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Australian firefighters climb Sydney Tower for ALS research

SYDNEY, Australia, Oct. 23 Kyodo - A firefighter crosses the finish line after climbing all 1,504 stairs of the iconic Sydney Tower Eye during an event in Sydney on Oct. 23, 2016. Some 446 firefighters, each carrying an additional 20 kilograms of gear, took part in the event aimed at raising money and awareness for the neurodegenerative disease ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease.

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Japan's Uno wins Skate America

CHICAGO, United States, Oct. 24 Kyodo - Shoma Uno of Japan performs during the men's free program in the Skate America event in Chicago on Oct. 23, 2016. Uno won the title.

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Huge illumination depicts Alps

Photo taken Oct. 23, 2015, shows a 120-meter-wide, 35-meter-high illumination depicting the Alps at a leisure facility in the central Japanese city of Kuwana. The illumination will be open to the public through May 8, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Huge illumination depicts Alps

Photo taken Oct. 23, 2015, shows a 120-meter-wide, 35-meter-high illumination depicting the Alps at a leisure facility in the central Japanese city of Kuwana. The illumination will be open to the public through May 8, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Life on disputed Shikotan Island

Photo taken Oct. 23, 2016, shows a monument commemorating those killed in World War II, on Shikotan, one of the four Russian-held islands off Hokkaido that are claimed by Japan. The decades-old territorial row will be high on the agenda when President Vladimir Putin holds a summit meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Japan in December. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Life on disputed Shikotan Island

Photo taken Oct. 23, 2016, shows a hospital on Shikotan, one of the four Russian-held islands off Hokkaido that are claimed by Japan. The decades-old territorial row will be high on the agenda when President Vladimir Putin holds a summit meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Japan in December. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Life on disputed Shikotan Island

A Russian family walks on a road on Oct. 23, 2016, through a community on Shikotan, one of the four Russian-held islands off Hokkaido that are claimed by Japan. The decades-old territorial row will be high on the agenda when President Vladimir Putin holds a summit meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Japan in December. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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King Chulalongkorn statue in Bangkok

A statue of King Chulalongkorn in Bangkok's Royal Plaza is seen decorated and surrounded by dozens of wreaths on Oct. 24, 2016, commemorating the Oct. 23 anniversary of the king's death in 1910, a national holiday in Thailand. King Chulalongkorn was the grandfather of the recently deceased King Bhumibol Adulyadej. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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King Chulalongkorn statue in Bangkok

A statue of King Chulalongkorn in Bangkok's Royal Plaza is seen decorated and surrounded by dozens of wreaths on Oct. 24, 2016, commemorating the Oct. 23 anniversary of the king's death in 1910, a national holiday in Thailand. King Chulalongkorn was the grandfather of the recently deceased King Bhumibol Adulyadej. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Damages ordered over tsunami deaths of elementary school students

File photo taken in March, 2011, shows a pile of school bags retrieved from Okawa Elementary School in the city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, after the school was hit by the tsunami that followed a major earthquake in northeastern Japan. The Sendai District Court ordered on Oct. 26, 2016, the city and the prefecture to pay roughly 1.4 billion yen ($13.4 million) in damages to the families of 23 school students killed in the tsunami, judging the city-run school failed to evacuate the children appropriately. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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King Chulalongkorn statue in Bangkok

A statue of King Chulalongkorn in Bangkok's Royal Plaza is seen decorated and surrounded by dozens of wreaths on Oct. 24, 2016, commemorating the Oct. 23 anniversary of the king's death in 1910, a national holiday in Thailand. King Chulalongkorn was the grandfather of the recently deceased King Bhumibol Adulyadej. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan PM pitches SDF's new overseas duties at review ceremony

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) addresses an annual troop review of Japan's Self-Defense Forces at the Asaka garrison of the Ground Self-Defense Force on the border of Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture on Oct. 23, 2016, with Defense Minister Tomomi Inada standing by his side. Abe pitched new overseas duties to be given to SDF members under new security legislation. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Volleyball: 1964 Olympic gold medalist Maruyama dies at 72

Sata Maruyama (2nd from L), then known by her maiden name Isobe, and other players on the gold-winning Japan women's volleyball team, attend the award ceremony at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics in this file photo taken Oct. 23, 1964. Maruyama died at 72 on Dec. 18, 2016, her family said. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Baseball: Hiroshima to retire Kuroda's No. 15

Hiroshima Carp pitcher Hiroki Kuroda shows the ball at Mazda Stadium in Hiroshima on July 23, 2016, when he picked up the 200th win of his combined career in Japan and the major leagues. The Carp are set to retire his uniform number 15, club owner Hajime Matsuda said on Oct. 31. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Damages ordered over tsunami deaths of elementary school students

People offer prayers on Oct. 26, 2016 in front of damaged Okawa Elementary School in the city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, where 74 students and 10 teachers were killed by a tsunami following a major earthquake in northeastern Japan in 2011. The Sendai District Court ordered the city and prefecture on Oct. 26 to pay roughly 1.4 billion yen ($13.4 million) in damages to 23 families that filed suit against them, judging the city-run school failed to evacuate the children appropriately. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Damages ordered over tsunami deaths of elementary school students

Family members of Okawa Elementary School students killed in the tsunami that followed the huge earthquake in northeastern Japan in 2011 hold up signs showing the Sendai District Court's acceptance of their claim in the damages suit in front of the court in Sendai on Oct. 26, 2016. The court ordered the city of Ishinomaki and Miyagi Prefecture to pay roughly 1.4 billion yen ($13.4 million) in damages to the families of 23 elementary school students, judging the city-run school failed to evacuate the children appropriately. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ruling on damages over school kids' deaths in tsunami

People who lost their children in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster head to the Sendai District Court on Oct. 26, 2016, to hear its ruling on their damages suit. Seventy-four students of Okawa elementary school in the northeastern Japan city of Ishinomaki died or remain unaccounted for, of whom the families of 23 sought compensation from local authorities. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ruling on damages over school kids' deaths in tsunami

People mourn victims of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster on Oct. 26, 2016, in front of Okawa elementary school in the northeastern Japan city of Ishinomaki, where 74 students died or remain unaccounted for. Of the 74, the families of 23 students filed a damages suit seeking compensation from local authorities, and the Sendai District Court will hand down a ruling later in the day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ruling on damages over school kids' deaths in tsunami

People mourn victims of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster on Oct. 25, 2016, in front of Okawa elementary school in the northeastern Japan city of Ishinomaki, where 74 students died or remain unaccounted for. Of the 74, the families of 23 students filed a damages suit seeking compensation from local authorities, and the Sendai District Court will hand down a ruling on Oct. 26. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ruling on damages over school kids' deaths in tsunami

People mourn victims of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster on Oct. 25, 2016, in front of Okawa elementary school in the northeastern Japan city of Ishinomaki, where 74 students died or remain unaccounted for. Of the 74, the families of 23 students filed a damages suit seeking compensation from local authorities, and the Sendai District Court will hand down a ruling on Oct. 26. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ruling on damages over school kids' deaths in tsunami

People mourn victims of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster on Oct. 25, 2016, in front of Okawa elementary school in the northeastern Japan city of Ishinomaki, where 74 students died or remain unaccounted for. Of the 74, the families of 23 students filed a damages suit seeking compensation from local authorities, and the Sendai District Court will hand down a ruling on Oct. 26. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's representative for 2017 Miss International

Natsuki Tsutsui (C), a 23-year-old therapist, is chosen in Tokyo on Oct. 25, 2016 to represent Japan in the 2017 Miss International Pageant. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's representative for 2017 Miss International

Natsuki Tsutsui, a 23-year-old therapist, is chosen in Tokyo on Oct. 25, 2016 to represent Japan in the 2017 Miss International Pageant. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's representative for 2017 Miss International

Natsuki Tsutsui, a 23-year-old therapist, is chosen in Tokyo on Oct. 25, 2016 to represent Japan in the 2017 Miss International Pageant. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's representative for 2017 Miss International

Natsuki Tsutsui, a 23-year-old therapist, is chosen in Tokyo on Oct. 25, 2016 to represent Japan in the 2017 Miss International Pageant. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's Ishikawa finishes tied for 10th at CIMB Classic

Ryo Ishikawa of Japan plays in the CIMB Classic golf tournament at TPC Kuala Lumpur on Oct. 23, 2016. Ishikawa finished tied for 10th place. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's Ishikawa finishes tied for 10th at CIMB Classic

Ryo Ishikawa of Japan plays in the CIMB Classic golf tournament at TPC Kuala Lumpur on Oct. 23, 2016. Ishikawa finished tied for 10th place. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sumo: Former komusubi Haguroiwa dies at 70

Tomojiro Toda, seen in a photo taken in May 1975, died of kidney failure on Oct. 23, 2016, at the age of 70. The former komusubi Haguroiwa is known for snapping yokozuna Taiho's 45-bout winning streak in controversial fashion on the second day of the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament in Osaka in March 1969. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sumo: Former komusubi Haguroiwa dies at 70

File photo taken in March 1969 shows Toda (L) snapping yokozuna Taiho's 45-bout winning streak in controversial fashion on the second day of the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament in Osaka. Toda, who later changed his ring name to Haguroiwa, died of kidney failure on Oct. 23, 2016, at the age of 70. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Golf: Matsuyama makes top 10 in men's world golf ranking

Undated photo shows Japanese golfer Hideki Matsuyama. It was announced on Oct. 23, 2016, that the 24-year-old Matsuyama has claimed 10th spot in the world golf ranking, the first time in 18 years that a Japanese player has been named among the top 10 male professional golfers. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan prepares to send GSDF unit on PKO mission

Japanese Defense Minister Tomomi Inada meets with reporters after inspecting a Ground Self-Defense Force training exercise in the northeastern prefecture of Iwate on Oct. 23, 2016, prior to the dispatch of a GSDF unit to South Sudan in November under a U.N. peacekeeping mission. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan prepares to send GFSD unit on PKO mission

Japanese Defense Minister Tomomi Inada give instructions at a Ground Self-Defense Force training ground in the northeastern prefecture of Iwate on Oct. 23, 2016, before the dispatch of a GSDF unit to South Sudan in November under a U.N. peacekeeping mission. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's Asada performs at Skate America figure skating

Japan's Mao Asada performs during an exhibition at the Skate America figure skating competition in Chicago on Oct. 23, 2016. Three-time world champion Asada finished sixth. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Carp marks 2nd win of Japan Series

Brad Eldred of Hiroshima Carp hits a solo home run for the second straight night during the sixth inning of the Japan Series Game 2 against the Pacific League champion Nippon Ham Fighters in the western city of Hiroshima on Oct. 23, 2016. Carp defeated the visitors 5-1 for their second win, and now need two more wins in the best-of-seven series to claim their first Japan championship in 32 years. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's Uno wins Skate America

Shoma Uno of Japan celebrates after winning the Skate America title in Chicago on Oct. 23, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's Uno wins Skate America

Shoma Uno of Japan responds to the audience after completing the free program in the Skate America event in Chicago on Oct. 23, 2016. Uno won the title. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's Uno wins Skate America

Shoma Uno of Japan performs during the men's free program in the Skate America event in Chicago on Oct. 23, 2016. Uno won the title. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's Uno wins Skate America

Shoma Uno of Japan performs during the men's free program in the Skate America event in Chicago on Oct. 23, 2016. Uno won the title. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's Uno wins Skate America

Shoma Uno of Japan performs during the men's free program in the Skate America event in Chicago on Oct. 23, 2016. Uno won the title. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's Matsuyama finishes 2nd at CIMB Classic

Japan's Hideki Matsuyama reacts after missing an eagle putt on the fifth hole during the final round of the CIMB Classic golf tournament in Kuala Lumpur on Oct. 23, 2016. Matsuyama finished runner-up with a 20-under 268. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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16,000 runners take part in Chiba Aqualine Marathon event

Some 16,000 people take part in the Chiba Aqualine Marathon event on the Tokyo Bay Aqualine expressway, which links Chiba and Kanagawa prefectures across Tokyo Bay, on Oct. 23, 2016. They started in front of a park in Kisarazu, Chiba Prefecture, and turned around at Umihotaru parking area on the expressway. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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16,000 runners take part in Chiba Aqualine Marathon event

People run near Umihotaru parking area (topmost) on the Tokyo Bay Aqualine expressway, which links Chiba and Kanagawa prefectures across Tokyo Bay, during the Chiba Aqualine Marathon event on Oct. 23, 2016. About 16,000 people took part in the race, which started in front of a park in Kisarazu, Chiba Prefecture, and turned around at the parking area. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan PM pitches SDF's new overseas duties at review ceremony

MV-22 Osprey aircraft of the U.S. Marine Corps fly over the Asaka garrison of the Ground Self-Defense Force on the border of Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture on Oct. 23, 2016, during an annual troop review of Japan's Self-Forces. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan PM pitches SDF's new overseas duties at review ceremony

MV-22 Osprey aircraft of the U.S. Marine Corps fly over the Asaka garrison of the Ground Self-Defense Force on the border of Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture on Oct. 23, 2016, during an annual troop review of Japan's Self-Forces. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan PM pitches SDF's new overseas duties at review ceremony

Japanese Prime Minister, standing in a convertible, attends an annual troop review of Japan's Self-Defense Forces at the Asaka garrison of the Ground Self-Defense Force on the border of Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture on Oct. 23, 2016. Abe pitched new overseas duties to be given to SDF members under new security legislation. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan PM pitches SDF's new overseas duties at review ceremony

Japanese Prime Minister, standing in a convertible, attends an annual troop review of Japan's Self-Defense Forces at the Asaka garrison of the Ground Self-Defense Force on the border of Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture on Oct. 23, 2016. Abe pitched new overseas duties to be given to SDF members under new security legislation. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Research on Nishinoshima island starts

Photo taken from a Kyodo News airplane shows researchers starting surveillance activities on the Pacific island of Nishinoshima some 1,000 kilometers south of Tokyo on Oct. 20, 2016, for the first time since its eruption in 2013. They will research volcanic activity and the ecosystem there through Oct. 23. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Research on Nishinoshima island starts

Photo taken from a Kyodo News airplane shows researchers starting surveillance activities on the Pacific island of Nishinoshima some 1,000 kilometers south of Tokyo on Oct. 20, 2016, for the first time since its eruption in 2013. They will research volcanic activity and the ecosystem there through Oct. 23. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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By-election campaigns kick off in Tokyo, Fukuoka lower house districts

Masaru Wakasa, 59, a House of Representatives lawmaker from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, makes a stump speech in Tokyo's Toshima Ward on Oct. 11, 2016, ahead of a by-election in the House of Representatives on Oct. 23. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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By-election campaigns kick off in Tokyo, Fukuoka lower house districts

Democratic Party newcomer Yosuke Suzuki, 40, a former journalist with public broadcaster NHK, makes a stump speech in Tokyo's Toshima Ward on Oct. 11, 2016, ahead of a by-election in the House of Representatives on Oct. 23. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo