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Abandoned animals in Fukushima

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter over the town of Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture, on Oct. 24, 2012, shows farmland covered in yellow due to growth of wild Canada Goldenrod flowers. The crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is seen near the upper-right corner. 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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Demonstration in Indonesia

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Workers demonstrate demanding a hike in minimum wages in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Oct. 24, 2012.

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Giants beat Tigers in MLB World Series Game 1

SAN FRANCISCO, United States - San Francisco Giants starter Barry Zito pitches during Game 1 of the major league World Series against the Detroit Tigers at AT&T Park in San Francisco on Oct. 24, 2012. The Giants won 8-3.

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Giants beat Tigers in MLB World Series Game 1

SAN FRANCISCO, United States - San Francisco Giants players celebrate after beating the Detroit Tigers 8-3 in Game 1 of the major league World Series at AT&T Park in San Francisco on Oct. 24, 2012.

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Giants beat Tigers in MLB World Series Game 1

SAN FRANCISCO, United States - San Francisco Giants reliever Tim Lincecum pitches during Game 1 of the major league World Series against the Detroit Tigers at AT&T Park in San Francisco on Oct. 24, 2012. The Giants won 8-3.

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Giants beat Tigers in MLB World Series Game 1

SAN FRANCISCO, United States - San Francisco Giants infielder Pablo Sandoval is congratulated by teammates after hitting a home run during the fifth inning of Game 1 of the major league World Series at AT&T Park in San Francisco on Oct. 24, 2012. The Giants won 8-3 with Sandoval hitting three home runs.

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Giants beat Tigers in MLB World Series Game 1

SAN FRANCISCO, United States - San Francisco Giants infielder Pablo Sandoval (48) is cheered by fans after hitting a home run during the fifth inning of Game 1 of the major league World Series at AT&T Park in San Francisco on Oct. 24, 2012. The Giants won 8-3 with Sandoval hitting three home runs.

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Giants beat Tigers in MLB World Series Game 1

SAN FRANCISCO, United States - San Francisco Giants infielder Pablo Sandoval runs to third after hitting a home run during the fifth inning of Game 1 of the major league World Series at AT&T Park in San Francisco on Oct. 24, 2012. The Giants won 8-3 with Sandoval hitting three home runs.

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Giants beat Tigers in MLB World Series Game 1

SAN FRANCISCO, United States - San Francisco Giants infielder Pablo Sandoval (48) runs to second after hitting a home run during the fifth inning of Game 1 of the major league World Series at AT&T Park in San Francisco on Oct. 24, 2012. In back left is Tigers first baseman Prince Fielder. The Giants won 8-3 with Sandoval hitting three home runs.

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Giants beat Tigers in MLB World Series Game 1

SAN FRANCISCO, United States - San Francisco Giants infielder Pablo Sandoval (48) is cheered by fans after hitting a two run home run during the third inning of Game 1 of the major league World Series at AT&T Park in San Francisco on Oct. 24, 2012. The Giants won 8-3 with Sandoval hitting three home runs.

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Giants beat Tigers in MLB World Series Game 1

SAN FRANCISCO, United States - Detroit Tigers starter Justin Verlander (R) reacts after allowing a single by San Francisco Giants pitcher Barry Zito during the fourth inning of Game 1 of the major league World Series at AT&T Park in San Francisco on Oct. 24, 2012. At left is Tigers catcher Alex Avila. The Giants won 8-3.

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Giants beat Tigers in MLB World Series Game 1

SAN FRANCISCO, United States - Detroit Tigers starter Justin Verlander reacts after allowing a two-run homer by San Francisco infielder Pablo Sandoval during the third inning of Game 1 of the major league World Series at AT&T Park in San Francisco on Oct. 24, 2012. The Giants won 8-3 with Sandoval hitting three home runs.

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Giants beat Tigers in MLB World Series Game 1

SAN FRANCISCO, United States - Detroit Tigers starter Justin Verlander (R) allows a two-run homer by San Francisco infielder Pablo Sandoval (back L) during the third inning of Game 1 of the major league World Series at AT&T Park in San Francisco on Oct. 24, 2012. The Giants won 8-3 with Sandoval hitting three home runs.

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Giants beat Tigers in MLB World Series Game 1

SAN FRANCISCO, United States - San Francisco Giants infielder Pablo Sandoval homers during the fifth inning of Game 1 of the major league World Series at AT&T Park in San Francisco on Oct. 24, 2012. The Giants won 8-3 with Sandoval hitting three home runs.

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Giants beat Tigers in MLB World Series Game 1

SAN FRANCISCO, United States - San Francisco Giants infielder Pablo Sandoval runs to third after hitting a two-run home run during the third inning of Game 1 of the major league World Series at AT&T Park in San Francisco on Oct. 24, 2012. The Giants won 8-3 with Sandoval hitting three home runs.

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Giants beat Tigers in MLB World Series Game 1

SAN FRANCISCO, United States - San Francisco Giants infielder Pablo Sandoval is congratulated by teammate Angel Pagan (16) after hitting a two-run home run in the third inning of Game 1 of the major league World Series at AT&T Park in San Francisco on Oct. 24, 2012. The Giants won 8-3 with Sandoval hitting three home runs.

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Nobel Prize winners Yamanaka, Gurdon

SAN FRANCISCO, United States - Japanese researcher Shinya Yamanaka (L) and British biologist John Gurdon attend a press conference in San Francisco on Oct. 24, 2012. They shared their delight at jointly winning this year's Nobel Prize in medicine for their work on artificially derived multipurpose stem cells.

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Giants beat Tigers in MLB World Series Game 1

SAN FRANCISCO, United States - San Francisco Giants infielder Pablo Sandoval hits a two-run home run during the third inning of Game 1 of the major league World Series at AT&T Park in San Francisco on Oct. 24, 2012. The Giants won 8-3 with Sandoval hitting three home runs.

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Giants beat Tigers in MLB World Series Game 1

SAN FRANCISCO, United States - San Francisco Giants infielder Pablo Sandoval is congratulated by teammate Angel Pagan (16) after hitting a home run in the first inning of Game 1 of the major league World Series at AT&T Park in San Francisco on Oct. 24, 2012. The Giants won 8-3 with Sandoval hitting three home runs.

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Giants beat Tigers in MLB World Series Game 1

SAN FRANCISCO, United States - San Francisco Giants infielder Pablo Sandoval homers during the first inning of Game 1 of the major league World Series at AT&T Park in San Francisco on Oct. 24, 2012. The Giants won 8-3 with Sandoval hitting three home runs.

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Giants beat Tigers in MLB World Series Game 1

SAN FRANCISCO, United States - Detroit Tigers starter Justin Verlander (L) allows a home run by San Francisco infielder Pablo Sandoval (back R) during the first inning of Game 1 of the major league World Series at AT&T Park in San Francisco on Oct. 24, 2012. The Giants won 8-3 with Sandoval hitting three home runs.

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Visit to N. Korea burial site

CHONGJIN, North Korea - Yukihiro Kimura (front) and his elder brother Shigeru offer prayers on Oct. 24, 2012, at a site in Komusan, north of Chongjin in northeastern North Korea, which is believed to contain the remains of about 2,000 Japanese soldiers and security personnel who died at a prison camp around the end of World War II. The two were among four Japanese nationals who visited the site to pray for the souls of relatives who died in what is now North Korea.

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Visit to N. Korea burial site

CHONGJIN, North Korea - Yukihiro Kimura (R front) and other Japanese offer prayers on Oct. 24, 2012, at a site in Komusan, north of Chongjin in northeastern North Korea, which is believed to contain the remains of about 2,000 Japanese soldiers and security personnel who died at a prison camp around the end of World War II. Kimura was one of four Japanese nationals who visited the site to pray for the souls of relatives who died in what is now North Korea.

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Visit to N. Korea burial site

CHONGJIN, North Korea - Japanese nationals, bereaved family members of those who lost their lives in what is now North Korea, visit a site on Oct. 24, 2012, in Komusan, north of Chongjin in northeastern North Korea, which is believed to contain the remains of about 2,000 Japanese soldiers and security personnel who died at a prison camp around the end of World War II.

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Japan futsal team draw with Brazil

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Kazuyoshi Miura plays in a friendly against Brazil at Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo on Oct. 24, 2012, making his international futsal debut. Japan and Brazil drew 3-3.

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Visit to N. Korea burial site

CHONGJIN, North Korea - Shigeru Kimura is moved to tears on Oct. 24, 2012, at a site in Komusan, north of Chongjin in northeastern North Korea, which is believed to contain the remains of about 2,000 Japanese soldiers and security personnel who died at a prison camp around the end of World War II. Kimura was one of four Japanese nationals who visited the site to pray for the souls of relatives who died in what is now North Korea.

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Amazon CEO in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Amazon.com Inc. chief executive officer Jeff Bezos speaks during an interview in Tokyo on Oct. 24, 2012. The U.S. online retailer said the same day it will start selling Kindle electronic books and readers in Japan.

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Amazon CEO in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Amazon.com Inc. chief executive officer Jeff Bezos holds a Kindle Fire HD in Tokyo on Oct. 24, 2012. The U.S. online retailer said the same day it will start selling Kindle electronic books and readers in Japan.

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Japan's biggest cable TV operator to merge with No. 2

TOKYO, Japan - Makoto Takahashi (L), senior vice president of KDDI Corp., and Yoshio Osawa, director, senior managing executive officer of Sumitomo Corp., shake hands in Tokyo on Oct. 24, 2012. Sumitomo and KDDI that day said they will merge their cable TV services by integrating Japan's biggest cable television operator Jupiter Telecommunications Co. and second-largest cable TV operator Japan Cablenet Ltd. around fall 2013.

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Taki reappointed as justice minister after scandals

TOKYO, Japan - Justice Minister Minoru Taki holds a press conference at the ministry in Tokyo on Oct. 24, 2012. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda reappointed Taki as justice minister earlier the same day, following the resignation of Keishu Tanaka over his past connections with a yakuza organized crime syndicate.

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Taki reappointed as justice minister after scandals

TOKYO, Japan - Justice Minister Minoru Taki (L) and Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda shake hands at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 24, 2012, following an attestation ceremony. Noda reappointed Taki as justice minister earlier the same day, following the resignation of Keishu Tanaka over his past connections with a yakuza organized crime syndicate.

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Salmon in Fukushima river

IWAKI, Japan - A salmon jumps in a river in a former no-entry zone in Naraha, Fukushima Prefecture, on Oct. 24, 2012, as the fish was heading upstream for breeding. Salmon released as fry before the 2011 Fukushima nuclear power plant accident have begun to return from the sea to rivers.

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Salmon in Fukushima river

IWAKI, Japan - A salmon jumps in a river in a former no-entry zone in Naraha, Fukushima Prefecture, on Oct. 24, 2012, as the fish was heading upstream for breeding. Salmon released as fry before the 2011 Fukushima nuclear power plant accident have begun to return from the sea to rivers.

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Fukushima no-go zone

TOKYO, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows untended farmland covered by the wildflower Canada goldenrod in no-entry zones in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (top L) on Oct. 24, 2012.

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Fukushima no-go zone

TOKYO, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows untended farmland covered by the wildflower Canada goldenrod in no-entry zones in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (top) on Oct. 24, 2012.

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Nuclear disaster drill in Hokkaido

SAPPORO, Japan - Hokkaido Gov. Harumi Takahashi (2nd from L) is briefed on the screening for radioactive materials in the village of Akaigawa, Hokkaido, on Oct. 24, 2012, in an emergency drill simulating a nuclear accident in which 1,800 residents were evacuated from around the Tomari nuclear plant.

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Nuclear disaster drill in Hokkaido

SAPPORO, Japan - Children are briefed on the screening for radioactive materials in the village of Akaigawa, Hokkaido, on Oct. 24, 2012, in an emergency drill simulating a nuclear accident in which 1,800 residents were evacuated from around the Tomari nuclear plant.

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Taki reappointed as justice minister after scandals

TOKYO, Japan - Minoru Taki enters the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 24, 2012. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda reappointed Taki as justice minister on the same day, following the resignation of Keishu Tanaka over his past connections with a yakuza organized crime syndicate.

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Japan defense chief

SASEBO, Japan - Japanese Defense Minister Satoshi Morimoto speaks during a ceremony at a base of the Maritime Self-Defense Force in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Oct. 24, 2012.

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Japan rugby coach Jones

TOKYO, Japan - Japan rugby coach Eddie Jones holds a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 24, 2012.

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Japan defense chief

SASEBO, Japan - Japanese Defense Minister Satoshi Morimoto attends a ceremony at a base of the Maritime Self-Defense Force in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Oct. 24, 2012.

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Nuclear disaster drill in Hokkaido

SAPPORO, Japan - Local residents arrive in the village of Akaigawa, Hokkaido, on Oct. 24, 2012, after being evacuated from around the Tomari nuclear plant in a Self-Defense Force helicopter during an emergency drill simulating a nuclear accident.

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Radiation spread projections in severe accidents

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 24, 2012, shows documents giving projections for the spread of radiation from nationwide nuclear reactors in the event of a severe accident, distributed at a meeting of the Nuclear Regulation Authority, in Tokyo on Oct. 24, 2012. In releasing their first such projections, Japan's nuclear regulatory authorities said the amount of radiation released a week after an accident at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture could reach the level where evacuation is recommended for those living as far as 40 kilometers from the plant.

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Nuclear disaster drill in Hokkaido

FURUBIRA, Japan - Local residents board a Japan Coast Guard vessel in the village of Furubira, Hokkaido, on Oct. 24, 2012, in an emergency drill simulating a nuclear accident in which 1,800 residents were evacuated from around the Tomari nuclear plant.

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Iwakuma to head TSE after merger with OSE

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Hiroyuki Iwakuma, senior executive vice president of Tokyo Stock Exchange Group Inc. Iwakuma is to become president of the bourse operator after its merger on Jan. 1, 2013, with Osaka Securities Exchange Co., company sources said on Oct. 24, 2012.

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Nuclear disaster drill in Hokkaido

SAPPORO, Japan - Local residents undergo screening for radioactive materials at a hotel in Otaru, Hokkaido, on Oct. 24, 2012, in an emergency drill simulating a nuclear accident in which 1,800 residents were evacuated from around the Tomari nuclear plant.

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Foreign minister thanks Fukushima Hula girls

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba (L) shakes hands with a Hula girl from a spa resort in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, at the ministry in Tokyo on Oct. 24, 2012. Gemba thanked the Hula girls for their role as a goodwill ambassador at a Pacific island summit in Okinawa in May 2012.

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Radiation spread projections in severe accidents

TOKYO, Japan - Shunichi Tanaka, head of the Nuclear Regulation Authority, takes a look at documents giving projections for the spread of radiation from nationwide nuclear reactors in the event of a severe accident, at an NRA meeting in Tokyo on Oct. 24, 2012. In releasing their first such projections, Japan's nuclear regulatory authorities said the amount of radiation released a week after an accident at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture could reach the level where evacuation is recommended for those living as far as 40 kilometers from the plant.

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Japan, China senior diplomats secretly meet in Shanghai

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Chikao Kawai (L) and his Chinese counterpart, Zhang Zhijun. Kawai and his Chinese counterpart, who is believed to have been Zhang, have secretly met in Shanghai to seek ways to improve bilateral relations that have soured over competing claims to the sovereignty of the Senkaku Islands, Japanese government officials said Oct. 24, 2012.

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Red-brick Tokyo Station building reopens

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Sept. 24, 2012, shows a dome ceiling of the red-brick Tokyo Station building. The station building opened Oct. 1, 2012, after five years' restoration work to return the landmark to its original look in 1914.