Traditional dance performance in Kyoto

Traditional dance performance in Kyoto

Japanese traditional female entertainers called "maiko" take part in a final practice session in Kyoto on Sept. 28, 2024, ahead of their dance performances in October.

Traditional dance performance in Kyoto

Traditional dance performance in Kyoto

Japanese traditional female entertainers called "maiko" take part in a final practice session in Kyoto on Sept. 28, 2024, ahead of their dance performances in October.

Traditional dance performance in Kyoto

Traditional dance performance in Kyoto

Japanese traditional female entertainers called "maiko" take part in a final practice session in Kyoto on Sept. 28, 2024, ahead of their dance performances in October.

Japan PM to mark 1,000th day in office

Japan PM to mark 1,000th day in office

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida meets the press at the premier's office in Tokyo on June 28, 2024, as he is set to mark the following day the 1,000th day since he took office in October 2021.

Japan PM to mark 1,000th day in office

Japan PM to mark 1,000th day in office

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida meets the press at the premier's office in Tokyo on June 28, 2024, as he is set to mark the following day the 1,000th day since he took office in October 2021.

Japan PM to mark 1,000th day in office

Japan PM to mark 1,000th day in office

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida meets the press at the premier's office in Tokyo on June 28, 2024, as he is set to mark the following day the 1,000th day since he took office in October 2021.

Traditional dance performance in Kyoto

Traditional dance performance in Kyoto

Japanese traditional female entertainers called "maiko" take part in a final practice session in Kyoto on Sept. 28, 2023, ahead of their dance performances in October.

Traditional dance performance in Kyoto

Traditional dance performance in Kyoto

Japanese traditional female entertainers called "maiko" take part in a final practice session in Kyoto on Sept. 28, 2023, ahead of their dance performances in October.

Traditional dance performance in Kyoto

Traditional dance performance in Kyoto

Japanese traditional female entertainers called "maiko" take part in a final practice session in Kyoto on Sept. 28, 2023, ahead of their dance performances in October.

Traditional dance performance in Kyoto

Traditional dance performance in Kyoto

Japanese traditional female entertainers called "maiko" take part in a final practice session in Kyoto on Sept. 28, 2023, ahead of their dance performances in October.

Traditional dance performance in Kyoto

Traditional dance performance in Kyoto

Japanese traditional female entertainers called "maiko" take part in a final practice session in Kyoto on Sept. 28, 2023, ahead of their dance performances in October.

Water intake canal of China's central supply route

Water intake canal of China's central supply route

BEIJING, China - A water intake canal for the central route of the national "South-to-North Water Diversion Project" is photographed in Nanyang, Henan Province, on July 28, 2014. The route from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River to Beijing will open as early as late October amid concern over water contamination due to the presence of mines near the water source area.

Emperor, empress visit typhoon-hit Izu Oshima Island

Emperor, empress visit typhoon-hit Izu Oshima Island

OSHIMA, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito (C) and Empress Michiko speak to residents of a temporary housing complex on Izu Oshima Island, south of Tokyo, on Feb. 28, 2014. The volcanic island was hit hard by mudslides triggered by a powerful typhoon in October 2013. (Pool photo)

Emperor, empress visit typhoon-hit Izu Oshima Island

Emperor, empress visit typhoon-hit Izu Oshima Island

OSHIMA, Japan - Japanese Empress Michiko speaks to a woman and her baby at a temporary housing complex on Izu Oshima Island, south of Tokyo, on Feb. 28, 2014, during a visit with Emperor Akihito to the volcanic island, hit hard by mudslides triggered by a powerful typhoon in October 2013. (Pool photo)

Emperor, empress visit typhoon-hit Izu Oshima Island

Emperor, empress visit typhoon-hit Izu Oshima Island

OSHIMA, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito (C) and Empress Michiko (next to the emperor) offer silent prayers in an area hit hard by mudslides triggered by a powerful typhoon in October 2013 on Izu Oshima Island, south of Tokyo, on Feb. 28, 2014. Oshima Mayor Masafumi Kawashima is also seen in left. (Pool photo)

Emperor, empress visit typhoon-hit Izu Oshima Island

Emperor, empress visit typhoon-hit Izu Oshima Island

OSHIMA, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito (2nd from R) and Empress Michiko (far R) visit an area hit hard by mudslides triggered by a powerful typhoon in October 2013 on Izu Oshima Island, south of Tokyo, on Feb. 28, 2014. Tokyo Gov. Yoichi Masuzoe (far L) and Oshima Mayor Masafumi Kawashima (2nd from L) guided the imperial couple. (Pool photo)

Emperor, empress visit typhoon-hit Izu Oshima Island

Emperor, empress visit typhoon-hit Izu Oshima Island

OSHIMA, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito (L, facing) and Empress Michiko meet representatives of the volunteer workers who were involved in Izu Oshima Island's restoration operations after the island was hit by a powerful typhoon in October 2013, at the Oshima town hall on the island, south of Tokyo, on Feb. 28, 2014.

Emperor, empress visit typhoon-hit Izu Oshima Island

Emperor, empress visit typhoon-hit Izu Oshima Island

OSHIMA, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito (L, facing) and Empress Michiko meet representatives of the volunteer workers who were involved in Izu Oshima Island's restoration operations after the island was hit by a powerful typhoon in October 2013, at the Oshima town hall on the island, south of Tokyo, on Feb. 28, 2014.

Emperor, empress visit typhoon-hit Izu Oshima Island

Emperor, empress visit typhoon-hit Izu Oshima Island

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito (R, facing) and Empress Michiko (standing next to him) leave from Tokyo's Haneda airport for Izu Oshima Island, south of Tokyo, on Feb. 28, 2014. The volcanic island was hit hard by mudslides triggered by a powerful typhoon in October 2013.

Japanese man gunned down, wife seriously injured in Ecuador

Japanese man gunned down, wife seriously injured in Ecuador

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken in October, 2013, shows an urban area of Guayaquil, Ecuador. A Japanese couple -- a 28-year-old man and his 27-year-old wife -- was attacked by robbers on Dec. 28, 2013, while in Guayaquil on their honeymoon. The man died and the woman suffered serious injuries.

Oma nuclear power plant

Oma nuclear power plant

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows a nuclear power plant under construction in Oma, Aomori Prefecture, in October 2011. Electric Power Development Co. plans to resume construction of the plant by the end of 2012 in what would be the first such move since the 2011 crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, sources said on Sept. 28, 2012.

Ex-Giants star Yonamine dies

Ex-Giants star Yonamine dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in October 1974 shows Wally Yonamine (C), then manager of the Chunichi Dragons professional baseball club, being tossed in the air by Dragons players and fans after the club won the Central League championship at the former Chunichi Stadium in Nagoya. Yonamine, the first foreigner to play professional baseball in Japan after World War II, died in Honolulu on Feb. 28, 2011, aged 85 after battling prostate cancer.

Pyongyang after island attack

Pyongyang after island attack

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Kim Yong Hwang (L), a professor of linguistics at Kim Il Sung University, watches a recap of a parade of the North Korean People's Army in October on TV at his home in Pyongyang on Nov. 28, 2010. Kim, seated next to his granddaughter So Yon, criticized the United States for using an artillery exchange between the two Koreas as an excuse to send the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier George Washington to the Yellow Sea.

ASEAN nations seek to cement regional ties with music

ASEAN nations seek to cement regional ties with music

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam - Japanese conductor Yoshikazu Fukumura (C) addresses the audience at a performance in Ho Chi Minh City on May 28, 2010, by the symphony orchestra of Ho Chi Minh City Conservatory of Music. Fukumura plans to conduct an orchestra of musicians from Vietnam and nine other members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Hanoi in October.

Tokyo Stock Exchange

Tokyo Stock Exchange

Heavy sell in Tokyo Stock Exchange on October 28, 1997.

Tokyo Stock Exchange

Tokyo Stock Exchange

Heavy sell in Tokyo Stock Exchange on October 28, 1997.