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Aquino explains backing for Japan's new self-defense policy

TOKYO, Japan - Philippine President Benigno Aquino meets delegates from the Japan National Press Club at the presidential palace in Manila on Nov. 4, 2014. During the meeting, Aquino said he backs the Japanese government's reinterpretation of the Japanese Constitution to allow the exercise of the right of collective self-defense because of the situation Filipino peacekeepers in the Golan Heights have encountered since 2013.

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Monk follows Kukai's footsteps for 30 yrs

OSAKA, Japan - Jien Shizuka, a monk from Mt. Koya in Wakayama Prefecture, speaks about pilgrimages to China he has made for 30 years to follow the footsteps of Japanese monk Kukai, during an interview on Nov. 4, 2013. Mt. Koya is Japan's headquarters of the Shingon sect of esoteric Buddhism founded by Kukai in the early ninth century.

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Ex-baseball commissioner Negoro dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in August 2007 in Tokyo shows Yasuchika Negoro, then acting commissioner of Nippon Professional Baseball. Negoro, a former NPB commissioner who took the post after retiring as head of the Tokyo High Public Prosecutors' Office, died of lung cancer at a Tokyo hospital on Nov. 4, 2013, the Justice Ministry said Nov. 8. He was 81.

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China activist at U.N.

NEW YORK, United States - Chinese civil rights activist Chen Guangcheng speaks at the United Nations in New York on Nov. 4, 2013. He made an appeal that China should not be elected to the Human Rights Council at a vote in the General Assembly later in the month.

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Soyuz spacecraft

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - A Soyuz rocket, painted with a design celebrating the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics in Russia, is taken out of an assembly plant to be carried to the launch pad in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on Nov. 4, 2013. The rocket contains a spacecraft to bring three astronauts, as well as a Sochi Olympic torch, to the International Space Station later in the month.

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Soyuz spacecraft

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - A Soyuz rocket, painted with a design celebrating the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics in Russia, is taken out of an assembly plant to be carried to the launch pad in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on Nov. 4, 2013. The rocket contains a spacecraft to bring three astronauts, as well as a Sochi Olympic torch, to the International Space Station later in the month.

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Soyuz spacecraft

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - A Soyuz rocket, painted with a design celebrating the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics in Russia, is taken out of an assembly plant to be carried to the launch pad in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on Nov. 4, 2013. The rocket contains a spacecraft to bring three astronauts, as well as a Sochi Olympic torch, to the International Space Station later in the month.

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Vietnam premier

HANOI, Vietnam - Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung is pictured during an interview with Kyodo News in Hanoi on Nov. 4, 2013. Dung pledged to work closely with other member countries negotiating a trans-Pacific free trade deal in order to complete the negotiations before the end of 2013.

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Photo exhibition of VNA, Kyodo

HANOI, Vietnam - An opening ceremony is held for a photo exhibition co-sponsored by Vietnam News Agency and Kyodo News in Hanoi on Nov. 4, 2013. The exhibition, marking the Vietnam-Japan Friendship Year and the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries, features some 80 photographs under the central theme "Vietnam and Japan: Together to a New Horizon."

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China's top nuclear envoy arrives in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - China's top nuclear envoy Wu Dawei (L) arrives at Pyongyang's international airport on Nov. 4, 2013. Wu chairs long-stalled six-party negotiations aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear weapons program.

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Anti-U.S. rally in Iran

TEHRAN, Iran - An anti-U.S. rally is held in Tehran, Iran, on Nov. 4, 2013, the anniversary of the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in which Americans were taken hostage.

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Vietnam premier

HANOI, Vietnam - Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung is pictured during an interview with Kyodo News in Hanoi on Nov. 4, 2013. Dung pledged to work closely with other member countries negotiating a trans-Pacific free trade deal in order to complete the negotiations before the end of 2013.

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China's top nuclear envoy arrives in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - China's top nuclear envoy Wu Dawei arrives at Pyongyang's international airport on Nov. 4, 2013. Wu chairs long-stalled six-party negotiations aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear weapons program.

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Anti-U.S. rally in Iran

TEHRAN, Iran - An anti-U.S. rally is held in Tehran, Iran, on Nov. 4, 2013, the anniversary of the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in which Americans were taken hostage.

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Office for Japan-N. Korea sports exchange

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Ma Chol Su (L), a former director of Asian affairs at the North Korean Foreign Ministry, and Japanese lawmaker Antonio Inoki shake hands after they signed an agreement on the opening of an office to facilitate exchanges between Japan and North Korea through sports in Pyongyang on Nov. 4, 2013. Ma serves as secretary general of a friendship association between the two countries.

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Office for Japan-N. Korea sports exchange

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Japanese lawmaker Antonio Inoki points to a plate inscribed with the name of an office to facilitate exchanges between Japan and North Korea through sports in Pyongyang on Nov. 4, 2013, as a nonprofit organization headed by Inoki opened the office.

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Ando inches toward Sochi Games

MAEBASHI, Japan - Two-time women's world champion Miki Ando performs in the women's free program at the Eastern Japan Figure Skating Championships in Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture on Nov. 4, 2013. Ando finished second overall to earn a spot in December's national championships, which will be used to select Japan's figure skating squad for the Sochi Games in February.

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Air pollution alert in Chiba Pref.

TOKYO, Japan - Junior high school students wear masks as they practice dancing in Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture, on Nov. 4, 2013. The prefecture just east of Tokyo warned its residents the same day not to go outside as the toxic air pollutant PM2.5 could exceed the limit set in national provisional guidelines.

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Ando inches toward Sochi Games

MAEBASHI, Japan - Two-time women's world champion Miki Ando performs in the women's free program at the Eastern Japan Figure Skating Championships in Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture on Nov. 4, 2013. Ando finished second overall to earn a spot in December's national championships, which will be used to select Japan's figure skating squad for the Sochi Games in February.

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Ando inches toward Sochi Games

MAEBASHI, Japan - Two-time women's world champion Miki Ando performs in the women's free program at the Eastern Japan Figure Skating Championships in Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture on Nov. 4, 2013. Ando finished second overall to earn a spot in December's national championships, which will be used to select Japan's figure skating squad for the Sochi Games in February.

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Celebration for Eagles' 1st baseball title

SENDAI, Japan - People line up in front of department store Fujisaki Co.'s Sendai flagship in Miyagi Prefecture before its opening on Nov. 4, 2013. The department store held sales to celebrate the Sendai-based Rakuten Eagles' clinching of their first Japan Series championship in professional baseball the previous day.

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Celebration for Eagles' 1st baseball title

SENDAI, Japan - Employees at the Sendai Mitsukoshi department store in Miyagi Prefecture split a "kusudama" ball, releasing a congratulatory banner and colorful streamers, on Nov. 4, 2013, prior to holding a sales event to celebrate the Sendai-based Rakuten Eagles' clinching of their first Japan Series championship in professional baseball the previous day.

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Celebration for Eagles' 1st baseball title

SENDAI, Japan - Photo shows a ring with a star ruby surrounded by diamonds with a price tag of 10.01 million yen on Nov. 4, 2013, displayed as an eye-catcher item at department store Fujisaki Co.'s Sendai flagship in Miyagi Prefecture, where sales were held to celebrate the Sendai-based Rakuten Eagles' clinching of their first Japan Series championship in professional baseball the previous day. The number "1,001" in the price tag can be read in the same way as the first name of Eagles manager Senichi Hoshino.