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Stolen Buddha statue returned to Japan

Photo taken on May 15, 2025, at a museum in Tsushima in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Nagasaki shows a 14th-century Buddha statue that was recently returned to Kannonji temple in the city after it was stolen in 2012 and taken to South Korea. The statue, designated by Nagasaki Prefecture as a tangible cultural asset, was unveiled to the media the same day ahead of is public exhibition from May 16.

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Mitsubishi UFJ Financial announces earnings

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuyuki Hirano, president of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., announces the group's earnings for financial 2012 at the Bank of Japan's head office in Tokyo on May 15, 2013.

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Mizuho Financial announces earnings

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuhiro Sato, president of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., announces the group's earnings for financial 2012 at the Bank of Japan's head office in Tokyo on May 15, 2013.

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Olympus returns to black in FY 2012

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroyuki Sasa, president of Olympus Corp., holds a press conference in Tokyo on May 15, 2013, to release the company's earnings for fiscal 2012. Olympus said it returned to the black in the year ended March 31, 2013, with a group net profit of 8.02 billion yen, compared with a loss of 48.99 billion yen in the previous year, due partly to an improvement in its medical business.

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Tunnel collapse lawsuit

YOKOHAMA, Japan - A group of bereaved parents of five of the nine killed in the December 2012 ceiling collapse in the Sasago Tunnel head for the Yokohama District Court in Yokohama on May 15, 2013. They filed a lawsuit seeking some 890 million yen in compensation from Central Nippon Expressway Co., the operator of the expressway tunnel in Yamanashi Prefecture.

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Monju reactor

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in March 2012 shows the Monju prototype fast-breeder nuclear reactor in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture. The Nuclear Regulation Authority decided on May 15, 2013, to issue an order effectively prohibiting the reactor from restarting, noting a series of problems with safety management.

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Ballet troupe from disaster-hit Sendai performs in N.Y.

New York, United States - Yuko Takahashi, artistic director and choreographer of Yuko Takahashi Dance Company from Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, is pictured in New York on May 15, 2012. The modern ballet troupe from the city, which was severely hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in Japan, held a charity performance on May 17 in New York.

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Chinese activist Chen's supporters

WASHINGTON, United States - Fu Xiqiu (L front), founder and president of the ChinaAid Association, seated next to Rep. Christopher Smith (C front), speaks with Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng by phone, at the U.S. congress subcommittee in Washington on May 15, 2012.

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'Shizu-chan' crashes out of women's world c'ships

QINHUANGDAO, China - Japanese comedian Shizuyo Yamasaki (R), who has taken up boxing, is punched by Germany's Andrea Strohmayer in the third round of a middleweight bout at the women's world boxing championships in Qinhuangdao, China, on May 15, 2012. Yamasaki, known by her stage name ''Shizu-chan,'' could not land a punch line as she lost the bout.

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Greece heads for fresh elections in June

ATHENS, Greece - People watch a TV news program at a cafe in central Athens on May 15, 2012. Greece will hold fresh elections in June after political party leaders failed to form a coalition government the same day.

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Lady Gaga visits Tokyo Skytree

TOKYO, Japan - American pop star Lady Gaga smiles on the 350-meter observation deck of Tokyo Skytree in Tokyo's Sumida Ward on May 15, 2012. The 634-meter-high tower's grand opening is scheduled for May 22.

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Lady Gaga visits Tokyo Skytree

TOKYO, Japan - American pop star Lady Gaga smiles on the 350-meter observation deck of Tokyo Skytree in Tokyo's Sumida Ward on May 15, 2012. The 634-meter-high tower's grand opening is scheduled for May 22.

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Honda's Dream Yuga 110 for Indian market

NEW DELHI, India - A local subsidiary of Honda Motor Co. unveils the small motorcycle Dream Yuga 110 near New Delhi on May 15, 2012. The subsidiary dealing with motorcycles said it will release the new product in the Indian market in early June 2012.

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Plasma-display electronic blackboard system

OSAKA, Japan - Panasonic Corp. demonstrates an electronic blackboard system with a 65-inch plasma display panel and a stylus pen for writing and drawing images on the board in Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture, on May 15, 2012. The electronic manufacturer said it will roll out the electronic blackboard in late June 2012.

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Plasma-display electronic blackboard system

OSAKA, Japan - Panasonic Corp. demonstrates an electronic blackboard system with a 65-inch plasma display panel and a stylus pen for writing and drawing images on the board in Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture, on May 15, 2012. The electronic manufacturer said it will roll out the electronic blackboard in late June 2012.

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Confab calls for geoparks to be utilized for disaster awareness

NAGASAKI, Japan - The 5th International UNESCO Conference on Geoparks in Shimabara, Nagasaki Prefecture, holds a closing ceremony on May 15, 2012. Scientists and environmental conservationists affirmed the importance of drawing lessons from natural disasters and climate change by utilizing parks with geological features as they wrapped up the four-day conference.

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N. Korea's No. 2 leader meets Indonesian president

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (R) and North Korea's second-ranking leader Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, shake hands in Jakarta on May 15, 2012. They held talks the same day that focused on investment and how to boost bilateral trade, Indonesia's Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said.

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40th anniversary of Okinawa's reversion to Japan

GINOWAN, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (C) delivers a speech at a ceremony to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Okinawa Prefecture's return to Japan from U.S. military rule at the Okinawa Convention Center in Ginowan in the prefecture on May 15, 2012.

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Ex-PM Hatoyama apologizes to Okinawans

GINOWAN, Japan - Former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama gives a speech in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on May 15, 2012, the 40th anniversary of its reversion to Japanese sovereignty. During his speech in the city that hosts the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station, Hatoyama apologized to the people of the prefecture for his flip-flops when he was prime minister over the relocation of the controversial U.S. military base on the southwestern island.

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Fukui gov. calls on gov't to clarify nation's nuclear policy

FUKUI, Japan - Fukui Gov. Issei Nishikawa gives a press conference at the prefectural government building in the city of Fukui on May 15, 2012, after holding talks with senior vice industry minister Seishu Makino. Nishikawa told Makino that the central government should clearly outline the nation's nuclear policy as it seeks to restart two offline reactors in the prefecture.

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Honda's new personal mobility device

TOKYO, Japan - The UNI-CUB, a new electric personal mobility device developed by Honda Motor Co., is unveiled at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo's Odaiba district on May 15, 2012. The saddle-style prototype, with a front wheel and a small assisting wheel, allows a rider to control speed and direction by shifting weight in a sitting position.

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Nagatomo arrives in Japan

NARITA, Japan - Photo shows Japanese defender Yuto Nagatomo of Inter Milan at Narita airport, near Tokyo, on May 15, 2012, upon his arrival in Japan.

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KDDI unveils 'au' 2012 summer line

TOKYO, Japan - Women hold new models of ''au'' communication devices including the Urbano Progresso smartphone (2nd from L, front) in Tokyo on May 15, 2012, as KDDI Corp., the provider of the au cellphone service, unveils its 2012 summer line comprising five smartphone models and three conventional cellphone models.

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Honda's new personal mobility device

TOKYO, Japan - Mamoru Mohri, a former astronaut who heads the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, demonstrates riding the UNI-CUB, a new electric personal mobility device developed by Honda Motor Co., at the museum in Tokyo's Odaiba district on May 15, 2012. The saddle-style prototype, with a front wheel and a small assisting wheel, allows a rider to control speed and direction by shifting weight in a sitting position.

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Honda arrives in Japan

NARITA, Japan - Photo shows Japanese midfielder Keisuke Honda of CSKA Moscow at Narita airport, near Tokyo, on May 15, 2012, upon his arrival in Japan.

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40th anniversary of Okinawa's reversion to Japan

GINOWAN, Japan - People view the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station from a hill in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on May 15, 2012, the 40th anniversary of the prefecture's reversion to Japanese sovereignty from U.S. control.

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African wrestler at sumo rank

OSAKA, Japan - Egyptian Osunaarashi stands on the ring at Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium in Osaka City on March 15, 2012, as the Japan Sumo Association announced that he will ascend to sumo's jonokuchi rank in the upcoming tournament in May 2012. He made his debuted two days earlier as an unofficially ranked wrestler, becoming sumo's first-ever wrestler of African descent.

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Han elected leader of S. Korea opposition party

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in Seoul on May 3, 2006, shows former South Korean Prime Minister Han Myeong Sook. South Korea's main opposition Democratic United Party on Jan. 15, 2012, elected her as its new leader.

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Antiwar activist who torched Hinomaru flag

NAHA, Japan - File photo shows Shoichi Chibana, an antiwar activist in the village of Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, taking part in a mass protest rally over history textbooks at a Ginowan park in the prefecture on Sept. 29, 2007. The 64-year-old former village assemblyman, who was convicted of torching the Hinomaru flag at a national athletic meet in 1987, has vowed in an interview with Kyodo News to keep fighting to achieve peace in Okinawa ahead of the 40th anniversary on May 15, 2012, of the island's reversion to Japanese sovereignty from U.S. control.