Baseball: Swallows' Barnette

Baseball: Swallows' Barnette

TOKYO, Japan, April 30 Kyodo - Yakult Swallows catcher Yuhei Nakamura (back) throws his arms around pitcher Tony Barnette as their team beat the Yomiuri Giants at Jingu Stadium in Tokyo on Oct. 17, 2015, to advance to the Japan Series for the first time in 14 years. (Kyodo)

3 Japan Post group firms to go public as early as Oct.: pres.

3 Japan Post group firms to go public as early as Oct.: pres.

KANAZAWA, Japan, June 17 Kyodo - Taizo Nishimuro (L), president and CEO of Japan Post Holdings Co., speaks in a meeting of the Japan Post group's labor union in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, on June 17, 2015. He said that Japan Post and its banking and insurance arms will be listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in October or November.

Bloodstained shirt of attacked Nagasaki mayor shown

Bloodstained shirt of attacked Nagasaki mayor shown

NAGASAKI, Japan - A bloodstained shirt worn in 1990 by then Nagasaki Mayor Hitoshi Motoshima during a shooting attack is shown to the press in the southwestern Japan city's municipal office on Dec. 17, 2014, ahead of an exhibit of items related to him set for Jan. 15-19, 2015. Motoshima, who died at 92 on Oct. 31, 2014, was shot by a rightist in January 1990 for his statements about the emperor's responsibility for World War II.

COP 12 in Pyeongchang, S. Korea

COP 12 in Pyeongchang, S. Korea

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea - The 12th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity is held in Pyeongchang, South Korea, on Oct. 17, 2014, the last day of the conference. The parties agreed to retain the target of doubling financial aid to developing nations by 2015 to conserve biodiversity.