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Replica moai for disaster area displayed in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - A replica moai statue from Chile goes on display at the Grand Front Osaka commercial facility in Osaka on May 2, 2013. The newly made statue is a present given as a token of support by the Chilean government to the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. It will be displayed through May 9 before being transported to Minamisanriku.

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2 years after bin Laden's killing

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan - Children gather around a spring at the site where a hideout of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden used to stand, in Abbottabad, near Pakistan's capital Islamabad, on April 29, 2013. U.S. Navy Seals killed bin Laden there on May 2, 2011.

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2 years after bin Laden's killing

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan - Children play at the site where a hideout of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden used to stand, in Abbottabad, near Pakistan's capital Islamabad, on April 29, 2013. U.S. Navy Seals killed bin Laden there on May 2, 2011.

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2 years after bin Laden's killing

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan - Boys play in front of a wall with graffiti reading "WAKE UP MUSLIMS," in Abbottabad near Pakistan's capital Islamabad on April 29, 2013. The wall is part of what remains of the hideout of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, killed by U.S. Navy Seals there on May 2, 2011.

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2 years after bin Laden's killing

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan - A man plows a field within a site where a hideout of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden used to stand in Abbottabad, near Pakistan's capital Islamabad, on April 29, 2013. U.S. Navy Seals killed bin Laden there on May 2, 2011.

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2 years after bin Laden's killing

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan - A boy passes by a wall with graffiti reading "Osama is a martyr," in Abbottabad near Pakistan's capital Islamabad on April 29, 2013. The wall is part of what remains of the hideout of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, killed by U.S. Navy Seals there on May 2, 2011.

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Year after bin Laden's killing

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan - People pass the site where a hideout of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden used to be in Abbottabad, a garrison city in northwestern Pakistan, on April 30, 2012. U.S. Navy Seals killed bin Laden on May 2, 2011 in a house that used to stand there.

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Year after bin Laden's killing

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan - Boys play cricket at the site where a hideout of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden used to stand in Abbottabad, a garrison city in northwestern Pakistan, on April 30, 2012. U.S. Navy Seals killed bin Laden there on May 2, 2011.

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Year after bin Laden's killing

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan - A boy plays at the site where a hideout of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden used to be in Abbottabad, a garrison city in northwestern Pakistan, on April 30, 2012. U.S. Navy Seals killed bin Laden there on May 2, 2011.

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Deadly food poisoning at 'yakiniku' chain

KANAZAWA, Japan - Yasuhiro Kanzaka, president of Foods Forus Co., which operates the Yakiniku-zakaya Ebisu barbecue restaurant chain, speaks during a press conference on May 2, 2011, in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, following a string of food poisoning cases that arose among customers of the chain. The death toll from the cases reached three on May 4.

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Godzilla strikes in 10th for walk-off win

OAKLAND, United States - Oakland Athletics designated hitter Hideki Matsui (C) responds to cheers from fans after hitting a homer to give his team a 5-4, 10th-inning walk-off victory over the Texas Rangers at Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California, on May 2, 2011.

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Godzilla strikes in 10th for walk-off win

OAKLAND, United States - Oakland Athletics designated hitter Hideki Matsui (55) is received by his teammates after hitting a homer to give his team a 5-4, 10th-inning walk-off victory over the Texas Rangers at Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California, on May 2, 2011.

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U.S. sub in South Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - The inside of the U.S. Navy nuclear-powered submarine Michigan is shown to reporters as it called at Busan, South Korea, on May 2, 2011.

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U.S. sub in South Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - The U.S. Navy nuclear-powered submarine Michigan calls at Busan, South Korea, on May 2, 2011.

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ANA plane with message for Japan

NEW YORK, United States - A Boeing 777 of All Nippon Airways Co., bearing the message ''Forward together as one Japan,'' expressing hope for a quick recovery of the disaster-hit country, readies to take off from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport for Narita Airport, east of Tokyo, on May 2, 2011. ANA said it plans to use the aircraft on three routes -- Narita-New York, Narita-London and Narita-Frankfurt -- for the time being.

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Godzilla strikes in 10th for walk-off win

OAKLAND, United States - Oakland Athletics designated hitter Hideki Matsui hits a homer to give his team a 5-4, 10th-inning walk-off victory over the Texas Rangers at Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California, on May 2, 2011.

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U.S. sub in South Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - A man explains about torpedoes aboard the U.S. Navy nuclear-powered submarine Michigan as it called at Busan, South Korea, on May 2, 2011, and the inside was shown to reporters.

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Street leading to bin Laden's compound

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan - Police officers stand at the entrance of a street leading to a compound where Osama bin Laden had lived on May 2, 2011. The leader of the al-Qaida international terrorist network was killed by U.S. commandos in the predawn hours of the same day during a raid on the compound in the city of Abbottabad, 50 kilometers northeast of the Pakistani capital of Islamabad.

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Actor Watanabe visits evacuation center in Minamisanriku

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Japanese actor Ken Watanabe chats with a woman at an evacuation center in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 2, 2011, during his trip to the area to encourage people affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Watanabe, an internationally known star who has appeared in Hollywood movies, previously visited evacuees in Ishinomaki and the town of Onagawa, both in the prefecture, in April.

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Reconstruction panel head visits Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Makoto Iokibe (center R), head of the Japanese government's Reconstruction Design Council, visits Soma port in Fukushima Prefecture on May 2, 2011, to see the damage from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Iokibe is president of the National Defense Academy of Japan.

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Bin Laden killed in U.S. operation

TOKYO, Japan - A man watches TV screens reporting on the death of Osama bin Laden, the architect behind the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks against the United States, at an electronics store in Tokyo's Shimbashi district on May 2, 2011. Bin Laden, the leader of the terrorist network al-Qaida, was killed in Pakistan in a U.S. operation, U.S. President Barack Obama announced in Washington on May 1.

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Diet OKs 4 tril. yen extra budget for quake reconstruction

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan attends a session of the House of Councillors in Tokyo on May 2, 2011. The Diet enacted a 4.02 trillion yen extra budget for fiscal 2011 the same day, the first in a series of large emergency spending packages to fund reconstruction after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, as the upper house approved the budget and related bills. The supplementary budget and related bills were approved by the more powerful House of Representatives on April 30.

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Reconstruction panel chair Iokibe in Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Makoto Iokibe, president of the National Defense Academy of Japan, who heads the reconstruction advisory panel to Prime Minister Naoto Kan, speaks during a meeting with prefectural and municipal leaders in Fukushima on May 2, 2011, over the reconstruction of the disaster-hit areas.

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Yellow sand observed in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - The Tokyo sky becomes hazy on May 2, 2011, as yellow sand is observed across a wide area of Japan, and for the first time this year in the capital. The sand is believed to have been carried from deserts in China by westerly winds.