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Myanmar's 1988 uprising leader speaks in Yangon

TOKYO, Japan - Min Ko Naing, the student leader of the 1988 prodemocracy movement in Myanmar, speaks at a press conference in Yangon in January 2012. He arrived in Japan for the first time on Nov. 28, 2014.

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Irish veterinarian cracks open Japan racing circles

SAPPORO, Japan - Harry Sweeney, owner of Paca Paca Farm, checks on Love And Bubbles, mare of the Japanese Derby winner Deep Brillante, at his farm in Hidaka, Hokkaido on Nov. 28, 2012.

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Irish veterinarian cracks open Japan racing circles

SAPPORO, Japan - Harry Sweeney, owner of Paca Paca Farm, kisses Love And Bubbles, mare of the Japanese Derby winner Deep Brillante, at his farm in Hidaka, Hokkaido on Nov. 28, 2012.

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Tibetans in China

BEIJING, China - A monk stands at a Tibetan Buddhist temple in northwestern China's Qinghai Province on Nov. 28, 2012.

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Tibetans in China

BEIJING, China - A woman puts her hands together in prayer at a Tibetan Buddhist temple in northwestern China's Qinghai Province on Nov. 28, 2012.

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Tibetans in China

BEIJING, China - A monk passes by a Chinese sign at a Tibetan Buddhist temple in northwestern China's Qinghai Province on Nov. 28, 2012.

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Tibetans in China

BEIJING, China - An image of Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, stored on a mobile phone, is shown by a monk at a Tibetan Buddhist temple in northwestern China's Qinghai Province on Nov. 28, 2012.

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Los Angeles Auto Show

LOS ANGELES, United States - General Motors Co. shows to the press its Chevrolet Spark electric vehicle at the Los Angeles Auto Show on Nov. 28, 2012. The Chevrolet Spark runs only on an electric motor, unlike the Chevrolet Volt hybrid propelled by both a motor and gasoline engine.

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Los Angeles Auto Show

LOS ANGELES, United States - Toyota Motor Corp. takes the wraps off the all-new RAV4 sport utility vehicle at the Los Angeles Auto Show on Nov. 28, 2012.

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Kiyotake scores

NUREMBERG, Germany - Nuremberg teammates congratulate Hiroshi Kiyotake (C) after scoring during a game against Hoffenheim in Nuremburg, Germany, on Nov. 28, 2012. Nuremberg won 4-2 to move away from the Bundesliga drop zone.

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Japan Best Dresser award recipients

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Nov. 28, 2012 in Tokyo shows recipients of the 41st Best Dresser Award. Third from R is singer Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, who attended the award ceremony wearing a fake moustache.

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106-year-old gets special 'Best Dresser' award

TOKYO, Japan - Saburo Shochi, a 106-year-old academic who has been recognized by Guinness World Records as the oldest person to have traveled around the world using public transportation, receives a special "Best Dresser" award at a ceremony for the 41st Best Dresser Award held in Tokyo on Nov. 28, 2012. Shochi is an educator and professor emeritus at Fukuoka University of Education.

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Tokyo gubernatorial election

TOKYO, Japan - Shigefumi Matsuzawa, a former governor of Kanagawa Prefecture, speaks as a candidate for the Tokyo gubernatorial election at a joint press conference with other candidates at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Nov. 28, 2012, before official campaigning for the Dec. 16 election begins the following day.

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Tokyo gubernatorial election

TOKYO, Japan - Takashi Sasagawa, a retired lawmaker who formerly headed the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party's General Council, speaks as a candidate for the Tokyo gubernatorial election at a joint press conference with other candidates at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Nov. 28, 2012, before official campaigning for the Dec. 16 election begins the following day.

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Tokyo gubernatorial election

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Vice Gov. Naoki Inose speaks as a candidate for the Tokyo gubernatorial election at a joint press conference with other candidates at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Nov. 28, 2012, before official campaigning for the Dec. 16 election begins the following day.

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Tokyo gubernatorial election

TOKYO, Japan - Kenji Utsunomiya, former president of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, speaks as a candidate for the Tokyo gubernatorial election at a joint press conference with other candidates at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Nov. 28, 2012, before official campaigning for the Dec. 16 election begins the following day.

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Tokyo gubernatorial election

TOKYO, Japan - Candidates for the Tokyo gubernatorial election -- (from L) Shigefumi Matsuzawa, a former governor of adjacent Kanagawa Prefecture, Kenji Utsunomiya, former president of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, Tokyo Vice Gov. Naoki Inose and Takashi Sasagawa, a retired lawmaker who formerly headed the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party's General Council -- hold a joint press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Nov. 28, 2012, before official campaigning for the Dec. 16 election begins the following day.

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Tokyo gubernatorial election

TOKYO, Japan - Candidates for the Tokyo gubernatorial election -- (from L) Shigefumi Matsuzawa, a former governor of adjacent Kanagawa Prefecture, Kenji Utsunomiya, former president of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, Tokyo Vice Gov. Naoki Inose and Takashi Sasagawa, a retired lawmaker who formerly headed the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party's General Council -- hold a joint press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Nov. 28, 2012, before official campaigning for the Dec. 16 election begins the following day.

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Tokyo gubernatorial election

TOKYO, Japan - Candidates for the Tokyo gubernatorial election -- (from L) Shigefumi Matsuzawa, a former governor of adjacent Kanagawa Prefecture, Kenji Utsunomiya, former president of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, Tokyo Vice Gov. Naoki Inose and Takashi Sasagawa, a retired lawmaker who formerly headed the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party's General Council -- join hands at a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Nov. 28, 2012, before official campaigning for the Dec. 16 election begins the following day.

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Antinuclear power party

TOKYO, Japan - Tetsunari Iida, acting leader of Nippon Mirai no To (Japan Future Party), answers reporters' questions in Tokyo on Nov. 28, 2012, after submitting an application to formally register a group of Shiga Gov. Yukiko Kada, which calls for the gradual phasing out of nuclear power, as a political party, ahead of the Dec. 16, 2012, general election.

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Power outage in Hokkaido

SAPPORO, Japan - People spend time at an evacuation shelter in Noboribetsu, Hokkaido, on Nov. 28, 2012, as their household heating equipment has been paralyzed since the previous day by a power outage caused by a snowstorm.

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Antinuclear power party

OTSU, Japan - Shiga Gov. Yukiko Kada speaks with reporters in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, on Nov. 28, 2012. The governor formally launched her new political party, Nippon Mirai no To (Japan Future Party), earlier in the day, which calls for the gradual phasing out of nuclear power, ahead of the Dec. 16, 2012, general election.

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Antinuclear power party

OTSU, Japan - Shiga Gov. Yukiko Kada speaks with reporters in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, on Nov. 28, 2012. The governor formally launched her new political party, Nippon Mirai no To (Japan Future Party), earlier in the day, which calls for the gradual phasing out of nuclear power, ahead of the Dec. 16, 2012, general election.

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JAL to serve KFC meals on some int'l flights

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in Tokyo on Nov. 28, 2012, shows Kentucky Fried Chicken dishes that Japan Airlines Co. said the same day it will serve on some of its international flights to U.S. and European destinations for three months starting Dec. 1.

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5 bodies found in boat marked with Hangul characters

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter in the city of Sado, Niigata Prefecture, on Nov. 28, 2012, shows police officers examining a wooden boat that washed up on rocks by a beach on Sado Island in the Sea of Japan. Five bodies were found in the morning of that day in the boat marked with Hangul characters.

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Antinuclear power party

OTSU, Japan - Shiga Gov. Yukiko Kada speaks with reporters in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, on Nov. 28, 2012. The governor formally launched her new political party, Nippon Mirai no To (Japan Future Party), earlier in the day, which calls for the gradual phasing out of nuclear power, ahead of the Dec. 16, 2012, general election.

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5 bodies found in boat marked with Hangul characters

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter in the city of Sado, Niigata Prefecture, on Nov. 28, 2012, shows police officers examining a wooden boat that washed up on rocks by a beach on Sado Island in the Sea of Japan. Five bodies were found in the morning of that day in the boat marked with Hangul characters.

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5 bodies found in boat marked with Hangul characters

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter in the city of Sado, Niigata Prefecture, on Nov. 28, 2012, shows police officers examining a wooden boat that washed up on rocks by a beach on Sado Island in the Sea of Japan. Five bodies were found in the morning of that day in the boat marked with Hangul characters.

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Narita airport opponents' hut

TOKYO, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows workers beginning to remove a hut used by opponents of Narita International Airport at a site close to the airport near Tokyo on Nov. 28, 2012. A court ordered the removal of a pair of huts that had been occupied for decades by the anti-airport campaigners.

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Train malfunction

TOKYO, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows passengers moving from a train to elevated tracks of the JR Keiyo Line in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture, on Nov. 28, 2012. A malfunction caused the train to stall on the tracks, forcing some 1,500 passengers to walk along the tracks for about 1 kilometer, according to its operator East Japan Railway Co., or JR East.

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Anti-nuclear power party

OTSU, Japan - Shiga Gov. Yukiko Kada is surrounded by reporters in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, on Nov. 28, 2012. The governor announced the previous day her plan to form a new party, Nippon Mirai no To (Japan Future Party), calling for the gradual phasing out of nuclear power, ahead of the Dec. 16, 2012, general election.

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Train malfunction

TOKYO, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows passengers moving from a train to elevated tracks of the JR Keiyo Line in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture, on Nov. 28, 2012. A malfunction caused the train to stall on the tracks, forcing some 1,500 passengers to walk along the tracks for about 1 kilometer, according to its operator East Japan Railway Co., or JR East.

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Anti-nuclear power party

OTSU, Japan - Shiga Gov. Yukiko Kada is surrounded by reporters in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, on Nov. 28, 2012. The governor announced the previous day her plan to form a new party, Nippon Mirai no To (Japan Future Party), calling for the gradual phasing out of nuclear power, ahead of the Dec. 16, 2012, general election.

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Anti-nuclear power party

OTSU, Japan - Shiga Gov. Yukiko Kada is surrounded by reporters in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, on Nov. 28, 2012. The governor announced the previous day her plan to form a new party, Nippon Mirai no To (Japan Future Party), calling for the gradual phasing out of nuclear power, ahead of the Dec. 16, 2012, general election.

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Narita airport opponents' hut

TOKYO, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows police and opponents of Narita International Airport facing off over a hut (top L) used by the campaigners at a site close to the airport near Tokyo on Nov. 28, 2012. Workers began carrying out a court order to remove a pair of huts that had been occupied for decades by the anti-airport campaigners.

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Narita airport opponents' hut

TOKYO, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a hut (marked by an arrow) used by opponents of Narita International Airport (top) in a site close to the airport near Tokyo on Nov. 28, 2012. Workers began carrying out a court order to remove huts that had been occupied for decades by the anti-airport campaigners.

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Sharp 90-inch display

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows Sharp Corp.'s 90-inch liquid crystal display for digital signage. Sharp said on Nov. 22, 2012, it will release the display that is capable of showing a person at full height. The display, measuring 2 meters by 1.2 meters, is the first of its kind for use mainly by businesses and will go on sale on Jan. 28, 2013, for a price of around 2.6 million yen.

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Durban climate talks open

DURBAN, South Africa - South African President Jacob Zuma (L) and Christiana Figueres (R), executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, attend annual talks in Durban, South Africa, on Nov. 28, 2011, to discuss the fight against climate change, with differences remaining between rich and developing countries. The biggest issue facing the 17th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP17, is how to avoid a so-called blank period following the expiration in December 2012 of current binding targets for developed countries' greenhouse gas emissions.

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Durban climate talks open

DURBAN, South Africa - An opening ceremony is held as delegates from nearly 200 countries started annual talks in Durban, South Africa, on Nov. 28, 2011, to discuss the fight against climate change, with differences remaining between rich and developing countries. The biggest issue facing the 17th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP17, is how to avoid a so-called blank period following the expiration in December 2012 of current binding targets for developed countries' greenhouse gas emissions.

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Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Deputy Pres. Kitamura

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. Deputy President Kunitaro Kitamura. Kitamura is expected to succeed company President Kazuo Tanabe in April 2012, company sources said Nov. 28, 2011.