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Ueda clinches Joo women's shogi title

Professional shogi player Hatsumi Ueda speaks to journalists after completing a three-game sweep in the best-of-the-five series against defending champ Tomomi Kai for the Joo (queen) women's title in Tokyo on May 10, 2011.

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Part of Joban railway line reopens in Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - A train runs near a radioactive waste storage yard in Naraha, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, as the Joban Line of East Japan Railway Co. resumes operations on a trial basis between Hirono and Tatsuta stations on May 10, 2014, after suspension caused by the 2011 nuclear plant disaster.

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Woman weeps before monument for March 2011 victims

SENDAI, Japan - A woman weeps before a monument listing the names of people killed in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster at a park in Iwanuma, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on May 10, 2014.

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New cenotaph for March 2011 disaster victims unveiled

SENDAI, Japan - A veil is removed from a new cenotaph for the victims of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster on a park hill built with debris from the catastrophe in Iwanuma, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on May 10, 2014.

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Sumo Nagoya meet begins

NAGOYA, Japan - Grand champion Hakuho performs a ring-entering ceremony on the first day of the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament in Nagoya on July 10, 2011. The Nagoya tournament marked the resumption of the regular tournament schedule following a match-fixing scandal, a meet canceled in March and a ''test meet'' in May.

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Sumo Nagoya meet begins

NAGOYA, Japan - Japan Sumo Association chief Hanaregoma (front C) and sumo wrestlers bow as the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament began in Nagoya on July 10, 2011. The Nagoya tournament marked the resumption of the regular tournament schedule following a match-fixing scandal, a meet canceled in March and a ''test meet'' in May.

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Sumo Nagoya meet begins

NAGOYA, Japan - Grand champion Hakuho (R) disposes of Tochinoshin in the blink of an eye in a dominating performance on the first day of the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament in Nagoya on July 10, 2011. The Nagoya tournament marked the resumption of the regular tournament schedule following a match-fixing scandal, a meet canceled in March and a ''test meet'' in May.

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Pet shelter in disaster-hit Ishinomaki

SENDAI, Japan - A pet owner (L) sees his dog at a pet shelter in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 10, 2011, about two months after a massive earthquake and tsunami struck the area. The shelter is holding animals for evacuees who are not able to take their pets with them to evacuation centers.

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Quake monument in China

YINGXIU, China - Tourists walk in front of a collapsed building, preserved as a monument to the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, in Yingxiu, Sichuan Province, on May 10, 2011, ahead of the third anniversary of the quake on May 12.

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Pakistani calls bin Laden operation U.S. 'propaganda'

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan - Malik Mahammad Raban, a 52-year-old newspaper vendor, sits at his stand in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on May 10, 2011. Raban called the U.S. operation that assassinated al-Qaida terrorist leader Osama bin Laden ''propaganda to undermine Pakistan.''

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Orioles' Uehara vs. Mariners

BALTIMORE, United States - Baltimore Orioles pitcher Koji Uehara pitches in the seventh inning of a game against the Seattle Mariners at Oriole Park in Baltimore on May 10, 2011. The Orioles won 7-6.

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Germany's Merkel expresses support for Japan-EU FTA talks

BERLIN, Germany - German Chancellor Angela Merkel gives a press conference at her office in Berlin on May 10, 2011. Merkel expressed support for the launch of negotiations to seal a free trade agreement between Japan and the 27-member European Union.

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Japan hopes to host U.N. disaster conference

GENEVA, Switzerland - Shozo Azuma, senior vice minister at the Cabinet Office of Japan, speaks during a biennial U.N. disaster prevention gathering in Geneva on May 10, 2011. He expressed Tokyo's intention to host a U.N. conference on disaster risk reduction.

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Japan prepares for Rugby World Cup

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) Japan Rugby Football Union President Yoshiro Mori, a former Japanese prime minister, International Rugby Board Chairman Bernard Lapasset, and IRB Chief Executive Officer and Secretary General Mike Miller shake hands in Tokyo on May 10, 2011. Japan plans to host Rugby World Cup in 2019.

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Families in village affected by nuclear crisis

IITATE, Japan - Families with babies or small children attend a briefing on an evacuation plan in the village of Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, on May 10, 2011. Residents of the village are to evacuate soon due to high radiation levels from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.

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Kan to forgo PM's salary until nuclear crisis brought under control

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan speaks during a press conference at his office in Tokyo on May 10, 2011. Kan said he will forgo the monthly salary and biannual bonuses paid to him for serving as Japan's leader, starting from June, until the crisis at the Fukushima nuclear power plant is brought under control.

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Ship removed from roof

OTSUCHI, Japan - The sightseeing ship Hamayuri is lifted by cranes to be removed from the roof of an inn (back) in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on May 10, 2011. The sight of the vessel on the rooftop had been seen as symbolizing the devastation of the March 11 disaster since it was brought there by a tsunami.

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Flooded street in Ishinomaki

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - A woman walks her dog along a flooded street in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 10, 2011. The area has been flooded by high tides as the land sank due to the March 11 earthquake.

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U.S. evangelist in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - U.S. evangelist Franklin Graham (front L) and Ri Gun, director of the U.S. Affairs Department at North Korea's Foreign Ministry, shake hands as the North Korean official welcomed Graham at Pyongyang airport on May 10, 2011.

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TEPCO asks gov't to help in paying nuclear disaster damages

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Masataka Shimizu (L) hands a letter of request to industry minister Banri Kaieda (R) at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on May 10, 2011. TEPCO asked the government to help it pay the enormous costs expected in compensating victims of the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant while promising to streamline the company's operations to the utmost extent.

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Tea culture symposium in Beijing

BEIJING, China - A speaker addresses an audience at the sixth East Asia tea culture symposium in Beijing on May 10, 2011. The symposium, initiated in 2004 by Sen Genshitsu, former head of the Urasenke Japanese tea ceremony school, is intended to enhance friendship and mutual understanding in East Asia through tea culture.

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Nuclear evacuees briefly home

KAWAUCHI, Japan - Radiation levels are checked on photos taken back by evacuees from the village of Kawauchi, Fukushima Prefecture, near the crisis-hit Fukushima nuclear plant on May 10, 2011. A group of evacuees were allowed to briefly return to their homes within a no-entry zone to retrieve belongings.

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Tesla Motors' Model S

SAN FRANCISCO, United States - Photo shows Tesla Motors Inc.'s lithium-ion battery-powered Model S sedan. The U.S. electric vehicle maker based in Palo Alto, California, said May 9, 2011, it plans to start selling the model in Japan from around 2013 and will accept reservations from May 10, 2011.

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Yoshinaga promoted to Fuji Heavy Industries president

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Yasuyuki Yoshinaga, corporate executive vice president of Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., who will become president and chief operating officer of the company. The maker of Subaru automobiles on May 10, 2011, announced his promotion, which will take place in late June. Current President Ikuo Mori will become chairman while retaining his post as chief executive officer.

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New Hiroshima mayor visits Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (R) and Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (L) hold a press conference in the Nagasaki city office on May 10, 2011. Matsui visited Nagasaki in southwestern Japan for the first time since being elected mayor of the western Japan city in April. The mayors of the two atomic-bombed cities agreed during their talks to deepen cooperation in efforts to realize a world free of nuclear weapons.

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Evacuees move into temporary housing in Chiba Pref.

KATORI, Japan - People whose homes were damaged by the March 11 earthquake gather their belongings as they move into temporary housing units in Katori, Chiba Prefecture, on May 10, 2011.

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Nuclear evacuees to return home for 2 hours

KAWAUCHI, Japan - Residents of Kawauchi village, within a 20-kilometer radius of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, arrive at a public facility in the Fukushima Prefecture village on May 10, 2011, to receive protective clothing to shield against radiation before visiting their homes. Around 100 evacuees from the village were allowed to return home for roughly two hours to pick up belongings that can fit into a 70-centimeter by 70 cm plastic bag per household.

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Nuclear evacuees to return home for 2 hours

KAWAUCHI, Japan - Residents of Kawauchi village, within a 20-kilometer radius of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, receive protective suits to shield against radiation and other necessary equipment at a public facility in the Fukushima Prefecture village on May 10, 2011, in preparation for a roughly two-hour visit to their homes. Around 100 evacuees from the village were allowed to briefly return home to pick up belongings that can fit into a 70-centimeter by 70 cm plastic bag per household.

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Recovery of fallen device at Monju reactor planned

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken May 2010 shows the Monju prototype fast-breeder reactor in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture. The Japan Atomic Energy Agency said May 10, 2011, that it will undertake work in June 2011 to recover a fallen 3.3-ton device at the reactor. The device used for fuel exchange accidentally fell into the reactor vessel in August 2010.

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Request not to cancel another sumo meet

TOKYO, Japan - Head of the yokozuna deliberation council Takuhiko Tsuruta (C) and members of the council head to an extraordinary board meeting at Ryogoku Kokugikan sumo arena in Tokyo on March 10, 2011. The council said the same day that it had asked the Japan Sumo Association to hold the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament as scheduled in Tokyo in May as the spring tournament scheduled for March was scrapped in the wake of a bout-rigging scandal. The council considers candidates for promotion to sumo's top rank of yokozuna, or grand champion, before passing its recommendations to the JSA.

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Musicians to teach jazz in college

TOKYO, Japan - Jazz musicians Yosuke Yamashita (L), Sadao Watanabe (C) and Makoto Ozone smile after a press conference in Tokyo on May 10, 2010. They will teach a new course on jazz at Kunitachi College of Music in western Tokyo from the academic year beginning in April 2011.