Bo Xilai (L), Communist Party chief of China's southwestern municipality of Chongqing, gives a press conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 9, 2012, during the 10-day National People's Congress, amid speculation his rise has been blocked by a political scandal involving a former aide.

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Japanese products promoted in Myanmar

YANGON, Myanmar - Visitors look around at an exhibition held at a hotel in Yangon, Myanmar, on March 9, 2012, by the Japan External Trade Organization to introduce Japanese products.

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Bo Xilai appears at annual meeting of Chinese parliament

BEIJING, China - Reporters gather in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 9, 2012. Bo Xilai, the high-flying Communist Party boss of southwest China's Chongqing municipality, made a public appearance the same day at the annual meeting of the country's parliament, amid speculation his rise has been blocked by a scandal involving an aide.

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Bo Xilai appears at annual meeting of Chinese parliament

BEIJING, China - Reporters gather in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 9, 2012. Bo Xilai, the high-flying Communist Party boss of southwest China's Chongqing municipality, made a public appearance the same day at the annual meeting of the country's parliament, amid speculation his rise has been blocked by a scandal involving an aide.

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TPP talks in Melbourne

MELBOURNE, Australia - Photo taken March 9, 2012, shows a joint press conference by chief negotiators from nine countries taking part in Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade talks in Melbourne, Australia.

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Empress Michiko visits museum

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Empress Michiko arrives at a museum in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward to see a picture book exhibit on March 9, 2012, with people (crouching) who have evacuated from areas affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami greeting her. (Pool photo)

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Search for missing in Iwate

MIYAKO, Japan - Japan Coast Guard divers search for remains of people missing in the March 2011 quake and tsunami, in an operation off the coast of Miyako port in Iwate Prefecture on March 9, 2012. Police and coast guard the same day launched a three-day intensive search.

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Gov't meeting on March 11, 2011

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on March 11, 2011, shows Prime Minister Naoto Kan (3rd from L) speaking at a meeting. The Japanese government was aware of the possibility of a nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on the same day, when the complex was crippled by the massive earthquake and tsunami that ravaged northeastern Japan, a summary of meetings of the government's nuclear emergency headquarters showed on March 9, 2012.

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Ship launch ceremony

KOBE, Japan - The Emerald Ace, a vehicle carrier built at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.'s shipyard in Kobe, is launched in a ceremony at the shipyard on March 9, 2012. The vessel was the last merchant ship produced at the shipyard, which is being withdrawn from the commercial ship business.

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Moment of silence at parliament

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (L front) and members of his Cabinet observe a moment of silence at the start of a parliamentary session in the Diet in Tokyo on March 9, 2012, ahead of the first anniversary two days later of the Great East Japan Earthquake.

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Ship launch ceremony

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on March 9, 2012, shows the Emerald Ace, a vehicle carrier, shortly after its launch ceremony at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.'s shipyard in Kobe. The vessel was the last merchant ship produced at the shipyard, which is being withdrawn from the commercial ship business.

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Ship launch ceremony

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on March 9, 2012, shows the Emerald Ace, a vehicle carrier, during its launch ceremony at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.'s shipyard in Kobe. The vessel was the last merchant ship produced at the shipyard, which is being withdrawn from the commercial ship business.

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'Thank you' message from Japan

SEOUL, South Korea - A message from the Japanese Embassy in South Korea, expressing gratitude for assistance extended by South Korean people to Japan in the wake of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, is printed in the three major dailies in South Korea on March 9, 2012, ahead of the first anniversary two days later of the disaster.

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Elementary school soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show the gymnasium at Yuriage Elementary School in the city of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 9, 2011 (top), with items retrieved from areas devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same gymnasium on March 5, 2012 (bottom), in which items are still left without being picked up.

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Rikuzentakata soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show an area in the city of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on April 9, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 4, 2012 (bottom).

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Chocolates supporting disaster-hit areas

SENDAI, Japan - A woman shows chocolates (L) made with six different types of Japanese sake brewed in Miyagi Prefecture, hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, and chocolates (R) made with honey produced in Sendai, the prefectural capital, at the Fujisaki department store in Sendai on Feb. 9, 2012.

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Nuclear power plant in Fessenheim, France

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in March 2011 shows the Fessenheim nuclear power plant in Fessenheim, eastern France. French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited the plant Feb. 9, 2012, and said before its workers he will not shut down the country's oldest nuclear plant that began operating in 1977.

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U.N. forest hero

NEW YORK, United States - Japan's fisherman-turned-environmentalist Shigeatsu Hatakeyama holds the English version of his book before a ceremony for six recipients including him of the United Nations Forum on Forests' Forest Hero award at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Feb. 9, 2012. Hatakeyama, from Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, is founder and chairman of Mori wa Umi no Koibito (Forests are Lovers of the Sea), a nonprofit environmental conservation organization. Kesennuma is one of the areas hardest-hit by the March 2011 tsunami.

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Mitsubishi SUV Outlander

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Mitsubishi Motors Corp.'s Outlander sports utility vehicle. The automaker announced Feb. 9, 2012, that it will launch a plug-in hybrid model of the Outlander within fiscal 2012 ending in March 2013. The model is expected to become the first commercial plug-in hybrid SUV, according to the automaker.

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Reconstruction minister Hirano

TOKYO, Japan - Tatsuo Hirano, minister in charge of reconstruction from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, enters the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Feb. 9, 2012. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda the same day appointed Hirano as head of a new agency to bolster efforts to rebuild areas ravaged by the natural disaster.