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2011 disaster: sporting goods store then and now

SENDAI, Japan - Shoes and clothes from "Ken Sports," a sporting goods store in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, are distributed to survivors of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami free of charge, as shown in the photo (top) taken on March 19, 2011. Storekeeper Kensuke Sasaki and his wife Reiko stand in the store as shown in the photo (bottom) taken on Sept. 5, 2014.

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Abe visits Fukushima Daiichi plant

OKUMA, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to workers at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture on Sept. 19, 2013. Abe urged TEPCO to scrap the Nos. 5 and 6 reactors at the crippled plant that avoided meltdowns during the 2011 nuclear crisis. (Pool photo)

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Abe visits Fukushima Daiichi plant

OKUMA, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) speaks to reporters at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture on Sept. 19, 2013. Abe urged TEPCO to scrap the Nos. 5 and 6 reactors at the crippled plant that avoided meltdowns during the 2011 nuclear crisis. (Pool photo)

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Abe visits Fukushima Daiichi plant

OKUMA, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) sees off workers going to check tanks containing radioactive wastewater at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture on Sept. 19, 2013. Abe urged TEPCO to scrap the Nos. 5 and 6 reactors at the crippled plant that avoided meltdowns during the 2011 nuclear crisis. (Pool photo)

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in August 2013 shows (from L bottom) the Nos. 4, 3, 2, 1, 5 and 6 reactor buildings at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited the plant on Sept. 19 and urged TEPCO to scrap the Nos. 5 and 6 reactors at the crippled plant that avoided meltdowns during the 2011 nuclear crisis. The utility is moving ahead with decommissioning of the Nos. 1 to 4 units.

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in August 2013 shows (from L bottom) the Nos. 4, 3, 2, 1, 5 and 6 reactor buildings at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited the plant on Sept. 19 and urged TEPCO to scrap the Nos. 5 and 6 reactors at the crippled plant that avoided meltdowns during the 2011 nuclear crisis. The utility is moving ahead with decommissioning of the Nos. 1 to 4 units.

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter over the town of Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, on Sept. 18, 2013, shows the Nos. 5 (back) and 6 reactor buildings at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited the plant on Sept. 19 and urged TEPCO to scrap the Nos. 5 and 6 reactors at the crippled plant that avoided meltdowns during the 2011 nuclear crisis.

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Abe visits Fukushima Daiichi plant

OKUMA, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C), wearing a protective suit, inspects the area near a storage tank from which radioactive water was found to have leaked at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture on Sept. 19, 2013. Abe urged TEPCO to scrap the Nos. 5 and 6 reactors at the crippled plant that avoided meltdowns during the 2011 nuclear crisis. (Pool photo)

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Abe visits Fukushima Daiichi plant

OKUMA, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (3rd from R) inspects the area near a storage tank from which radioactive water was found to have leaked at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture on Sept. 19, 2013. Abe urged TEPCO to scrap the Nos. 5 and 6 reactors at the crippled plant that avoided meltdowns during the 2011 nuclear crisis. (Pool photo)

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Trip to burial sites for Japanese in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Sadao Masaki, the head of Seishinkai, a group of Japanese former residents of what is now North Korea, puts his hands together in prayer on Sept. 5, 2012, at a field believed to contain the remains of Japanese nationals who died in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula around the end of World War II, in a suburb of Pyongyang. The group concluded the same day a trip to North Korea during which they studied such sites and offered prayers. In the front are the remains which were said to have been found there in March 2011.

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Yosano to retire from politics

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Japanese veteran lawmaker Kaoru Yosano. He will not run in the next general election and will retire from politics due to health problems, sources close to him said on Sept. 5, 2012. Yosano joined the Cabinet of then Prime Minister Naoto Kan as economic and fiscal policy minister in January 2011 and played a major role in drawing up Japan's controversial sales tax hike plan.

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TEPCO's compensation management center

TOKYO, Japan - Workers inside a ''compensation management center'' in Tokyo run by Tokyo Electric Power Co. confirm the content of compensation claims from individuals for damage caused by the nuclear crisis at the company's Fukushima Daiichi power plant on Dec. 5, 2011. The utility on the same day began accepting the second round of compensation claims for the three-month period from Sept. 1.

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ALMA observatory in Chile

ATACAMA, Chile - Photo taken on Sept. 29, 2011, shows antennas of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international astronomy facility, located 5,000 meters above sea level in the Atacama region, northern Chile.

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Japanese observatory in Chile

ATACAMA, Chile - Takashi Miyata, an associate professor at the University of Tokyo, points to the university's astronomical observatory facility on Mt. Chajnantor in northern Chile on Sept. 29, 2011. The facility is over 5,000 meters above sea level and Miyata is wearing an oxygen device to cope with the high altitude.

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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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Wozniacki loses in 3rd round at Pan Pacific

TOKYO, Japan - Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark returns a shot against Kaia Kanepi of Estonia in a women's singles third-round match at the Pan Pacific Open tennis championships at Ariake Tennis Forest Park in Tokyo on Sept. 28, 2011. The top seed Wozniacki lost to unseeded Kanepi 7-5, 1-6, 6-4.

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Mariners' Ichiro vs. Rangers

ARLINGTON, United States - Seattle Mariners leadoff man Ichiro Suzuki hits a run-scoring single to left in the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Texas Rangers at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Texas, on Sept. 23, 2011. Ichiro went 1-for-4 with an RBI in a 5-3 loss by the Mariners.

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Mariners' Ichiro vs. Twins

MINNEAPOLIS, United States - Seattle Mariners leadoff man Ichiro Suzuki raps an RBI double to right-center in the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Minnesota Twins at Target Field in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Sept. 21, 2011. Ichiro went 2-for-4 with an RBI in a 5-4 victory by the Mariners.

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Mariners' Ichiro vs. Indians

CLEVELAND, United States - Seattle Mariners leadoff man Ichiro Suzuki rounds first base after hitting a run-scoring double down the left-field line in the third inning of a baseball game against the Cleveland Indians at Progressive Field in Cleveland, Ohio, on Sept. 19, 2011. Ichiro went 2-for-5 with an RBI in a 12-6 victory for the Mariners. The game was shortened to seven innings by rain.

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Mariners' Ichiro vs. Indians

CLEVELAND, United States - Seattle Mariners leadoff man Ichiro Suzuki hits a run-scoring double down the left-field line in the third inning of a baseball game against the Cleveland Indians at Progressive Field in Cleveland, Ohio, on Sept. 19, 2011. Ichiro went 2-for-5 with an RBI in a 12-6 victory for the Mariners. The game was shortened to seven innings by rain.

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Mariners' Ichiro vs. Indians

CLEVELAND, United States - Seattle Mariners leadoff man Ichiro Suzuki singles to right in the first inning of a baseball game against the Cleveland Indians at Progressive Field in Cleveland, Ohio, on Sept. 19, 2011. Ichiro went 2-for-5 with an RBI in a 12-6 victory for the Mariners. The game was shortened to seven innings by rain.

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Indians' Fukudome vs. Twins

MINNEAPOLIS, United States - Cleveland Indians right fielder Kosuke Fukudome singles to left in the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Minnesota Twins at Target Field in Minneapolis on Sept. 18, 2011. Fukudome went 1-for-4 in a 6-5 win for the Indians.

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Nishikori in Davis Cup World Group playoff

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Kei Nishikori celebrates after defeating Vishnu Vardhan of India 7-5, 6-3, 6-3, in a Davis Cup World Group playoff at Ariake Colosseum in Tokyo on Sept. 18, 2011.

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Nishikori in Davis Cup World Group playoff

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Kei Nishikori returns the ball to Vishnu Vardhan of India in a Davis Cup World Group playoff at Ariake Colosseum in Tokyo on Sept. 18, 2011. Nishikori won the match 7-5, 6-3, 6-3.

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Stray whale shark named 'Tsurubei'

TSURUGA, Japan - Photo shows a young whale shark, thought to be 5 to 6 years old, swimming out into Tsuruga Bay, Fukui Prefecture, on Sept. 8, 2011. The shark has been nicknamed ''Tsurubei'' by the Tsuruga Tourism Association through public solicitation.

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Mariners' Ichiro vs. Yankees

SEATTLE, United States - Seattle Mariners leadoff man Ichiro Suzuki hits a single in the ninth inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees at Safeco Field in Seattle on Sept. 13, 2011. Ichiro went 1-for-5 in a 3-2 loss for the Mariners.

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Mariners' Ichiro vs. Yankees

SEATTLE, United States - Seattle Mariners leadoff man Ichiro Suzuki hits a run-scoring single to right during the third inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees at Safeco Field in Seattle on Sept. 12, 2011. Ichiro went 1-for-5 with an RBI in a 3-9 loss for the Mariners.

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Federer loses at U.S. Open semifinal

NEW YORK, United States - Roger Federer of Switzerland closes his eyes after losing to Novak Djokovic of Serbia in a men's singles seminal match at the U.S. Open tennis championships in New York on Sept. 10, 2011. The first-seeded Djokovic defeated the third-seeded Federer 6-7, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, 7-5 to advance to the final.

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Djokovic advances to U.S. Open final

NEW YORK, United States - Novak Djokovic of Serbia returns a shot against Roger Federer of Switzerland in a men's singles semifinal match at the U.S. Open tennis championship in New York on Sept. 10, 2011. The first-seeded Djokovic came from behind to win the match 6-7, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, 7-5 to advance to the final.

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Murray in U.S. Open

NEW YORK, United States - Andy Murray of Britain reacts during a men's singles quarterfinal match against John Isner of the United States at the U.S. Open tennis championships in New York on Sept. 9, 2011. Murray advanced to the semifinals after beating Isner 7-5, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6.

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Murray in U.S. Open

NEW YORK, United States - Andy Murray of Britain returns a shot against John Isner of the United States in a men's singles quarterfinal match of the U.S. Open tennis championships in New York on Sept. 9, 2011. Murray advanced to the semifinals by beating Isner 7-5, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6.

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S. Williams advances to U.S. Open semifinals

NEW YORK, United States - Serena Williams of the United States pumps her fist during the U.S. Open tennis championships in New York on Sept. 8, 2011. Williams advanced to the women's singles semifinals by beating Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia 7-5, 6-1 in the quarterfinals.

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S. Williams advances to U.S. Open semifinals

NEW YORK, United States - Serena Williams of the United States returns a shot against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia in a women's singles quarterfinal match at the U.S. Open tennis championships in New York on Sept. 8, 2011. Williams advanced to the semifinals after beating Pavlyuchenkova 7-5, 6-1.

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S. Williams at U.S. Open

NEW YORK, United States - Serena Williams of the United States returns a shot against Ana Ivanovic of Serbia in a women's fourth-round match at the U.S. Open tennis championships in New York on Sept. 5, 2011. Williams advanced to the quarterfinals after beating Ivanovic 6-3, 6-4.

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6 months after Japan quake, tsunami

OFUNATO, Japan - Photos taken from a Kyodo News helicopter of the downtown area of Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, (from top) on March 13, June 3 and Sept. 5, 2011, show that debris in the area, hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, has almost been cleared away.

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6 months after Japan quake, tsunami

KESENNUMA, Japan - Photos taken from a Kyodo News helicopter of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, (from L) on March 24, June 3 and Sept. 5, 2011, show that fishing boats swept ashore by the March 11 tsunami have been removed.

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Serena Williams advances to U.S. Open quarterfinals

NEW YORK, United States - Serena Williams (L) of the United States shakes hands with Ana Ivanovic of Serbia after defeating Ivanovic 6-3, 6-4 in a women's singles fourth-round match at the U.S. Open tennis championships in New York on Sept. 5, 2011. Williams advanced to the quarterfinals where she will meet Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia.

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Japan-America Society of New Hampshire

PORTSMOUTH, United States - Japanese Consul General in Boston Takeshi Hikihara (L) notifies Charles Doleac, president of the Japan-America Society of New Hampshire, that he will receive the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette, from the Japanese government in recognition of his contributions to promoting friendship between Japan and the United States, during a ceremony held Sept. 5, 2011 at a hotel in suburban Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The Treaty of Portsmouth was signed near Portsmouth in September 1905, ending the Japan-Russo war.

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Indians' Fukudome homers against Tigers

CLEVELAND, United States - Kosuke Fukudome of the Cleveland Indians hits a solo home run to right-center in the eighth inning of a game against the Detroit Tigers at Progressive Field in Cleveland, Ohio, on Sept. 5, 2011. The Indians were defeated 4-2.

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Landmines left in Tripoli

TRIPOLI, Libya - A man walks past a pile of landmines (L back) deserted near a residential area in southern Tripoli on Sept. 5, 2011. A total of over 10,000 preplanted landmines that are believed to have been left behind by Muammar Gaddafi's forces have been discovered there, according to a member of Libyan opposition group the National Transitional Council.

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Japanese industry minister Hachiro in interview

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's new industry minister Yoshio Hachiro speaks during an interview with Kyodo News and other media outlets in Tokyo on Sept. 5, 2011.

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N., S. Korea joint Buddhist service

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Buddhist monks from North (L) and South Korea (R) pray for the reunification of the two Koreas during a joint service at Pohyon Temple on Mt. Myohyang in North Korea on Sept. 5, 2011.

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Serena Williams advances to U.S. Open quarterfinals

NEW YORK, United States - Serena Williams of the United States plays a shot against Ana Ivanovic of Serbia in a women's singles fourth-round match at the U.S. Open tennis championships in New York on Sept. 5, 2011. Williams advanced to the quarterfinals after defeating Ivanovic 6-3, 6-4.

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Djokovic advances to U.S. Open quarterfinals

NEW YORK, United States - Novak Djokovic of Serbia returns a shot against Alexandr Dolgopolov of Ukraine in a men's singles fourth-round match at the U.S. Open tennis championships in New York on Sept. 5, 2011. Djokovic advanced to the quarterfinals by beating Dolgopolov 7-6, 6-4, 6-2.

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Typhoon causes havoc in Japan

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Sept. 5, 2011, shows Kumano Nachi Taisha, a Shinto shrine in Nachikatsuura, Wakayama Prefecture, after a mudslide triggered by Typhoon Talas.

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Japan prepare for away match against Uzbekistan

TASHKENT, Uzbekistan - Captain Makoto Hasebe (L) and coach Alberto Zaccheroni of Japan's national soccer team attend a press conference in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on Sept. 5, 2011. Japan will play against Uzbekistan the following day in the third-round qualifiers for the 2014 World Cup.

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N., S. Korea joint Buddhist service

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Buddhist monks from North Korea (L) and South Korea (R) jointly held a service to pray for the reunification of the two Koreas at Pohyon Temple on Mt. Myohyang in North Korea on Sept. 5, 2011.

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Typhoon causes havoc in Japan

NACHIKATSUURA, Japan - Residents of Nachikatsuura, Wakayama Prefecture, line up in front of a water tanker parked at the Nachikatsuura town government office on Sept. 5, 2011.