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TEPCO logs group net profit

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Naomi Hirose gives a press conference on the utility's earnings in the first half of fiscal 2013 at the company's head office in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2013. TEPCO reported a group net profit of 616.20 billion yen for the April-September period, swinging into the black on a half-year basis for the first time since the nuclear disaster at its Fukushima Daiichi complex in 2011.

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TEPCO logs 299 bil. yen group net loss for 2nd qtr

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Naomi Hirose speaks about the outlook for fiscal 2012 ending March 31 at the company's head office in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2012. The utility known as TEPCO reported a group net loss of 299.48 billion yen for the April to September half, pressured by higher fossil fuel costs to make up for the halt in nuclear power generation following the disaster at its Fukushima Daiichi complex in 2011.

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Sumo elder Naruto, ex-yokozuna Takanosato, dies

FUKUOKA, Japan - File photo shows sumo elder Naruto (R) attending a press conference along with Kisenosato, a wrestler who belongs to the Naruto stable, in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 31, 2011. Naruto, the former yokozuna Takanosato, died of respiratory failure at a Fukuoka hospital on Nov. 7, 2011, aged 59.

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Ex-Olympus chief Woodford

LONDON, Britain - Former Olympus Corp. Chief Executive Officer and President Michael Woodford speaks in an interview in London on Oct. 31, 2011. He said he is willing to return as president and rebuild the company mired in a scandal over alleged shady acquisitions in the past.

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Cain delivers speech in Washington

WASHINGTON, United States - Herman Cain, who is running for the Republican presidential nomination, delivers a speech in Washington on Oct. 31, 2011.

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Flooding in Thailand

BANGKOK, Thailand - Thai army vehicles evacuate from a military base in northern Bangkok to a facility in the suburbs of the capital due to flooding on Oct. 31, 2011.

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7 billionth baby in Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Tomoko Watanabe, 20, holds her son, who was born on Oct. 31, 2011, as one of the ''7 billionth babies,'' at a hospital in the city of Fukushima. The U.N. Population Fund estimates that the world's population exceeded 7 billion that day. Watanabe said she will raise her son in Fukushima despite relatively high radiation levels due to the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.

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Panasonic expects 420 bil. yen net loss in FY 2011

TOKYO, Japan - Panasonic Corp. President Fumio Otsubo attends a news conference in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2011. The company said it is anticipating a huge group net loss of 420 billion yen for the fiscal year ending March as it faces restructuring costs related to its loss-making businesses, a reversal from a profit of 74.02 billion yen in the previous year.

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Japan-Vietnam nuclear cooperation

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Tan Dung shake hands at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2011. They agreed to continue their cooperation on nuclear power. Under a joint statement signed between the two leaders, Vietnam has ''expressed its strong desire for the provision of nuclear technologies from Japan.''

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Japan-Vietnam nuclear cooperation

TOKYO, Japan - Citizens group members protest on Oct. 31, 2011, in front of the prime minister's office in Tokyo, where Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Tan Dung met the same day and agreed to continue their cooperation on nuclear power. Under a joint statement signed between the two leaders, Vietnam has ''expressed its strong desire for the provision of nuclear technologies from Japan.''

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Gov't official drinks Fukushima plant water

TOKYO, Japan - Cabinet Office Parliamentary Secretary Yasuhiro Sonoda drinks water taken from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture during a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2011. He drank the water, taken from the basements of the No. 5 and 6 reactor buildings, after a reporter asked him to do so to prove it is safe.

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Flooding in Thailand

BANGKOK, Thailand - Bangkok's Chinatown is flooded on Oct. 31, 2011.

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Osaka Gov. Hashimoto resigns

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka Gov. Toru Hashimoto holds a bouquet from prefectural employees at the Osaka prefectural hall in the city of Osaka on Oct. 31, 2011, as he resigned from the post the same day to run in an Osaka mayoral election.

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Japan, India to resume talks on civil nuclear power pact

NEW DELHI, India - Gautam Bambawale, who is in charge of East Asian affairs at the Indian Foreign Ministry, speaks during an interview with a group of Japanese journalists in New Delhi on Oct. 31, 2011. He said Japan and India will resume talks on civil nuclear energy cooperation in November.

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Mega solar power plant in Aichi

NAGOYA, Japan - A photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows ''Mega Solar Taketoyo,'' a 7,500-kilowatt solar power plant of Chubu Electric Power Co. in the town of Taketoyo, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, as the facility began commercial operation on Oct. 31, 2011.

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Geisha visit tsunami evacuees

SENDAI, Japan - Geisha and apprentice geisha from Kyoto visit temporary homes in Sendai, northeastern Japan, on Oct. 31, 2011, for evacuees of the March quake and tsunami to cheer them up.

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World's longest habu poisonous snake

NAHA, Japan - Koki Terada, a researcher at the Okinawa Prefectural Institute of Health and Environment, on Oct. 31, 2011, in the institute in Nanjo in the prefecture, holds a dead habu snake, which was found and killed on Oct. 12 in the village of Onna on the prefecture's main island. The 2.42-meter-long indigenous venomous snake is the world's longest habu, according to the institute.

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Geisha visit tsunami evacuees

SENDAI, Japan - Geisha and apprentice geisha from Kyoto touch the cat of an evacuee of the March quake and tsunami at her temporary housing in Sendai, northeastern Japan, on Oct. 31, 2011. They visited the temporary housing to cheer evacuees up.

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U.S. Navy unveils rediscovered stone monuments

YOKOSUKA, Japan - The U.S. Navy unveils two stone monuments created by the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1915 as the navy held a ceremony at its base in Yokosuka, southwest of Tokyo, on Oct. 31, 2011. The monuments were discovered in 2005 during work to expand a quay.

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World population tops 7 billion

TOKYO, Japan - Kiyoko Ikegami, head of the U.N. Population Fund's Tokyo office, holds a certificate for a baby who was born on Oct. 31, 2011, as ''one of the 7 billionth babies'' during a press conference held the same day in Tokyo. The New York-based UNFPA estimates that the world's population exceeded 7 billion on Oct. 31, 2011.

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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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New ozeki Kotoshogiku

FUKUOKA, Japan - New ozeki Kotoshogiku points at his name in a document listing the updated rankings of sumo wresters in a press conference in Hisayama, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Oct. 31, 2011. The Japan Sumo Association released the rankings the same day for the Nov. 13-27 Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament at Fukuoka Kokusai Center in the prefecture. Kotoshogiku is the first Japanese wrestler to assume sumo's second-highest rank of ozeki in four years.

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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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Finance Minister Azumi on strong yen

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Finance Minister Jun Azumi speaks with reporters at the Finance Ministry in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2011, after the U.S. dollar fell to a fresh postwar low of 75.32 yen in Oceanian trading earlier in the day. Azumi said Japan might conduct a yen-selling intervention ''if necessary'' to arrest the currency's rapid appreciation.

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Japan steps into currency market

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Finance Minister Jun Azumi (C) at the Finance Ministry in Tokyo announces Japan's intervention in the currency market on Oct. 31, 2011, to arrest the yen's rapid appreciation. It was the country's first intervention in about three months.

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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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Vietnamese PM Dung

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung who is scheduled to hold talks with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda on Oct. 31, 2011, in Japan.