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Volunteers join search for people missing in 2011 tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Volunteers comb a coastline in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on Oct. 11, 2014, in search of human remains, personal belongings and other items related to missing victims of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that hit northeastern Japan. As of Oct. 10, 2,594 people remain missing in Fukushima, Iwate and Miyagi prefectures as a result of the disaster.

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Police continue search for people missing in 2011 tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Police officers comb a coastal area in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on Oct. 11, 2014, in search of human remains, personal belongings and other items related to missing victims of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that hit northeastern Japan. As of Oct. 10, 2,549 people remain missing in Fukushima, Iwate and Miyagi prefectures as a result of the disaster.

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Fair held in Osaka to promote delicacies from quake-hit region

OSAKA, Japan - A man offers to serve a product at a fair held in the Umeda commercial district of Osaka, western Japan, on Oct. 10, 2014, to promote delicacies from six prefectures in the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku, most of which was hit by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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1964 Tokyo Olympic cauldron removed

TOKYO, Japan - The 1964 Tokyo Olympics cauldron at the National Stadium in Tokyo is removed by crane on Oct. 10, 2014, for transfer to the March 2011 disaster-hit city of Ishinomaki. The stadium will be demolished prior to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

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1964 Tokyo Olympic cauldron removed

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Oct. 10 shows workers preparing for the removal of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics cauldron at the National Stadium in Tokyo. The Olympic cauldron, a symbol of Japan's postwar reconstruction, will be transferred to the March 2011 disaster-hit city of Ishinomaki as the stadium will be demolished prior to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

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1964 Tokyo Olympic cauldron removed

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken on the Oct. 10, 1964, shows the final torch bearer Yoshinori Sakai after lighting the Olympic Torch during the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony at the National Stadium in Tokyo. The Olympic cauldron, a symbol of Japan's postwar reconstruction, will be transferred to the March 2011 disaster-hit city of Ishinomaki as the stadium will be demolished prior to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Sakai passed away in September at the age of 69.

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Osaka, Kansai airports

OSAKA, Japan - Combined file photos taken on Oct. 10, 2011, show Kansai International Airport (top) and Osaka airport in western Japan.

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Mizuho Bank scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Satoru Nishibori, a former president of Mizuho Bank, answers reporters' questions in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, on Oct. 10, 2013. Nishibori admitted he was informed in January 2011 of the bank's lending to organized crime groups, saying he at least made efforts to eliminate the problem.

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World Bank president in disaster area

SENDAI, Japan - World Bank President Jim Yong Kim visits an elementary school in Sendai, northeastern Japan, on Oct. 10, 2012, which was struck by the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. Kim was in Sendai to attend an international conference on disasters and development hosted by Japan and the World Bank.

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Global leaders visit Sendai disaster-hit areas

SENDAI, Japan - (From R, front) International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim and Japanese Finance Minister Koriki Jojima stand on the rooftop of an elementary school that survived destruction in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in the Arahama coastal district of Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Oct. 10, 2012, during their visit to sites in disaster-hit areas.

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N. Korea's Kim Jong Il

BEIJING, China - North Korean leader Kim Jong Il waves while reviewing a military parade marking the 65th anniversary of the founding of the ruling Workers Party of Korea in Pyongyang on Oct. 10, 2010. North Korea announced Dec. 19, 2011, through its official Korean Central News Agency that Kim Jong Il had died two days earlier at the age of 69.

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N. Korea's Kim Jong Il

BEIJING, China - North Korean leader Kim Jong Il (R) walks off after reviewing a military parade marking the 65th anniversary of the founding of the ruling Workers Party of Korea in Pyongyang on Oct. 10, 2010. To the left is the leader's third son Kim Jong Un. North Korea announced Dec. 19, 2011, through its official Korean Central News Agency that Kim Jong Il had died two days earlier at the age of 69.

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N. Korea's Kim Jong Il

TOKYO, Japan - North Korean leader Kim Jong Il (L) walks off after reviewing a military parade marking the 65th anniversary of the founding of the ruling Workers Party of Korea in Pyongyang on Oct. 10, 2010. To the right is Kim's third son Kim Jong Un. North Korea announced Dec. 19, 2011, through its official Korean Central News Agency that Kim Jong Il had died two days earlier at the age of 69.

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N. Korea's Kim Jong Il

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Oct. 10, 2010, shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Il (L) and Kim Jong Un (R), a son of Jong Il, reviewing a military parade marking the 65th anniversary of the founding of the ruling Workers Party of Korea in Pyongyang. North Korea announced Dec. 19, 2011, through its official Korean Central News Agency that Kim Jong Il died on Dec. 17, 2011, at the age of 69.

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Japan steps into currency market

TOKYO, Japan - An electronic display board at an online forex trading broker's office in Tokyo shows the dollar having shot up against the yen on Oct. 31, 2011, due to the yen-selling intervention by Japanese authorities. The Japanese Finance Ministry said the intervention was conducted at 10:25 a.m. after the dollar dropped to a fresh postwar low of 75.32 yen in Oceanian trading earlier in the day.

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Japan steps into currency market

TOKYO, Japan - An electronic display board in the Marunouchi business district in central Tokyo shows the dollar trade at the lower 79 yen range at 11:34 a.m. on Oct. 31, 2011, following the yen-selling intervention by Japanese authorities. The Japanese Finance Ministry said the intervention was conducted at 10:25 a.m. after the dollar dropped to a fresh postwar low of 75.32 yen in Oceanian trading earlier in the day.

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EFSF's Regling in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Klaus Regling (C), chief executive officer of the European Financial Stability Facility, heads for a meeting with Japan's Vice Finance Minister for International Affairs Takehiko Nakao on Oct. 31, 2011, at the Finance Ministry in Tokyo. Regling said after the meeting that Nakao assured him of Tokyo's continued purchase of rescue bonds issued by the eurozone bailout fund in ''the same way as the last 10 months.''

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Excavation of Koguryo tomb in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Photo taken Oct. 10, 2011, shows the Kosan-dong No. 1 tomb, one of the Koguryo tombs, in Pyongyang, North Korea, dating back to the early sixth century during the Koguryo dynasty, which was recently excavated by a team of Japanese and North Korean researchers after being first unearthed in 1936. North Korea may file an application with the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization for the No. 1 and two other tombs to be recognized as World Heritage sites.

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Freese's walk-off homer sends World Series to Game 7

ST. LOUIS, United States - David Freese of the St. Louis Cardinals rounds first base after blasting a walk-off home run in the 11th inning of Game 6 in the World Series against the Texas Rangers at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri, on Oct. 27, 2011. The third baseman tied the game in the ninth with a two-run triple and hit the walk-off homer for the Cardinals to win the thriller 10-9, sending the series to Game 7 on Oct. 28 in St. Louis.

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Ex-chairman of Daio Paper Ikawa

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Mototaka Ikawa, former chairman of Daio Paper Corp. The company vowed Oct. 28, 2011, that it will lodge a criminal complaint against Ikawa over dubious loans to him exceeding 10 billion yen from Daio group firms.

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Cardinals even World Series 3-3

ST. LOUIS, United States - Texas Rangers' Mike Napoli hits an RBI single during the fourth inning of Game 6 of the World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri, on Oct. 27, 2011. Cardinals won 10-9 in 11 innings, tying the World Series 3-3.

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Cardinals even World Series 3-3

ST. LOUIS, United States - Texas Rangers pitcher Colby Lewis starts in Game 6 of the World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri, on Oct. 27, 2011. The Cardinals won 10-9 in 11 innings, tying the World Series 3-3.

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Cardinals even World Series 3-3

ST. LOUIS, United States - St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Jaime Garcia starts in Game 6 of the World Series against the Texas Rangers at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri, on Oct. 27, 2011. The Cardinals won 10-9 in 11 innings, tying the World Series 3-3.

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Cardinals even World Series 3-3

ST. LOUIS, United States - St. Louis Cardinals' Lance Berkman hits a two-run home run during the first inning of Game 6 of the World Series against the Texas Rangers at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri, on Oct. 27, 2011. The Cardinals won 10-9 in 11 innings, tying the World Series 3-3.

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Kirin's beer-flavored drink logs 10 bil.-unit sales

TOKYO, Japan - Kirin Brewery Co. President Koichi Matsuzawa (L) and comedian Tomomitsu Yamaguchi (R) attend an event in Tokyo on Oct. 25, 2011 to commemorate cumulative sales of Kirin's Nodogoshi Nama brand of beer-flavored drink surpassing 10 billion units in terms of 350-milliliter cans since its launch in April 2005. Yamaguchi appears in the product's TV commercials.

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Ancient Korean archives returned home

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (L front) and South Korean President Lee Myung Bak (3rd from R) look at ancient Korean archives displayed at the Blue House presidential office in Seoul on Oct. 19, 2011. Noda handed over to Lee five volumes of the archives the same day. The five are part of 1,205 volumes of books that Japan and South Korea had agreed to be transferred to South Korea by Dec. 10, 2011, as they were taken to Japan during its 1910-1945 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Fukushima assembly calls for decommissioning local reactors

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - The Fukushima prefectural assembly adopts on Oct. 20, 2011, a petition calling for decommissioning all 10 reactors at the prefecture's two nuclear power plants in the aftermath of the nuclear disaster at one of them following the March earthquake and tsunami.

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Ancient Korean archives returned home

SEOUL, South Korea - Ancient Korean archives are displayed at the Blue House presidential office in Seoul on Oct. 19, 2011. Visiting Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda handed over to South Korean President Lee Myung Bak five volumes of the archives the same day. The five are part of 1,205 volumes of books that Japan and South Korea had agreed to be transferred to South Korea by Dec. 10, 2011, as they were taken to Japan during its 1910-1945 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.

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Ancient Korean archives returned home

SEOUL, South Korea - Photo shows one of the five volumes of ancient Korean archives on display at the Blue House presidential office in Seoul on Oct. 19, 2011. Visiting Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda handed over to South Korean President Lee Myung Bak the archives the same day. The five are part of 1,205 volumes of books that Japan and South Korea had agreed to be transferred to South Korea by Dec. 10, 2011, as they were taken to Japan during its 1910-1945 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.

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Dragons win CL title

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Players toss manager Hiromitsu Ochiai into the air after a 10-inning, 3-3 tie with the Yokohama BayStars at Yokohama Stadium in Yokohama on Oct. 18, 2011, as the Dragons took their second consecutive Central League baseball title.

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Nagano man sets new record for calculating value of pi

NAGANO, Japan - Shigeru Kondo (front) holds his Guinness World Record certificate in Iida, Nagano Prefecture, on Oct. 16, 2011, awarded for calculating the value of pi to 10 trillion digits using a self-made personal computer, beating the previous record of five trillion digits he set in August 2010. Standing behind him is his wife Yukiko.

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Astronaut Furukawa communicates with Tohoku children

OTSUCHI, Japan - An elementary school student (L) in the quake- and tsunami-hit town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, speaks with Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa aboard the International Space Station via radio on Oct. 15, 2011. Sixteen students from five elementary schools in the town participated in the event, chatting with the astronaut for about 10 minutes.

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Japanese rock singer, guitarist Yanagi dies

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in June 1998 shows Japanese rock singer and guitarist George Yanagi. He died of kidney failure on Oct. 10, 2011, his family said Oct. 14. He was 63.

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Bhutan awaits royal wedding

THIMPHU, Bhutan - A woman in a stationery shop in Thimphu, the capital of Bhutan, shows a calendar marking the wedding of the country's king, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, and Jetsun Pema, sold in the shop on Oct. 10, 2011. The royal wedding was scheduled to be held on Oct. 13.

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Cards' big win ties NLCS

MILWAUKEE, United States - Albert Pujols of the St. Louis Cardinals rips a two-run homer in the first inning in Game 2 of the National League Championship Series against the Milwaukee Brewers at Miller Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Oct. 10, 2011. Pujols went 4-for-5 with 5 RBIs in a 12-3 victory for St. Louis. The best-of-seven league championship series is tied at one game apiece.

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Election in Poland

WARSAW, Poland - Janusz Palikot (R), Polish parliamentary member and head of the political party Palikot's Movement, speaks to reporters in Warsaw on Oct. 10, 2011. The party took third place in a parliamentary election on Oct. 9, which the ruling party Civic Platform won.

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IAEA team inspects elementary school

DATE, Japan - Date Mayor Shoji Nishida (far R) explains to a team of experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency about the decontamination work implemented at an elementary school in the Fukushima Prefecture city in the wake of the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, in Date on Oct. 10, 2011.

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Edano in Saudi Arabia

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Nuaimi (front L) and Japanese Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Yukio Edano shake hands in Riyadh on Oct. 10, 2011. Edano agreed to boost bilateral cooperation with Saudi Arabia in a wide range of fields including renewable energy and energy saving.

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Cruz's walk-off grand slam lifts Rangers over Tigers

ARLINGTON, United States - Texas Rangers right fielder Nelson Cruz hits the first walk-off grand slam in postseason history in the 11th inning in Game 2 of the American League Championship Series against the Detroit Tigers at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Texas, on Oct. 10, 2011. Cruz went deep twice in a 7-3 victory and Texas took a 2-0 lead over Detroit in the best-of-seven league championship series.

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PM Noda in Gunma Pref.

ISESAKI, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (C) speaks with reporters in Isesaki, Gunma Prefecture on Oct. 10, 2011. He said the government will come up with a conclusion on whether to join the trans-Pacific free trade talks at an early date after launching formal discussions on the matter on Oct. 11. (Pool p hoto)

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IAEA team inspects elementary school

IITATE, Japan - A team of experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency inspects rice fields in the village of Iitate in Fukushima Prefecture on Oct. 10, 2011. Demonstration tests are being conducted in the fields to remove radioactive substances in the wake of the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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Anniversary of N. Korean defector Hwang's death

SEOUL, South Korea - People including defectors from North Korea release large balloons carrying about 200,000 leaflets criticizing the North's government into the sky during an event at Imjingak, Paju, South Korea, near the border with the North, on Oct. 10, 2011, to commemorate the first anniversary of Hwang Jang Yop's death. Hwang, the highest-ranking North Korean ever to defect to South Korea, was found dead in Seoul on Oct. 10, 2010, after defecting from the North in 1997.

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Cruz's walk-off grand slam lifts Rangers over Tigers

ARLINGTON, United States - Texas Rangers right fielder Nelson Cruz (17) celebrates with his teammates after blasting the first walk-off grand slam in postseason history in the 11th inning in Game 2 of the American League Championship Series against the Detroit Tigers at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Texas, on Oct. 10, 2011. Cruz went deep twice in a 7-3 victory and Texas took a 2-0 lead over Detroit in the best-of-seven league championship series.

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Big Ben leaning

LONDON, Britain - Photo shows Big Ben clock tower (C) in London on Oct. 10, 2011. The landmark has been found to be tilting to one side at a slightly faster pace than before.

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Maehara, S. Korean Foreign Minister Kim

SEOUL, South Korea - Seiji Maehara (L), policy chief of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, shakes hands with South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Kim Sung Hwan in a Seoul hotel on Oct. 10, 2011. (Pool photo)

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PM Noda visits farming community

KAWABA, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (2nd from R) tastes a slice of an apple in a facility selling locally grown farm produce during his visit to a farming community in Kawaba, Gunma Prefecture on Oct. 10, 2011. (Pool photo)

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Anniversary of N. Korean defector Hwang's death

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korean defectors raise an image of Hwang Jang Yop, the highest-ranking North Korean ever to defect to South Korea, during an event at Imjingak, Paju, South Korea, near the border with the North, on Oct. 10, 2011, to commemorate the first anniversary of Hwang's death. Hwang was found dead in Seoul on Oct. 10, 2010, after defecting to the South in 1997.

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Hiroshima doctors leave for N. Korea

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Shizuteru Usui (R front), president of the Hiroshima Prefectural Medical Association, and other member doctors of the group are seen at Hiroshima airport on Oct. 10, 2011, shortly before departure for Beijing. They are scheduled to arrive in Pyongyang on Oct. 11 for a five-day stay to conduct medical checkups for North Koreans who were in Hiroshima at the time of 1945 atomic attack on the city and exposed to radiation.

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Kabuki actor Nakamura Shikan dies at 83

TOKYO, Japan - In this file photo taken in October 2010, Kabuki actor Nakamura Shikan makes a speech after the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Kabukiza theater in Tokyo. He died Oct. 10, 2011, of lung failure at the age of 83.

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Military parade in Taiwan

TAIPEI, Taiwan - A vehicle (front) carrying the Hsiung-feng III, Taiwan's supersonic antiship missile, takes part in a military parade in front of the presidential office in Taipei on Oct. 10, 2011, the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of China.