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Steve Jobs at iPad 2 unveiling event

SAN FRANCISCO, United States - File photo shows Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs speaking during an event to unveil the iPad 2 tablet computer in San Francisco on March 2, 2011. Jobs died Oct. 5, 2011, aged 56.

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Caps made from tsunami-hit fishermen's flags

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Hunting caps are displayed at cap and hat manufacturer Suzuki Kikaku's office in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on Oct. 5, 2011. The company has begun selling the caps made from ''tairyobata'' flags, which are hoisted on fishing boats on their way back to port to signal a large catch. The flags have been provided by local fishermen who lost their boats due to the March tsunami, and part of the revenues from the caps' sales will be used to reinvigorate the local fishing industry.

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Taiwan presidential candidate

TOKYO, Japan - Tsai Ing-wen, head of Taiwan's main opposition Democratic Progressive Party, speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 5, 2011, ahead of a presidential election in January.

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Portsmouth Peace Treaty original text

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 6, 2011, at the Diplomatic Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan in Tokyo shows part of the original Portsmouth Peace Treaty text. The treaty was signed by the Japanese and Russian envoys at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in the state of Maine, the United States, on Sept. 5, 1905, formally ending the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War. The signatures of Japan's Jutaro Komura and Kogoro Takahira are seen in the photo.

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Portsmouth Peace Treaty original text

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 6, 2011, at the Diplomatic Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan in Tokyo shows part of the original Portsmouth Peace Treaty text. The treaty was signed by the Japanese and Russian envoys at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in the state of Maine, the United States, on Sept. 5, 1905, formally ending the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War.

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Portsmouth Peace Treaty original text

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 6, 2011, at the Diplomatic Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan in Tokyo shows part of the original Portsmouth Peace Treaty text. The treaty was signed by the Japanese and Russian envoys at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in the state of Maine, the United States, on Sept. 5, 1905, formally ending the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War.

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Brewers' Saito vs. D-backs

PHOENIX, United States - Takashi Saito of the Milwaukee Brewers pitches against the Arizona Diamondbacks in Game 4 of their National League Division Series at Chase Field in Phoenix on Oct. 5, 2011. Saito hurled a scoreless eighth inning in a 10-6 loss to Arizona. The series is tied 2-2.

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Brewers' Saito vs. D-backs

PHOENIX, United States - Takashi Saito of the Milwaukee Brewers pitches against the Arizona Diamondbacks in Game 4 of their National League Division Series at Chase Field in Phoenix on Oct. 5, 2011. Saito hurled a scoreless eighth inning in a 10-6 loss to Arizona. The series is tied 2-2.

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'Occupy Wall Street' demonstration in N.Y.

NEW YORK, United States - Children hold slogans during a major demonstration in New York on Oct. 5, 2011. The demonstration is one of the events organized as part of the movement dubbed ''Occupy Wall Street,'' to protest the running of the financial sector and economic inequality in the United States.

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Uchimura prepares for world's gymnastics c'ships

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Kohei Uchimura, who has captured the last two consecutive individual all-around titles at the world gymnastics championships, practices on Oct. 5, 2011, at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium in Tokyo, where the world championship competition will be held from Oct. 7 to 16.

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Apple co-founder Jobs dies

NEW YORK, United States - File photo shows Steve Jobs, Apple Inc. co-founder and chairman, speaks during an event to unveil new products in San Francisco in March 2011. Apple said on Oct. 5, 2011, Jobs has died at the age of 56.

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Strike in Greece

ATHENS, Greece - Riot police officers keep watch near the Greek parliament building in Athens on Oct 5, 2011. Thousands of striking workers marched to the parliament the same day against the government's austerity policy.

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World's cheapest Indian tablet

NEW DELHI, India - A woman holds on Oct. 5, 2011 in New Delhi a tablet computer, nicknamed Aakash, which was unveiled and launched in the Indian capital by the government the same day. Aakash, which has been designed, developed and manufactured by the Britain-based DataWind Ltd. in association with the Indian Institute of Technology in Rajasthan under the Indian government's National Mission on Education through Information and Technology (NME-ICT), will carry a price as low as $38, making it the world's cheapest tablet computer.

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Ito loses in 2nd round of Japan Open

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Tatsuma Ito reacts during a men's singles second round match at the Japan Open at Ariake Tennis Forest Park in Tokyo on Oct. 5, 2011. Bernard Tomic of Australia beat Ito 6-7(4), 6-1, 7-5.

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World's cheapest Indian tablet

NEW DELHI, India - A student holds on Oct. 5, 2011 in New Delhi a tablet computer, nicknamed Aakash, which was unveiled and launched in the Indian capital by the government the same day. Aakash, which has been designed, developed and manufactured by the Britain-based DataWind Ltd. in association with the Indian Institute of Technology in Rajasthan under the Indian government's National Mission on Education through Information and Technology (NME-ICT), will carry a price as low as $38, making it the world's cheapest tablet computer.

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Murray advances to 2nd round at Japan Open

TOKYO, Japan - Andy Murray of Britain plays a shot during a men's singles first round match at the Japan Open at Ariake Tennis Forest Park in Tokyo on Oct. 5, 2011. The second-seeded Murray advanced to the second round by beating Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus 7-6(4), 2-6, 6-4.

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Academic forum in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - A two-day international academic forum begins at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Oct. 5, 2011. Researchers from Britain, China and the United States are among the participants in the forum.

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Japanese golfer Koga to retire

TAKASAKI, Japan - Japanese golfer Miho Koga wipes away tears as she formally announces that she will retire at the end of this season during a press conference in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, on Oct. 5, 2011. The 2008 Japan LPGA money winner has struggled since injuring her left wrist in May 2009.

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Japanese golfer Koga to retire

TAKASAKI, Japan - Japanese golfer Miho Koga announces that she will retire at the end of this season during a press conference in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, on Oct. 5, 2011. The 2008 Japan LPGA money winner has struggled since injuring her left wrist in May 2009.

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Fujifilm's new compact camera 'Fujifuilm X10'

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese actor Masahiro Motoki holds Fujifuilm Corp.'s compact camera ''Fujifilm X10'' in Tokyo on Oct. 5, 2011. The X10, featuring an ultra bright lens with a wide-angle maximum aperture of 2.0, is scheduled to hit store shelves on Oct. 22, 2011.

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Academic forum in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Peter Agre, a winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and professor in the molecular microbiology and immunology department at Johns Hopkins University in the United States, speaks at an international academic forum held at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Oct. 5, 2011.

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Apple's iPhone 4S

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Oct. 5, 2011, at an Apple store in Tokyo's Ginza district shows Apple Inc.'s new smartphone model iPhone 4S. Japanese telecommunication carriers KDDI Corp. and Softbank Mobile Corp., which will sell the iPhone 4S in Japan from Oct. 14, 2011, are expected to announce their price and rate plans as soon as Oct. 6. Participation by KDDI in iPhone sales would intensify competition in the smartphone market in Japan.

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S. Korean star Hyun Bin in Jakarta

JAKARTA, Indonesia - South Korean actor Hyun Bin (C) visits Jakarta to attend a commemoration ceremony for Indonesian forces in the Indonesian capital on Oct. 5, 2011, as a member of the South Korean delegation. The actor, who is very popular in Indonesia, has voluntarily joined South Korea's Marine Corps.

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Protesters in Athens

ATHENS, Greece - Members of labor unions march in front of the Greek finance ministry in Athens on Oct. 5, 2011, in protest against the latest waves of austerity measures by the government.

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Emperor Akihito visits Fuji Manufacturing

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito (R) visits Fuji Manufacturing Co., a manufacturer of metal and glass working machinery in Tokyo's Edogawa Ward, on Oct. 5, 2011. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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McLaren Automotive's new sports car MP4-12C

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows British automaker McLaren Automotive's MP4-12C which was unveiled in Japan for the first time on Oct. 5, 2011, in Tokyo. The automaker has started accepting orders for the lightweight, two-seat sports car, which utilizes technology that McLaren introduced to Formula One, at a price of 27.9 million yen.

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Emperor Akihito visits Fuji Manufacturing

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito (L) visits Fuji Manufacturing Co., a manufacturer of metal and glass working machinery in Tokyo's Edogawa Ward, on Oct. 5, 2011. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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ANA unit urged to devise steps following belly-up incident

TOKYO, Japan - Futoshi Osada (far L), director general of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism's Civil Aviation Bureau, gives a written directive to Koichi Uchizono (2nd from L), president of Air Nippon Co., a unit of All Nippon Airways Co., at the ministry in Tokyo on Oct. 5, 2011. The ministry ordered the company to take steps to prevent a recurrence of an in-flight operational error that caused one of its aircraft to briefly fly almost belly up when traveling from Okinawa to Tokyo in September.

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Public library reopens in disaster-hit Minamisanriku

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - People visit a makeshift public library in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on the opening day on Oct. 5, 2011. The town-run library lost almost all of its 30,000 books due to the March 11 earthquake and tsunami but reopened with 3,000 of some 10,000 donated books.

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Furniture retail chain Nitori's 1st mall

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken on Oct. 5, 2011, shows the first shopping mall of major furniture retail chain Nitori Holdings Co., which opened the same day in Higashiosaka, Osaka Prefecture.