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Kate Barry Commits Suicide

Photographer Kate Barry, daughter of actress and singer Jane Birkin, died today, december 11, 2013, around 18:30 after falling from the fourth floor of her Paris apartment. Kate Barry was the daughter of Jane Birkin and British composer John Barry, best known for writing the soundtrack of many James Bond, who died in 2011. She was the half-sister of actresses Charlotte Gainsbourg and Lou Doillon. File photo : Singer Jane Birkin and her daughter photographer Kate Barry pose together during the launch party for La Redoute's new fashion collection presentation, held at the Couvent des Recollets, in Paris, France, on May 23, 2007. Photo by Nicolas Khayat/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Toyota President Toyoda

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken May 11, 2011, shows Akio Toyoda, president of Toyota Motor Corp. The Wall Street Journal picked Toyoda as one of 12 ''Corporate Executives to Watch Next Year'' on Dec. 30, 2011, saying 2012 may be a ''make or break year'' for the chief of the top Japanese automaker.

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Suit over pupils' deaths in tsunami

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Photo shows Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 19, 2014. A hearing was held the same day at the Sendai District Court in the prefecture, after relatives of 23 pupils at the school who died in the earthquake and tsunami disaster of March 11, 2011, filed a damages suit in March. At the school, 74 of the 108 pupils died or remain unaccounted for, and 10 of the 13 teachers and school officials died in the disaster.

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New oyster farming ship launched in Ishinomaki

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Takasago Maru No. 11, a newly built oyster farming ship, leaves a port in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 18, 2014, with fishermen's banners hoisted. The oyster farming business in the area was severely affected by the March 2011 tsunami.

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U.S. envoy Kennedy visits Iwaki, Fukushima Pref.

IWAKI, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy visits a support facility for children, affected by the March 11, 2011, disaster, in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on May 15, 2014.

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Intensive search for missing people in tsunami-hit Namie

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Police officers engage in an intensive search for clues to the whereabouts of the remains of people missing since the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on May 11, 2014.

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Intensive search for missing people in tsunami-hit Kesennuma

SENDAI, Japan - Volunteers and other people conduct an intensive search for clues to the whereabouts of the remains of people missing since the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on May 11, 2014.

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Flower auction in quake-hit Miyagi Pref.

NATORI, Japan - People take part in a flower auction at a morning market to buy Mother's day carnations and other flowers in the district of Yuriage in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, the area severely hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster, on May 11, 2014.

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Search for missing underway in disaster-hit Namie, Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - A firefighter searches the mouth of a river in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on May 11, 2014, looking for clues to the whereabouts of the remains of people missing since the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster.

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Lessons from 2011 quake to create safer evacuation

KAMAISHI, Japan - Mikio Yamazaki, a district welfare commissioner in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, on May 3, 2013, describes how he guided other residents toward evacuation shelters after the ground shook on the afternoon of March 11, 2011, at the former site of his shop in the city.

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Abandoned animals in Fukushima

TOKYO, Japan - In this photo taken in the town of Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture, on May 19, 2012, a cattle beast lies starved to death after its owner abandoned it in a barn. The town remains nearly deserted as the government in April 2011 designated it and other municipalities within a 20-kilometer ring around the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant as a no-go zone. The plant's reactors suffered meltdowns after being struck by the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami, spewing massive amounts of radioactive materials into the air and sea.

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Abandoned animals in Fukushima

TOKYO, Japan - In this photo taken in the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on May 20, 2012, an ostrich walks by the remains of another that starved to death after they were left abandoned at a breeding facility. In April 2011, the government designated Okuma and other municipalities within a 20-kilometer ring around the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant as a no-go zone. The plant's reactors suffered meltdowns after being struck by the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami, spewing massive amounts of radioactive materials into the air and sea.

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Abandoned animals in Fukushima

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in the town of Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture, on May 21, 2012, shows dogs that have been abandoned by their owners. The town remains nearly deserted as the government in April 2011 designated it and other municipalities within a 20-kilometer ring around the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant as a no-go zone. The plant's reactors suffered meltdowns after being struck by the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami, spewing massive amounts of radioactive materials into the air and sea.

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Residents in Miyagi plant trees on hill made of disaster debris

SENDAI, Japan - People take part in tree-planting in Iwanuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 26, 2012, on a roughly 4-meter high hill made of debris from the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami and built as an experimental wall against tidal waves.

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Residents in Miyagi plant trees on hill made of disaster debris

SENDAI, Japan - A woman and her daughter take part in tree-planting in Iwanuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 26, 2012, on a roughly 4-meter high hill made of debris from the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami and built as an experimental wall against tidal waves.

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Nissan logs 341 bil. yen net profit for FY 2011

TOKYO, Japan - Nissan Motor Co. Chief Executive Officer Carlos Ghosn speaks during a press conference at the company's head office in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on May 11, 2012. Nissan reported a consolidated net profit of 341.43 billion yen for financial 2011, up 7.0 percent from the year before, exceeding Toyota Motor Corp.'s 283.56 billion yen to become the best-performing Japanese automaker.

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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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Japan's last nuclear reactor goes offline

SAPPORO, Japan - Operators at 11:03 p.m. on May 5, 2012, look at displays in the central control room for the No. 3 reactor at Hokkaido Electric Power Co.'s Tomari nuclear power plant in the village of Tomari, Hokkaido, after Japan's last operating commercial reactor went offline for mandatory routine maintenance. The nation was left without electricity generated by nuclear power for the first time in 42 years, in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear crisis triggered by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Pool photo)

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Japan's last nuclear reactor goes offline

SAPPORO, Japan - Photo taken at 11:08 p.m. on May 5, 2012, shows Hokkaido Electric Power Co.'s Tomari nuclear power plant in the village of Tomari, Hokkaido. The building housing the No. 3 reactor can be seen to the right. The photo was taken shortly after the reactor, Japan's last operating commercial nuclear reactor, went offline for mandatory routine maintenance, leaving the nation without electricity generated by nuclear power for the first time in 42 years, in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear crisis triggered by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Japan's last nuclear reactor goes offline

TOKYO, Japan - A display in the head office of Hokkaido Electric Power Co. in Sapporo, Hokkaido, indicates the output of the No. 3 reactor at its Tomari nuclear power plant in the village of Tomari, Hokkaido, has fallen to zero at 11:03 p.m. on May 5, 2012. The reactor, Japan's last operating commercial nuclear reactor, went offline for mandatory routine maintenance, leaving the nation without electricity generated by nuclear power for the first time in 42 years, in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear crisis triggered by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Pool photo)

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New ship to shuttle between Hokkaido, disputed isles

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo shows new passenger vessel, the Etopirika, at a shipyard in Etajima, Hiroshima Prefecture, in western Japan, on Nov. 11, 2011, prior to its launch ceremony later in the day. The 1,150-ton ship, capable of carrying 84 passengers, will shuttle between Nemuro, Hokkaido, in northern Japan, and the Russian-held disputed islands off Hokkaido, known in Japan as the Northern Territories and as the Southern Kurils in Russia, from May 2012, to carry people taking part in visa-free exchange programs and other purposes.

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Japanese wins world cocktail title

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in May 2010 shows Takafumi Yamada, a Japanese bartender who won the World Cocktail Championship in Poland on Nov. 9, 2011, with an original cocktail on the theme of reconstruction from the March 11 disaster in Japan. Yamada said he created the vodka-based cocktail, Great Sunrise, in hope that ''a wonderful sunrise will shine all over Japan.''

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Tsunami-hit rice paddy in Iwate Pref.

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Volunteer workers on May 12, 2011, manually remove debris from a rice paddy in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, that was hit by the March 11 tsunami.

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Chinese students send condolence gifts to quake-hit Japanese school

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese elementary school students (left side) from Chiba Prefecture, affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, receive condolence gifts on July 15, 2011 at the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo, from Chinese students living in Sichuan, devastated by an earthquake in May 2008. Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua stands on the right front.

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Suit filed to seek decommissioning of Hamaoka reactors

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Plaintiffs carrying banners calling for an end to nuclear power walk to the Shizuoka District Court in the city of Shizuoka on July 1, 2011, to file a lawsuit seeking the decommissioning of the reactors at the Hamaoka nuclear power plant in the prefecture. Located in a major active fault zone, Chubu Electric Power Co. suspended the plant's Nos. 3 to 5 reactors in May at the request of the central government in the wake of the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant crippled by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The Nos. 1 and 2 reactors at the Hamaoka plant were deactivated in 2008 for decommissioning.

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JR East president apologizes to Tokyo governor

TOKYO, Japan - Satoshi Seino (L), president of East Japan Railway Co., visits Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara at the Tokyo metropolitan government office in Tokyo on June 20, 2011, to offer an apology over the railway operator's decision to suspend its services and shutter its major stations in the capital in the wake of a magnitude 9.0 earthquake in northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011, forcing stranded passengers out of the stations. The governor sent a protest letter to the company, commonly known as JR East, in May, saying the metropolitan government might start imposing taxes on JR East station facilities depending on its response to Tokyo's inquiry into the controversial decision.

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Hamaoka nuclear power plant

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on May 13, 2011, shows Hamaoka nuclear power plant, operated by Chubu Electric Power Co., in Omaezaki, Shizuoka Prefecture. Located on a major active fault zone, the plant has been suspended since May at the request of the central government in the wake of the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant crippled by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Hamaoka nuclear power plant

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on May 13, 2011, shows Hamaoka nuclear power plant, operated by Chubu Electric Power Co., in Omaezaki, Shizuoka Prefecture. Located on a major active fault zone, the plant has been suspended since May at the request of the central government in the wake of the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant crippled by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Children's book about Hakuho's lamb

SAPPORO, Japan - Mongolian sumo grand champion Hakuho (C) holds a copy of the children's book ''Kohitsuji Haira'' (Baby Sheep Haira) at an event in Sapporo on June 11, 2011. The book published in May by a Japanese publishing company features Haira, a lamb the yokozuna received as a gift from the Hokkaido town of Takikawa.

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ASEAN goodwill mission to Japan

JAKARTA, Japan - Surin Pitsuwan (L), secretary general of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, speaks in a press conference in Jakarta on May 31, 2011. He will lead a goodwill mission of volunteers from ASEAN to Japan to support areas hit by the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Heavy rain in northeastern Japan

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - A Self-Defense Forces vehicle runs through a flooded road in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 30, 2011, due to heavy rain brought by a tropical storm. Police and firefighters have been on alert for potential mudslides and flooding in northeastern Japan that suffered the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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Heavy rain in northeastern Japan

SENDAI, Japan - An agricultural field in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, is flooded due to heavy rain on May 30, 2011. Debris from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami still remains in the area.

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Heavy rain in northeastern Japan

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - A man walks on a flooded road in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 30, 2011, due to heavy rain and ground sinking caused by the March 11 earthquake.

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Nurses from Philippines

NAGOYA, Japan - Seventy nurses arrive from the Philippines at Chubu Centrair International Airport near Nagoya on May 29, 2011. Nearly 30 Filipino nurses have withdrawn from a program to work in Japan to acquire nursing qualifications in the country following the March 11 quake and tsunami.

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TEPCO releases undisclosed data on nuclear crisis

TOKYO, Japan - Junichi Matsumoto, an official of Tokyo Electric Power Co., speaks during a press conference at the company's headquarters in Tokyo on May 28, 2011, releasing data that had not been disclosed on radiation monitoring at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant when it was crippled by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami and began emitting radioactive materials.

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Actor Taro Yamamoto

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Japanese actor Taro Yamamoto. His management agency posted a message on its homepage on May 27, 2011, saying it has decided to accept Yamamoto's wish to withdraw from the agency so as not to cause trouble because of his personal activities. Yamamoto has been involved in anti-nuclear activities in the wake of the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant following the March 11 killer quake and tsunami.

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Radiation dosimeters distributed to Fukushima schools

TAMURA, Japan - Photo taken on May 27, 2011, in Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture, shows a type of radiation dosimeter. The prefectural government has distributed the dosimeters to all kindergartens, elementary, junior high and high schools in the prefecture in the wake of the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant triggered by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Nuke evacuees head home

MINAMISOMA, Japan - Evacuees in radiation protection suits from Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, board a bus in Minamisoma, Fukushima, to visit their town on May 27, 2011. Many of the residents, who were forced to evacuate due to radiation leaks from the plant after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, have lost their homes in the tsunami and are making the visit to offer prayers to the victims of the disaster, rather than to go home to retrieve personal belongings.

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Evacuees from town hosting Fukushima plant visit home

TAMURA, Japan - Evacuees in radiation protection suits from the town of Futaba, where the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is partly located, listen to instructions before heading for their hometown on May 26, 2011, in Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture. The residents, who had lived around 5 kilometers from the plant until the March 11 tsunami, were permitted to make brief visits home to retrieve their belongings.

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Nuclear evacuees briefly return home

NAMIE, Japan - Evacuees wearing radiation protection suits walk in their hometown of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, in devastation during their brief visit on May 26, 2011, with exhaust pipes of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant visible in the background (L, back). Many residents, who have been forced to evacuate due to radiation leaks from the power plant damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, lost their homes in the disaster.

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Nuclear evacuees briefly return home

MINAMISOMA, Japan - Evacuees from Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, put on radiation protection suits to prepare for a brief visit to their town on May 26, 2011, in Minamisoma, Fukushima. Many of the residents in the town, who were forced to evacuate due to radiation leaks from the plant, will use their visits for a memorial service there for the victims of the March 11 tsunami, instead of going home to retrieve their belongings, as they have lost their homes in the disaster.

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Prince Akishino visits disaster-hit Otsuchi

OTSUCHI, Japan - Prince Akishino (2nd from L), the second son of Emperor Akihito, and his wife Princess Kiko (L) talk with people affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami at an evacuation center in the town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on May 25, 2011. (Pool Photo)

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Stranded ship in Kamaishi

KAMAISHI, Japan - A large cargo ship, weighing 4,724 tons, remains stranded in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, on May 23, 2011, after being washed ashore by the March 11 tsunami.

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Burned ship in Kesennuma

KESENNUMA, Japan - A burned ship washed ashore by the March 11 tsunami remains stranded in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 25, 2011.

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Japan envoy thanks U.S. for postdisaster help

WASHINGTON, Unites States - Ichiro Fujisaki (front), Japan's ambassador to the United States, speaks before a panel of the U.S. House of Representatives' Foreign Affairs Committee in Washington on May 24, 2011. He expressed gratitude for U.S. help in relief work following the catastrophic March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

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PM Kan leaves for Europe

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan waves before departing for Europe from Haneda airport in Tokyo on May 24, 2011, making his first overseas trip since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster. He is scheduled to attend a two-day Group of Eight summit meeting in France and a meeting with top-level representatives of the European Union in Brussels.

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Charity concert in London

LONDON, England - Japanese violinist Akiko Suwanai (C) plays as a soloist at a charity concert given by the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra in London on May 23, 2011, to support relief efforts in the wake of the March 11 quake and tsunami in Japan.

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Tenor Domingo donates relief money

LOS ANGELES, United States - Tenor Placido Domingo (2nd from L) in Los Angeles on May 23, 2011, donates relief money to help people affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan. Domingo and Sebastian Musco, a vice chairman of the Los Angeles Opera, donated a total of $200,000. Standing 3rd from L is Junichi Ihara, consulate general of Japan in Los Angeles.

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PM Kan leaves for Europe

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan waves before departing for Europe from Haneda airport in Tokyo on May 24, 2011, making his first overseas trip since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster. He is scheduled to attend a two-day Group of Eight summit meeting in France and a meeting with top-level representatives of the European Union in Brussels.

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Indonesian President Yudhoyono

TOKYO, Japan - This undated file photo shows Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. He plans to visit Japan in June 2011 and will likely tour the March 11 earthquake-tsunami disaster zone to express sympathy for victims of the disaster, a presidential spokesman said May 23.