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Kabuki actor Ichikawa Danshiro

File photo taken in September 2011 shows a portrait of renowned Kabuki actor Ichikawa Danshiro, who was found collapsed along with his wife and his son, Ichikawa Ennosuke, also a popular Kabuki actor, at their Tokyo home on May 18, 2023, with police suspecting the son attempted suicide. Danshiro and his wife were confirmed dead while their son's life is not in danger, according to an investigative source.

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Ex-Zaragoza player queried about game-rigging scandal

BARCELONA, Spain - Uruguayan striker Christian Stuani of Spanish First Division football club RCD Espanyol is asked by a local reporter in Barcelona on Dec. 18, 2014, about a match-fixing scandal involving his former team Real Zaragoza and Levante in May 2011. Javier Aguirre, coach of Japan's national team, is one of several dozen individuals named in a prosecution complaint on the alleged game rigging as he was manager of Zaragoza when it won the match against Levante and avoided relegation to the Second Division.

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Facebook CEO Zuckerberg

SAN FRANCISCO, United States - File photo shows Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Facebook Inc., in San Francisco in September 2011. Facebook, the operator of the world's largest social networking site, will go public May 18, 2012, on the Nasdaq Stock Market.

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Another reactor halted for checkup

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo news helicopter on May 18, 2011, shows the No. 2 reactor (L) of the Sendai nuclear power plant in Kagoshima Prefecture. Kyushu Electric Power Co. halted the reactor on Sept. 1 for a three-month scheduled checkup, leaving only 12 of Japan's 54 commercial reactors in operation.

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Anti-Gaddafi paintings in Libya

BENGHAZI, Libya - A student paints a picture condemning leader Muammar Gaddafi at an antigovernment stronghold in Benghazi, northeastern Libya, on May 18, 2011. He said it was OK to take his photo.

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Anti-Gaddafi paintings in Libya

BENGHAZI, Libya - A man paints pictures critical of leader Muammar Gaddafi in Benghazi, northeastern Libya, on May 18, 2011. He turned his back when the photographer pointed a camera at him.

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Sendai nuclear power plant

FUKUOKA, Japan - File photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Sendai nuclear power station in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture, on the southwestern main island of Kyushu, on May 18, 2011. It is operated by Kyushu Electric Power Co.

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Sendai nuclear power plant

FUKUOKA, Japan - File photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows (cylindrical structures from L to R) the No. 2 and No. 1 reactors at the Sendai nuclear power station in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture, on the southwestern main island of Kyushu, on May 18, 2011. It is operated by Kyushu Electric Power Co.

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Sendai nuclear power plant

FUKUOKA, Japan - File photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows (cylindrical structures from L to R) the No. 2 and No. 1 reactors at the Sendai nuclear power station in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture, on the southwestern main island of Kyushu, on May 18, 2011. It is operated by Kyushu Electric Power Co.

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Sendai nuclear power plant

FUKUOKA, Japan - File photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows (cylindrical structures from R to L) the No. 1 and No. 2 reactors at the Sendai nuclear power station in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture, on the southwestern main island of Kyushu, on May 18, 2011. It is operated by Kyushu Electric Power Co.

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Sendai nuclear power plant

FUKUOKA, Japan - File photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows (cylindrical structures from front to back) the No. 1 and No. 2 reactors at the Sendai nuclear power station in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture, on the southwestern main island of Kyushu, on May 18, 2011. It is operated by Kyushu Electric Power Co.

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Anti-Gaddafi soldiers

BENGHAZI, Libya - An instructor shows how to use a gun before men hoping to join forces to fight leader Muammar Gaddafi in Benghazi, northeastern Libya, on May 18, 2011.

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Anti-Gaddafi soldiers

BENGHAZI, Libya - Men hoping to join forces to fight leader Muammar Gaddafi are trained in Benghazi, northeastern Libya, on May 18, 2011.

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Ex-lawmaker Sato dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in 1999 shows former lawmaker Koko Sato who died of biliary cancer on May 18, 2011, at the age of 83. Sato was arrested over a high-profile bribery scandal involving Lockheed Corp. in the 1970s.

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IMF chief Strauss-Kahn resigns

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Dominique Strauss-Kahn, chief of the International Monetary Fund, who submitted a letter of resignation on May 18, 2011, in the wake of his arrest over the alleged sexual assault of a maid at a New York hotel.

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China's top military officer in U.S.

WASHINGTON, United States - Gen. Chen Bingde, chief of the General Staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, delivers a speech in Washington on May 18, 2011.

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China's top military officer in U.S.

WASHINGTON, United States - Gen. Chen Bingde, chief of the General Staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, delivers a speech in Washington on May 18, 2011.

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Pope's statue

ROME, Italy - A statue of Pope John Paul II is unveiled in Rome on May 18, 2011.

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Matsui 2-for-4 in A's loss

OAKLAND, United States - Oakland Athletics designated hitter Hideki Matsui breaks his bat as he hits an infield single during the fourth inning of a game against the Minnesota Twins at Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California, on May 18, 2011. Matsui went 2-for-4 in the team's 3-4 loss.

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A-bomb exhibition in Nepal

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (L) explains a display panel to visitors at a photo exhibition on the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at Tribhuvan University in the suburbs of Kathmandu, Nepal, on May 18, 2011. Nepali President Ram Baran Yadav conferred the inaugural Gautam Buddha International Peace Award on Taue and former Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba in recognition of their role as leaders of the global Mayors for Peace movement.

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Kyushu governors solicit tourists in Seoul

SEOUL, South Korea - Prefectural governors from Japan's southwestern main island of Kyushu solicit tourists in Seoul on May 18, 2011. The number of tourists from South Korea to Japan has dropped since the March 11 earthquake, tsunami and subsequent crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

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Kan at press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan speaks during a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on May 18, 2011. Kan said the government would fundamentally review the country's nuclear power administration over the years.

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Chinese, Pakistani premiers at ceremony in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (2nd from L) and Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani (3rd from L) attend a welcoming ceremony in Beijing on May 18, 2011. The two leaders are believed to have discussed bilateral cooperation on issues including counterterrorism and the economy.

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Scholarship fund for children affected by March 11 disaster

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) Masatoshi Koshiba, a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, architect Tadao Ando and Fast Retailing Co. President Tadashi Yanai attend a press conference at the education ministry in Tokyo on May 18, 2011. They and others established a scholarship foundation the same day for children affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Shizuoka tea

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Shizuoka Gov. Heita Kawakatsu (3rd from R in back row) promotes the safety of tea produced in Shizuoka Prefecture during an event at the prefectural government hall in Shizuoka City on May 18, 2011. The Shizuoka prefectural government and the Japanese central government were at odds over allowable radiation levels in tea as radioactive substances were dispersed from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. Shizuoka is one of the major tea production areas in Japan.

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Mizuho group to merge retail, corporate banking units

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on May 18, 2011, shows the headquarters of Mizuho Bank in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward. Mizuho Financial Group Inc. plans to merge its two core banking units, Mizuho Bank and Mizuho Corporate Bank, following massive computer system trouble in March, sources close to the matter said the same day.

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Airing out books containing A-bomb victims' names

NAGASAKI, Japan - Nagasaki City employees take part in an annual airing out of the books listing the names of the victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the southwestern Japanese city at the Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims on May 18, 2011, ahead of the onset of the rainy season. The list, which includes the names of 152,282 victims, comes in 154 volumes.

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Mizuho group to merge retail, corporate banking units

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on May 18, 2011, shows the headquarters of Mizuho Corporate Bank in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward. Mizuho Financial Group Inc. plans to merge its two core banking units, Mizuho Bank and Mizuho Corporate Bank, following massive computer system trouble in March, sources close to the matter said the same day.

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Nearly 3,000 taken to hospitals by ambulances from quake shelters

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows an ambulance running amid the debris in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture on March 18, 2011, in the wake of a devastating earthquake and tsunami on March 11. Nearly 3,000 evacuees living in shelters in three of the northeastern Japan prefectures worst affected by the disaster have been taken to hospitals by ambulance, according to a Kyodo News survey released May 17.

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N. Korea holds 1st large-scale magic show

PYONGYANG, North Korea - North Korea holds a large-scale magic show at May Day Stadium in Pyongyang on April 18, 2011. The show was the first of its kind in North Korea, part of a series of events to mark the 99th anniversary of the birth of the country's founder Kim Il Sung.