Cologne acquire World Cup striker Osako

Cologne acquire World Cup striker Osako

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows TSV 1860 Munich's Yuya Osako, a Japan World Cup squad member, speaking to reporters at Tokyo's Haneda airport on May 13, 2014, after returning from Germany. German second-division side Cologne said June 5, 2014, that they have acquired Osako from TSV 1860 Munich.

Photobook on pre-quake lives in Iwate Pref. town

Photobook on pre-quake lives in Iwate Pref. town

MORIOKA, Japan - Goichi Tamura, the head of a citizens' group to hand down tsunami experience in the town of Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, holds a photography book capturing the townscape of Yamada before the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, in this photo taken on May 13, 2014. The title of the book can be translated as "Sea, Town and Festivals: Bring Back Memories of Our Town Yamada."

Police on alert in Brazil ahead of World Cup

Police on alert in Brazil ahead of World Cup

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - A police officer patrols a "favela," or slum neighborhood, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on May 13, 2014, ahead of next month's opening of the soccer World Cup.

Raw silk making at Silk Museum

Raw silk making at Silk Museum

YOKOHAMA, Japan - A child experiences the process of producing raw silk from cocoons at the Silk Museum in Yokohama on May 13, 2014.

Tensions in S. China Sea

Tensions in S. China Sea

TOKYO, Japan - A crew member watches Chinese vessels from a Vietnamese Coast Guard boat in waters near the Paracel Islands, claimed by China and Vietnam, in the South China Sea on May 13, 2014.

Tensions in S. China Sea

Tensions in S. China Sea

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows yellow dots indicating Chinese vessels on a radar on a Vietnamese Coast Guard boat in waters near the Paracel Islands, claimed by China and Vietnam, in the South China Sea on May 13, 2014.

Mitsubishi Regional Jet on display at U.S. trade show

Mitsubishi Regional Jet on display at U.S. trade show

ST. LOUIS, United States - A life-size model of the cabin interior of the Mitsubishi Regional Jet being developed by Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp., set to be the first Japanese-built small passenger jet, is displayed at a U.S. trade show that opened on May 13, 2014, in St. Louis, Missouri. Mitsubishi Aircraft is focusing on North America as a major overseas market of the new aircraft.

Shields gets 1,500th career strikeout

Shields gets 1,500th career strikeout

KANSAS CITY, United States - Kansas City Royals pitcher James Shields throws during a game against the Colorado Rockies at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, on May 13, 2014. Shields earned his 1,500th career strikeout in the game. The Royals won 5-1.

Shields gets 1,500th career strikeout

Shields gets 1,500th career strikeout

KANSAS CITY, United States - Kansas City Royals pitcher James Shields acknowledges cheers from spectators after earning his 1,500th career strikeout during the sixth inning of a game against the Colorado Rockies at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, on May 13, 2014. The Royals won 5-1.

Isamu Noguchi Award

Isamu Noguchi Award

NEW YORK, United States - Photo shows Japanese contemporary artist Hiroshi Sugimoto (R) and British architect Norman Foster, recipients of the inaugural Isamu Noguchi Award, at the Noguchi Museum in New York on May 13, 2014. The museum features works of Isamu Noguchi, a late Japanese-American sculptor.

Animated film supervised by Nagatomo aired in Milan

Animated film supervised by Nagatomo aired in Milan

MILAN, Italy - Inter Milan soccer player Yuto Nagatomo responds to questions from the press about an animated film he supervised during the Japan Film Festival in Milan on May 13, 2014. Based on Nagatomo himself, the film depicts in a humorous way how the Japanese footballer grew up to be a top-notch player.

Isamu Noguchi Award

Isamu Noguchi Award

NEW YORK, United States - Photo shows Japanese contemporary artist Hiroshi Sugimoto (R) and British architect Norman Foster (C), recipients of the inaugural Isamu Noguchi Award, at the Noguchi Museum in New York on May 13, 2014. At left is Motohide Yoshikawa, Japanese ambassador to the United Nations. The museum features works of Isamu Noguchi, a late Japanese-American sculptor.

Mets' Matsuzaka pitches against Yankees

Mets' Matsuzaka pitches against Yankees

NEW YORK, United States - New York Mets relief pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka throws during a game against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium in New York on May 13, 2014. The Mets won 12-7.

Mets' Matsuzaka pitches against Yankees

Mets' Matsuzaka pitches against Yankees

NEW YORK, United States - New York Mets relief pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka throws during a game against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium in New York on May 13, 2014. The Mets won 12-7.

Mets' Matsuzaka pitches against Yankees

Mets' Matsuzaka pitches against Yankees

NEW YORK, United States - New York Mets relief pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka throws during a game against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium in New York on May 13, 2014. The Mets won 12-7.

Mets' Matsuzaka pitches against Yankees

Mets' Matsuzaka pitches against Yankees

NEW YORK, United States - New York Mets relief pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka throws during a game against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium in New York on May 13, 2014. The Mets won 12-7.

Mets' Matsuzaka pitches against Yankees

Mets' Matsuzaka pitches against Yankees

NEW YORK, United States - New York Mets relief pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka throws during a game against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium in New York on May 13, 2014. The Mets won 12-7.

Mitsubishi Aircraft's small jet

Mitsubishi Aircraft's small jet

ST. LOUIS, United States - Hirofumi Takahashi, president of Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp.'s U.S. unit, holds a press conference at the Regional Airline Association's Annual Convention in St. Louis, Missouri, on May 13, 2014. Mitsubishi Aircraft is touting its still-in-development Mitsubishi Regional Jet at the U.S. trade show that opened the same day. Takahashi said some test flights will be conducted in the United States from the latter half of 2015.

Cerezo's Minamino plays against Guangzhou

Cerezo's Minamino plays against Guangzhou

GUANGZHOU, China - Cerezo Osaka's Takumi Minamino (R) tries to dodge Feng Xiaoting during an Asian Champions League match against China's Guangzhou Evergrande on May 13, 2014, in Guangzhou, China. Cerezo won 1-0.

Kishida, Netanyahu

Kishida, Netanyahu

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (L) holds talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a Tokyo hotel on May 13, 2014. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

Cerezo eliminated from Asian Champions League

Cerezo eliminated from Asian Champions League

GUANGZHOU, China - Cerezo Osaka players are seen after being eliminated from the Asian Champions League despite a 1-0 win over China's Guangzhou Evergrande in the second leg of the round of 16 of the Asian Champions League on May 13, 2014, in Guangzhou, China.

Cerezo's Kakitani in action against Guangzhou

Cerezo's Kakitani in action against Guangzhou

GUANGZHOU, China - Yoichiro Kakitani (L) of Cerezo Osaka fires a shot in front of Zhang Linpeng of Guangzhou Evergrande in an Asian Champions League match in Gunagzhou, China, on May 13, 2014. Osaka won 1-0.

Jin to release glasses capable of measuring eye strain

Jin to release glasses capable of measuring eye strain

TOKYO, Japan - Jin Co.'s Jins Meme glasses can measure the levels of eye fatigue with sensors. The eyewear maker announced May 13, 2014, that it will release Jins Meme in 2015.

Kishida, Netanyahu

Kishida, Netanyahu

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (L) shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of their meeting at a Tokyo hotel on May 13, 2014. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

Shizuoka, Mongolia ink industrial, agricultural accord

Shizuoka, Mongolia ink industrial, agricultural accord

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Shizuoka Gov. Heita Kawakatsu (R) and Bayanjargal Tsogtgerel, Mongolia's deputy minister for industry and agriculture, shake hands after signing a memorandum of understanding for industrial and agricultural cooperation in Shizuoka, central Japan, on May 13, 2014.

U.S. envoy Kennedy at Kobo Stadium Miyagi

U.S. envoy Kennedy at Kobo Stadium Miyagi

SENDAI, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy and her son John Schlossberg are seen smiling after Kennedy threw a ceremonial first pitch at a baseball game between Rakuten Eagles and Orix Buffaloes at Kobo Stadium Miyagi in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 13, 2014.

Kennedy throws out 1st pitch

Kennedy throws out 1st pitch

SENDAI, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy throws out a ceremonial first pitch in a baseball game between Rakuten and Orix at Kobo Stadium Miyagi in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 13, 2014.

U.S. envoy Kennedy with Tohoku kids in Sendai

U.S. envoy Kennedy with Tohoku kids in Sendai

SENDAI, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (3rd from L, back row) poses for photos with children invited from six prefectures in northeastern Japan before her ceremonial first pitch at a baseball game between Rakuten Eagles and Orix Buffaloes at Kobo Stadium Miyagi in Sendai on May 13, 2014.

Nobel laureate physicist Nambu views Yukawa's blackboard

Nobel laureate physicist Nambu views Yukawa's blackboard

OSAKA, Japan - Yoichiro Nambu, a professor emeritus at the University of Chicago and recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics, smiles before a blackboard used by the late physicist Hideki Yukawa, the first Japanese Nobel laureate, during an unveiling ceremony at the Toyonaka campus of Osaka University on May 13, 2014. Yukawa used the blackboard at Columbia University in New York.

MGM Resorts CEO explains casino plan in Osaka

MGM Resorts CEO explains casino plan in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - James Murren, chief executive officer of MGM Resorts International, explains a casino plan at a press conference in Osaka on May 13, 2014. Osaka's Yumeshima is a candidate site for the resort plan.

A-bomb survivor reports on NY activities in Hiroshima

A-bomb survivor reports on NY activities in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Kunihiko Sakuma (R), an atomic bomb survivor from Hiroshima, reports at a press conference in Hiroshima on May 13, 2014 on the activities he undertook during a recent visit to New York to campaign against nuclear weapons. He attended the Preparatory Committee for the 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in New York.

Nobel laureate Yukawa's blackboard unveiled

Nobel laureate Yukawa's blackboard unveiled

OSAKA, Japan - Harumi Yukawa (L), son of first Japanese Nobel laureate Hideki Yukawa, and Yoichiro Nambu, a professor emeritus at the University of Chicago and recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics, unveil a blackboard used by the late physicist at Columbia University in New York during a ceremony at the Toyonaka campus of Osaka University on May 13, 2014.

PM Abe meets S. Korean business leaders

PM Abe meets S. Korean business leaders

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets members of the Korea-Japan Economic Association at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on May 13, 2014. Abe expressed his hope to develop closer relations between Japan and South Korea and also offered his condolences over a recent tragic ferry accident off the South Korean coast.

Yumeshima is entertainment resort candidate

Yumeshima is entertainment resort candidate

OSAKA, Japan - Yumeshima, a man-made island in Osaka Bay, is photographed on May 13, 2014. It is a candidate site for construction of an entertainment resort including casinos.

Kennedy takes part in rice cake pounding in Sendai

Kennedy takes part in rice cake pounding in Sendai

SENDAI, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (L) takes part in a "mochi" rice cake pounding event at Sendai Nika Senior High School in Miyagi Prefecture on May 13, 2014. On the right is her son John Schlossberg.

Israel's economic council head meets press

Israel's economic council head meets press

TOKYO, Japan - Eugene Kandel, head of Israel's National Economic Council, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on May 13, 2014, expressing hopes for Japan's expansion of investment in his country.

Japan names World Cup reserves

Japan names World Cup reserves

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Football Association General Secretary Hiromi Hara in Tokyo on May 13, 2014, announces Japan's reserve players for the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil that will begin next month.

Kennedy tastes 'zunda mochi' rice cake in Sendai

Kennedy tastes 'zunda mochi' rice cake in Sendai

SENDAI, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy tastes "zunda mochi" rice cakes with students at Sendai Nika Senior High School in Miyagi Prefecture on May 13, 2014, after experiencing "mochi" making.

U.S. envoy for Afghanistan meets press in Tokyo

U.S. envoy for Afghanistan meets press in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - James Dobbins, U.S. special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, speaks about the situation in Afghanistan at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo on May 13, 2014.

5 western Japan prefectures discuss disaster prevention

5 western Japan prefectures discuss disaster prevention

TOTTORI, Japan - Officials from five prefectures in the western Japan region of Chugoku discuss cooperation in the case of an accident at Shimane nuclear power plant during their first meeting on disaster prevention in Tottori on May 13, 2014.

Kennedy, son visit high school in Sendai

Kennedy, son visit high school in Sendai

SENDAI, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (R) visits Sendai Nika Senior High School in Miyagi Prefecture with her son John Schlossberg on May 13, 2014.

Mitsubishi Chemical to enter shale gas business

Mitsubishi Chemical to enter shale gas business

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corp. President Yoshimitsu Kobayashi (L) and Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corp. President Shinji Tanabe give a press conference in Tokyo on May 13, 2014, to announce Mitsubishi Chemical's plan to purchase a majority stake in Taiyo Nippon with an eye toward entering the shale gas business in the United States.

Japan World Cup member Kiyotake returns to Japan

Japan World Cup member Kiyotake returns to Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Kiyotake, who was named to Japan's squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, arrives at Haneda airport in Tokyo, on May 13, 2014, returning from Germany.

Japan World Cup squad member Osako

Japan World Cup squad member Osako

TOKYO, Japan - 1860 Munich's Yuya Osako, a Japan World Cup squad member, speaks to reporters at Tokyo's Haneda airport on May 13, 2014, after returning from Germany.

Hasebe returns to Japan

Hasebe returns to Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Makoto Hasebe of Nuremberg speaks with reporters at Tokyo's Haneda airport on May 13, 2014, after his arrival from Germany. Hasebe was named to Japan's squad for the World Cup finals in Brazil the previous day.

Hasebe returns to Japan

Hasebe returns to Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Makoto Hasebe of Nuremberg is pictured at Tokyo's Haneda airport on May 13, 2014, after his arrival from Germany. Hasebe was named to Japan's squad for the World Cup finals in Brazil the previous day.

Johnson Reef

Johnson Reef

TOKYO, Japan - Supplied photo taken in February 2014 shows Johnson Reef, a Philippines-claimed reef in the South China Sea, with a Chinese military base seen at the bottom left. China has been shipping large quantities of soil to the reef, known in the Philippines as Mabini Reef, since 2012 apparently in a move to enlarge the land area for security facilities, Philippine and U.S. military sources said May 13, 2014. (Photo courtesy of the Philippines government)

Johnson Reef

Johnson Reef

TOKYO, Japan - Combined supplied photo shows Johnson Reef, a Philippines-claimed reef in the South China Sea. Photo in the top column was taken in February 2013 and the one in the bottom column was taken in February 2014. A Chinese military base is seen at the bottom left of the bottom photo. China has been shipping large quantities of soil to the reef, known in the Philippines as the Mabini Reef, since 2012 apparently in a move to enlarge the land area for security facilities, Philippine and U.S. military sources said May 13, 2014. (Photo courtesy of the Philippines government)

Keidanren, JA Zenchu align for agricultural promotion

Keidanren, JA Zenchu align for agricultural promotion

TOKYO, Japan - Keidanren Chairman Hiromasa Yonekura (standing) speaks during a meeting on an export promotion plan for domestic agricultural products with Akira Banzai, chairman of JA Zenchu (the Central Union of Agricultural Co-operatives) (2nd from R) in Tokyo, on May 13, 2014.

Panasonic to launch wearable 4K camera

Panasonic to launch wearable 4K camera

OSAKA, Japan - Panasonic Corp. announced on May 13, 2014, it will launch the HX-A500, a wearable 4K camera with image quality four times better than full HD resolution, in Osaka, western Japan, on May 13, 2015. The product will go on sale from June 12.