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Japanese women increasingly tuning in to jazz

TOKYO, Japan - Female jazz lovers enjoy performances at jazz bar Mister Kelly's in Osaka's Dojima district on Oct. 17, 2012.

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Abandoned animals in Fukushima

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in the town of Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture, on Oct. 17, 2012, shows an aged dog named Kiseki (Miracle) sitting leashed to a pole. While it is in the process of recovering, the canine has never howled since he was given nonprofit group head Naoto Matsumura's protection. Town residents remain evacuated following the nuclear disaster triggered by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The town's mayor declared in September 2012 that residents would not return for the next five years.

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Huge wind turbine set up in Pacific off Chiba Pref.

CHOSHI, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Oct. 17, 2012, shows a 126-meter-high wind turbine built in the Pacific some 3 kilometers off Choshi, Chiba Prefecture, which starts power generation possibly in January 2013. Its output will be around 2,400 kilowatt-hours.

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Film director Koji Wakamatsu dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Japanese film director Koji Wakamatsu posing with the Silver Bear award for Best Actress at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival in Berlin on Feb. 20, 2010, after receiving the award on behalf of Shinobu Terajima, who starred in his film "Caterpillar." Wakamatsu, known for his works on violence, politics and erotic themes, died Oct. 17, 2012, at age 76, after being hospitalized for serious injuries sustained in a traffic accident.

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Film director Koji Wakamatsu dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Japanese film director Koji Wakamatsu, who died Oct. 17, 2012 at age 76, after being hospitalized for serious injuries sustained in a traffic accident. Wakamatsu was known for works exploring violent, political and erotic themes, and highly regarded abroad for movies including "Caterpillar."

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Demonstration over alleged rape in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - People stage a demonstration in front of the U.S. Marine Corps' Camp Zukeran, also called Camp Foster, in Okinawa Prefecture on Oct. 17, 2012, in protest at the alleged rape of a Japanese woman by two U.S. Navy sailors in the prefecture.

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Film director Koji Wakamatsu dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken at a theater in Osaka on Feb. 27, 2010, shows Japanese film director Koji Wakamatsu (R), and actress Shinobu Terajima holding up the Silver Bear trophy for Best Actress awarded at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival for her performance in Wakamatsu's film "Caterpillar." Wakamatsu, known for his works on violence, politics and erotic themes, died Oct. 17, 2012 at age 76, after being hospitalized for serious injuries sustained in a traffic accident.

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Truman's grandson at A-bomb survivors meeting

NEW YORK, United States - A high school student listens to an atomic bombing survivor at the Japan Society in New York on Oct. 17, 2012. Hundreds of students participated in the program, which featured Clifton Truman Daniel, the oldest grandson of Harry Truman, the U.S. president who ordered the two atomic bombs to be dropped on Japan in World War II, and Japanese atomic bomb survivors, who shared their experiences.

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Truman's grandson at A-bomb survivors' meeting

NEW YORK, United States - Atomic bombing survivor Yasuaki Yamashita (R) speaks about his experiences in the aftermath of the 1945 U.S. bombing of Nagasaki at the Japan Society in New York on Oct. 17, 2012. Clifton Truman Daniel (C), the oldest grandson of Harry Truman, the U.S. president who ordered the two atomic bombs to be dropped on Japan in World War II, and Setsuko Thurlow, also an atomic bombing survivor, sat beside Yamashita. Hundreds of high school students attended the event to listen to their experiences.

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Former Cambodian King Sihanouk's body returns home

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - A float decorated with a gilded swan's head moves through Phnom Pehn carrying a coffin bearing the body of former Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk on Oct. 17, 2012.

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LDP chief Abe visits war-linked Yasukuni Shrine

TOKYO, Japan - Shinzo Abe, leader of the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party, is surrounded by reporters after visiting Yasukuni Shrine, which enshrines many of Japan's war dead including some Class-A war criminals, in Tokyo on Oct. 17, 2012, on the occasion of the shrine's grand festival in fall.

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Former Cambodian King Sihanouk's body returns home

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - A coffin bearing the body of former Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk is transferred from a special Air China plane to a float decorated with a gilded swan's head at Phnom Penh International Airport on Oct. 17, 2012.

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Court rejects suit to stop operating cellphone transmitter

MIYAZAKI, Japan - Plaintiffs and their lawyers hold a press conference in Nobeoka, Miyazaki Prefecture, on Oct. 17, 2012, after the Nobeoka branch of the Miyazaki District Court rejected a lawsuit by citizens seeking to have mobile carrier KDDI Corp. stop operating a cellular transmitter that they claim has damaged their health.

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ICC Prosecutor Bensouda in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Fatou Bensouda holds a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 17, 2012.

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Vote disparity suit

TOKYO, Japan - Lawyers working a vote disparity suit enter the Supreme Court in Tokyo on Oct. 17, 2012. The top court said the same day that the fivefold disparity in the weight of votes in the 2010 upper house election was "in a state of unconstitutionality."

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LDP chief Abe visits war-linked Yasukuni Shrine

TOKYO, Japan - Shinzo Abe (L), leader of the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party, visits Yasukuni Shrine, which enshrines many of Japan's war dead including some Class-A war criminals, in Tokyo on Oct. 17, 2012, on the occasion of the shrine's grand festival in fall.

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Japan, U.S., S. Korea meeting

TOKYO, Japan - Combination photo shows (from L) Shinsuke Sugiyama, director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, Glyn Davies, the U.S. special envoy on North Korea, and Lim Sung Nam, South Korea's chief negotiator for the six-party talks, answering reporters' questions after their meeting in Tokyo on Oct. 17, 2012.

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Japan, U.S., S. Korea meeting

TOKYO, Japan - Shinsuke Sugiyama (C), director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, asks Glyn Davies (L), the U.S. special envoy on North Korea, and Lim Sung Nam, South Korea's chief negotiator to the six-party talks, to be seated for their meeting in Tokyo on Oct. 17, 2012.

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Japan, U.S., S. Korea meeting

TOKYO, Japan - Shinsuke Sugiyama (C), director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, Glyn Davies (L), the U.S. special envoy on North Korea, and Lim Sung Nam, South Korea's chief negotiator to the six-party talks, join hands before their meeting in Tokyo on Oct. 17, 2012.

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Japan, Okinawa officials meet over Okinawa rape

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Defense Minister Satoshi Morimoto (R) and Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima greet each other during their meeting in Tokyo on Oct. 17, 2012. They met following the arrests of two U.S. sailors on suspicion of raping a Japanese woman in her 20s in Okinawa Prefecture.

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Lightening current measured at Tokyo Skytree

TOKYO, Japan - An apparatus (pipe at C) installed 497 meters above ground to measure lightening currents is shown to reporters at the 634-meter-tall Tokyo Skytree in the Japanese capital's Sumida Ward on Oct. 17, 2012.

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Lightening current measured at Tokyo Skytree

TOKYO, Japan - An apparatus (pipe at bottom) installed 497 meters above ground to measure lightening currents is shown to reporters at the 634-meter-tall Tokyo Skytree in the Japanese capital's Sumida Ward on Oct. 17, 2012.

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Pitcher Saito plans to continue his career in 2012

MILWAUKEE, United States - Japanese pitcher Takashi Saito of the Milwaukee Brewers speaks to reporters at Miller Park in Milwaukee on Oct. 17, 2011, a night after his team lost 12-6 to the St. Louis Cardinals, failing to reach the World Series. Saito, who will turn 42 next year, said he plans to be back in uniform for the 2012 season.