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Visitors to Tokyo Skytree complex top 100 million

TOKYO, Japan - Visitors to the Tokyo Skytree commercial complex pose for a commemorative photo as their number exceeded 100 million on Sept. 17, 2014, following its opening in May 2012. It was the 849th day since the world's tallest broadcasting tower at 634 meters opened on May 22, 2012, in Tokyo's Sumida Ward.

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Children plant trees in 2011 quake-hit area

YAMADA, Japan - Nursery school children plant young trees in the 2011 earthquake-hit town of Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on May 22, 2014. The trees were grown by kindergartners and nursery school children nationwide from the acorns picked up by children in the disaster-stricken areas in the fall of 2012.

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Tokyo Skytree

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Tokyo Skytree, the world's tallest broadcasting tower at 634 meters, on Dec. 6, 2013. The number of visitors to the observatory deck of the tower topped 10 million the same day since its opening on May 22, 2012.

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Wrongly imprisoned Nepali

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Govinda Prasad Mainali (L) holds his newly published autobiography in Kathmandu on May 22, 2013. The Nepali man was wrongly detained and imprisoned in Japan for 15 years. He was arrested on a charge of murdering a Japanese woman in 1997 and had his life imprisonment sentence finalized in 2003 before being cleared of the murder charge in a retrial in November 2012.

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Chinese tourists in Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Chinese tourists visit a lake in the Urabandai area of Fukushima Prefecture on May 22, 2012. They were part of the first tour group from the Chinese mainland to visit the prefecture since the March 2011 disaster.

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Chinese tourists in Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Chinese tourists pose for photos in front of Tsuruga Castle in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, on May 22, 2012. They were part of the first tour group from the Chinese mainland to visit the prefecture since the March 2011 disaster.

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Toyota to move output of Yaris to France from Japan

NEW YORK, United States - Photo shows the Yaris compact car. Toyota Motor Corp. said on June 22, 2012, that it will transfer production of Yaris models for the North American market from Japan to a plant in France in May 2013. In Japan, the Yaris is known as the Vitz.

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Classical music critic Hidekazu Yoshida dies at 98

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Hidekazu Yoshida (R), a Japanese classical music critic, receiving the Order of Culture from Emperor Akihito at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in November 2006. Yoshida died of acute heart failure on May 22, 2012, at his home in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture. He was 98.

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Classical music critic Hidekazu Yoshida dies at 98

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in Tokyo in December 2011 shows (from L) novelist Saiichi Maruya, classical music critic Hidekazu Yoshida and conductor Seiji Ozawa, chatting at a party to celebrate the awarding of the Order of Culture to Maruya. Yoshida died of acute heart failure on May 22, 2012, at his home in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture. He was 98.

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Classical music critic Hidekazu Yoshida dies at 98

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Hidekazu Yoshida, a Japanese classical music critic, during an interview at his home in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, in April 2009. Yoshida died of acute heart failure on May 22, 2012, at his home in the city. He was 98.

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Classical music critic Hidekazu Yoshida dies at 98

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in September 2009 shows Hidekazu Yoshida, a Japanese classical music critic. Yoshida died of acute heart failure on May 22, 2012, at his home in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture. He was 98.

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American to ship back items lost in tsunami to Japan

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows David (L) and Yumi Baxter in Kasilof, Alaska, on April 22, 2012. David holds a soccer ball and Yumi holds a volleyball found by David in mid-March 2012 on the coast of Middleton Island off Alaska, after the balls floated across the Pacific Ocean after being swept away from northeastern Japan in the March 2011 tsunami. The couple initially expressed their intention to deliver the items back to their original owners in person during their upcoming trip to Japan, but have now opted to ship them instead in consideration of the owners' privacy, David Baxter told Kyodo News on May 23, 2012.

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Chinese tourists affirm safety of Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Shohei Muroi (R), mayor of Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, gives to China's Spring Airlines Chairman Wang Zhenghua a small self-righting doll, a local lucky charm, in front of Tsuruga Castle in the city on May 22, 2012, the last day of a three-day tour of the prefecture by a group of nearly 40 people from mainland China. Many of the Chinese tourists support the view the area is a wonderful and safe place to visit, after seeing with their own eyes that life in many ways has returned to normal following the 2011 nuclear disaster.

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Japan, Pacific island leaders meet

TOKYO, Japan - Palau President Johnson Toribiong (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda meet at Noda's office in Tokyo on May 22, 2012. They plan to attend a two-day summit of Japan and the Pacific Islands Forum in Okinawa Prefecture from May 25.

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U.S. envoy in China

BEIJING, China - Glyn Davies, U.S. special representative for North Korea policy, answers reporters' questions in Beijing on May 22, 2012. The United States and China reaffirmed their cooperation to prevent North Korea from taking further provocative actions in the wake of its failed attempt in April to launch what it claims was a rocket-driven satellite.

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Japan, Pacific island leaders meet

TOKYO, Japan - Samoan Prime Minister Tuilaepa Lupesoliai Sailele Malielegao (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda meet at Noda's office in Tokyo on May 22, 2012. They plan to attend a two-day summit of Japan and the Pacific Islands Forum in Okinawa Prefecture from May 25.

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Japan, Pacific island leaders meet

TOKYO, Japan - Micronesian President Emanuel Mori (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda meet at Noda's office in Tokyo on May 22, 2012. They plan to attend a two-day summit of Japan and the Pacific Islands Forum in Okinawa Prefecture from May 25.

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Tokyo Skytree opens

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Skytree, the world's tallest broadcasting tower at 634 meters in Tokyo's Sumida Ward, is illuminated in purple on the night of May 22, 2012, its opening day. Sensoji temple can be seen in the foreground.

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Tokyo Skytree opens

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Skytree, the world's tallest broadcasting tower at 634 meters in Tokyo's Sumida Ward, is illuminated in blue on the night of May 22, 2012, its opening day. Sensoji temple can be seen in the foreground.

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Tokyo Skytree opens

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Skytree, the world's tallest broadcasting tower at 634 meters in Tokyo's Sumida Ward, is illuminated in purple on the night of May 22, 2012, its opening day.

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U.S. Navy begins 3-day landing practice at Atsugi base

YOKOHAMA, Japan - The U.S. Navy begins field carrier landing practice at the Naval Air Facility Atsugi in Kanagawa Prefecture on May 22, 2012, following a change in the deployment of the George Washington aircraft carrier.

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Tokyo Skytree opens

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Skytree, the world's tallest broadcasting tower at 634 meters in Tokyo's Sumida Ward, is illuminated in blue on the night of May 22, 2012, its opening day.

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Tokyo Skytree opens

TOKYO, Japan - Dolls of Sorakara-chan, the official mascot of Tokyo Skytree, the world's tallest broadcasting tower at 634 meters in Tokyo's Sumida Ward, are on sale at the facility on May 22, 2012, its opening day.

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Tokyo Skytree opens

TOKYO, Japan - Staff at Tokyo Skytree, the world's tallest broadcasting tower at 634 meters in Tokyo's Sumida Ward, take photos of visitors sitting next to a replica tower on one of the facility's two observation decks on May 22, 2012, its opening day.

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Tokyo Skytree opens

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the inside of an elevator at Tokyo Skytree, the world's tallest broadcasting tower at 634 meters in Tokyo's Sumida Ward, on May 22, 2012, its opening day.

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Tokyo Skytree opens

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows admission tickets to an observation deck at Tokyo Skytree, the world's tallest broadcasting tower at 634 meters in Tokyo's Sumida Ward, on May 22, 2012, its opening day.

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Tokyo Skytree opens

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows ''Sky Soft,'' a dessert on sale in a cafe on an observation deck of Tokyo Skytree, the world's tallest broadcasting tower at 634 meters in Tokyo's Sumida Ward, on May 22, 2012, its opening day.

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Tokyo Skytree opens

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the tip of Tokyo Skytree, the world's tallest broadcasting tower at 634 meters in Tokyo's Sumida Ward, on the night of May 22, 2012, its opening day.

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Comic character's hair plucked from its statue

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken May 22, 2012, shows the bronze statue of Namihei, a well known Japanese cartoon character of a man in his 50s, but without his trademark lone hair on top of his bald head, in the Sakurashimmachi area of Tokyo's Setagaya Ward. Someone plucked his hair made of wire in early May, and after local people fixed it using a spare hair, it disappeared again on May 20.

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Japan helps repair Kabul airport

KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan transport minister Daud Najafi (front L) and Japanese Ambassador to Afghanistan Reiichiro Takahashi (front R) hold shovels during a groundbreaking ceremony for taxiway improvement at Kabul airport on May 22, 2012, a project funded by Japan.

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Tokyo Skytree opens

TOKYO, Japan - Cruise boats float on the Sumida River as Tokyo Skytree (in background), the world's tallest broadcasting tower at 634 meters in Tokyo's Sumida Ward, is illuminated in blue on the night of May 22, 2012, its opening day.

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Tokyo Skytree opens

TOKYO, Japan - A ceremony is held to illuminate Tokyo Skytree, the world's tallest broadcasting tower at 634 meters in Tokyo's Sumida Ward, on the night of May 22, 2012, its opening day.

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Quake-tsunami debris blocked

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Protesters on May 22, 2012, are forcibly removed by police in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, from in front of a truck carrying debris left by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeast Japan. The protestors, citing fear of radiation, had sat in front of the truck to block delivery of the rubble to Kitakyushu for trial incineration.

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Quake-tsunami debris blocked

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Protesters on May 22, 2012, block the delivery for trial incineration in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, of debris from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeast Japan, by gathering around a truck carrying the rubble, while police officers and city officials try to persuade them to leave the site. The opponents cite fear of radiation.

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Global standards for electric vehicle chargers sought

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiyuki Shiga, president of the CHAdeMo Association promoting the Japan-developed CHAdeMO quick charging method for electric vehicles, and chief operating officer of Nissan Motor Co., speaks with reporters in Tokyo on May 22, 2012. He called for globally unified charging standards as Europe and China have proposed their own.

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Tokyo Skytree opens

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuhiro Morimoto smiles in front of a dish resembling Tokyo Skytree that he ordered at Soba Dokoro Kamimura, a Japanese restaurant near the world's tallest broadcasting tower at 634 meters in Tokyo's Sumida Ward, on May 22, 2012, its opening day. The 1,800-yen dish is a bowl of rice topped with deep-fried prawns and vegetables. The prawns are leaned against the bowl's lid to create a tower-like figure.

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8 babies left at 'baby hatch' in Kumamoto

KUMAMOTO, Japan - Taiji Hasuda, president of Jikei Hospital in Kumamoto, speaks at a press conference in the southwestern Japanese city on May 22, 2012. Eight infants were left during fiscal 2011 at the ''baby hatch'' facility for unwanted newborns set up at the hospital, the lowest number since it opened in May 2007, the Kumamoto city office said the same day.

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Quake-tsunami debris blocked

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Protesters on May 22, 2012, block the delivery for trial incineration in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, of debris from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeast Japan, by sitting in front of a truck carrying the rubble. The opponents cite fear of radiation.

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Tokyo Skytree opens

TOKYO, Japan - A group of high school students from Kanagawa Prefecture pose for photos in front of Tokyo Skytree, the world's tallest broadcasting tower at 634 meters in Tokyo's Sumida Ward, on May 22, 2012, its opening day.

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Tokyo Skytree opens

TOKYO, Japan - A woman takes a photo of Tokyo Skytree, the world's tallest broadcasting tower at 634 meters in Tokyo's Sumida Ward, on May 22, 2012, its opening day.

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Tokyo Skytree opens

TOKYO, Japan - Visitors view the landscape from a 350-meter-high observation floor at Tokyo Skytree, the world's tallest broadcasting tower at 634 meters, as it opened in Tokyo's Sumida Ward on May 22, 2012.

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Quake-tsunami debris blocked

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Protesters fly a banner reading, ''No to radioactive debris'' on May 22, 2012, as they block the delivery to Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, of debris left by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeast Japan for trial incineration.

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Tokyo Skytree opens

TOKYO, Japan - A tape-cutting ceremony is held in the rain for Tokyo Skytree Town, a commercial complex at the foot of Tokyo Skytree (back), the world's tallest broadcasting tower at 634 meters, in the capital's Sumida Ward on May 22, 2012. The tower also opened to the public the same day.

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Quake-tsunami debris blocked

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Protesters on May 22, 2012, block the delivery to Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, of debris left by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeast Japan for trial incineration. The opponents cite fear of radiation.

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Tokyo Skytree opens

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter at 8:31 a.m. on May 22, 2012, shows Tokyo Skytree, the world's tallest broadcasting tower at 634 meters, in Tokyo's Sumida Ward, prior to its opening the same day.

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Tokyo Skytree opens

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter at 8:31 a.m. on May 22, 2012, shows Tokyo Skytree, the world's tallest broadcasting tower at 634 meters, in Tokyo's Sumida Ward, prior to its opening the same day.

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Tokyo Skytree opens

TOKYO, Japan - A man with a hairstyle in the shape of Tokyo Skytree (back), the world's tallest broadcasting tower at 634 meters, visits Tokyo Skytree Town, a commercial complex at its foot, in Tokyo's Sumida Ward on May 22, 2012, prior to its opening the same day.

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Tokyo Skytree opens

TOKYO, Japan - People queue to enter observation floors of Tokyo Skytree (back), the world's tallest broadcasting tower at 634 meters, in Tokyo's Sumida Ward on May 22, 2012, prior to its opening the same day.

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Tokyo Sky Tree to be completed on Feb. 29

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Nov. 22, 2011, shows Tokyo Sky Tree in Tokyo's Sumida Ward. Construction of the world's tallest free-standing tower scheduled to open in May 2012 will be completed on Feb. 29, 2012, its operator said Feb. 7.

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6 months before the opening of Tokyo Sky Tree

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Nov. 22, 2011, shows Tokyo Sky Tree in Tokyo's Sumida Ward. The tower's operating company began accepting reservations for entrance tickets for groups of 25 people or more the same day, six months before the 634-meter broadcasting tower opens to the public on May 22, 2012.