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Lawyer meets ex-AUM cult member Hirata

TOKYO, Japan - Lawyer Taro Takimoto speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Jan. 2, 2012, after meeting with Makoto Hirata, a former leading member of the AUM Shinrikyo cult who turned himself in to police on Dec. 31. Takimoto said Hirata, 46, who had been on the wanted list since May 1995, thinks that AUM founder Shoko Asahara ''deserves the death penalty'' and that he does not believe in the cult anymore.

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Active carbon made from corn core capable of absorbing cesium

MORIOKA, Japan - Akira Sasaki, senior researcher at the environmental health research center of the Iwate prefectural government and from Iwate University, holds activated carbon made from corn cores in Morioka on May 2, 2012. A group of researchers at the center said they have found activated carbon made from corn cores is highly capable of absorbing cesium, raising expectations that it could be used to prevent cesium contamination of farm products in the wake of the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi complex.

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U.S.-Japan Foundation President Packard

NEW YORK, United States - George Packard, president of the U.S.-Japan Foundation, is interviewed by Kyodo News in New York on May 2, 2012. (Photo by Meg Maruyama)

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Engine for Mitsubishi Regional Jet

HARTFORD, United States - U.S. aircraft engine manufacture Pratt & Whitney unveils to the press a next-generation engine, mounted on a jumbo jet, that it developed for Japan's Mitsubishi Regional Jet, near Hartford, Connecticut on May 2, 2012.

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Chinese dissident in hospital after leaving U.S. Embassy

BEIJING, China - Photo taken on May 2, 2012, shows a hospital in Beijing, where Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng is believed to have arrived the same day to receive medical treatment after leaving the U.S. Embassy.

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Japanese, Jordanian foreign ministers

AMMAN, Jordan - Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba (L) and his Jordanian counterpart, Nasser Judeh, hold talks in Amman, the capital of Jordan, on May 2, 2012.

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Chinese dissident in hospital after leaving U.S. Embassy

BEIJING, China - Security police officers on May 2, 2012, prevent reporters from gathering in front of a hospital in Beijing, where Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng is believed to have arrived the same day to receive medical treatment after leaving the U.S. Embassy.

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Engine for Mitsubishi Regional Jet

HARTFORD, United States - U.S. aircraft engine manufacture Pratt & Whitney unveils to the press a next-generation engine, mounted on a jumbo jet, that it developed for Japan's Mitsubishi Regional Jet, near Hartford, Connecticut on May 2, 2012.

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Japan's Gemba, Palestine's Abbas

AMMAN, Jordan - Mahmoud Abbas (R), president of the Palestinian National Authority, holds talks with Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba in Amman, Jordan on May 2, 2012.

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Suu Kyi takes parliamentary oath

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi answers reporters' questions after attending a parliamentary session in the capital Naypyitaw for the first time on May 2, 2012, after her National League for Democracy's sweeping by-election victory a month ago. Suu Kyi and 38 NLD members took the parliamentary oath the same day after withdrawing their demand for the modification of wording that calls for lawmakers to ''protect'' the Constitution.

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Suu Kyi takes parliamentary oath

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (C) attends a parliamentary session in the capital Naypyitaw for the first time on May 2, 2012, after her National League for Democracy's sweeping by-election victory a month ago. Suu Kyi and 38 NLD members took the parliamentary oath the same day after withdrawing their demand for the modification of wording that calls for lawmakers to ''protect'' the Constitution.

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Suu Kyi takes parliamentary oath

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (C) enters parliament in the capital Naypyitaw for the first time on May 2, 2012, after her National League for Democracy's sweeping by-election victory a month ago. Suu Kyi and 38 NLD members took the parliamentary oath the same day after withdrawing their demand for the modification of wording that calls for lawmakers to ''protect'' the Constitution.

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Noda returns home from U.S. trip

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda arrives at Tokyo's Haneda airport on May 2, 2012, as he returns home from a three-day visit to Washington in the United States. During the visit, Noda held talks with U.S. President Barack Obama, becoming the first Japanese premier to formally meet with Obama in the U.S. capital since the Democratic Party of Japan took power in September 2009.

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ADB President Kuroda in Manila

MANILA, Philippines - Asian Development Bank President Haruhiko Kuroda holds a press conference in Manila on May 2, 2012. Kuroda said the bank has secured $12.4 billion to help Asia's poorest over the next four-year phase of its concessional development fund.

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Suu Kyi takes parliamentary oath

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi enters parliament in the capital Naypyitaw for the first time on May 2, 2012, after her National League for Democracy's sweeping by-election victory a month ago. Suu Kyi and 38 NLD members took the parliamentary oath the same day after withdrawing their demand for the modification of wording that calls for lawmakers to ''protect'' the Constitution.

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Suu Kyi takes parliamentary oath

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (C) enters parliament in the capital Naypyitaw for the first time on May 2, 2012, after her National League for Democracy's sweeping by-election victory a month ago. Suu Kyi and 38 NLD members took the parliamentary oath the same day after withdrawing their demand for the modification of wording that calls for lawmakers to ''protect'' the Constitution.

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Writers join anti-nuclear hunger strike

TOKYO, Japan - (From front R to L) writer Hisae Sawachi, novelist and Buddhist nun Jakucho Setouchi and writer Satoshi Kamata join a hunger strike on May 2, 2012, in front of the industry ministry in Tokyo in protest against the government's moves to restart idled reactors at the Oi nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture.

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Writers join anti-nuclear hunger strike

TOKYO, Japan - (From front R to L) writer Hisae Sawachi, novelist and Buddhist nun Jakucho Setouchi and writer Satoshi Kamata join a hunger strike on May 2, 2012, in front of the industry ministry in Tokyo in protest against the government's moves to restart idled reactors at the Oi nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture.

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Sand festival in Kagoshima

MINAMISATSUMA, Japan - Photo taken May 2, 2012, shows sculptures of sand of the Mouth of Truth (R) and other sightseeing spots in Rome to celebrate the movie ''Roman Holiday,'' on display as part of an annual sand festival in Minamisatsuma, Kagoshima Prefecture. The festival, which began the same day, showcases around 100 sculptures of sand from a local dune created by citizens and artists invited from abroad and featuring items and scenes from movies, plays and anime.

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Writers join anti-nuclear hunger strike

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) writer Satoshi Kamata, novelist and Buddhist nun Jakucho Setouchi and writer Hisae Sawachi join a hunger strike on May 2, 2012, in front of the industry ministry in Tokyo in protest against the government's moves to restart idled reactors at the Oi nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture.

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Sand festival in Kagoshima

MINAMISATSUMA, Japan - Photo taken May 2, 2012, shows a sculpture of sand of dancers from a musical on Broadway, New York, on display as part of an annual sand festival in Minamisatsuma, Kagoshima Prefecture. The festival, which began the same day, showcases around 100 sculptures of sand from a local dune created by citizens and artists invited from abroad and featuring items and scenes from movies, plays and anime.

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Physicist Tonomura dies at 70

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in August 2006 shows Japanese physicist Akira Tonomura. A fellow at electronics giant Hitachi Ltd. tipped as a future Nobel Prize winner for years, Tonomura died of pancreatic cancer early on May 2, 2012, at a hospital in Hidaka, Saitama Prefecture. He was 70. Tonomura was known for developing electron holography for observing microscopic structures in matter using the wave nature of electrons and confirming the so-called Aharonov-Bohm effect, the existence of which had long been disputed among physicists.

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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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Tokyo Sky Tree completion ceremony

TOKYO, Japan - A Shinto ceremony to mark the completion of Tokyo Sky Tree is held inside the tower in Tokyo's Sumida Ward on March 2, 2012. The 634-meter tower, the world's tallest, completed on Feb. 29, will open to the general public on May 22.