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Search continues on Mt. Ontake

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows members of a search team getting off a helicopter near the top of snowcapped Mt. Ontake in central Japan on Oct. 15, 2014, to resume searching for seven climbers who remain missing following the deadly eruption Sept. 27 of the 3,067-meter volcano, which has claimed 56 lives.

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Search continues on Mt. Ontake

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Self-Defense Forces at the top of snowcapped Mt. Ontake in central Japan on Oct. 15, 2014, searching for seven climbers who remain missing following the deadly eruption Sept. 27 of the 3,067-meter volcano, which has claimed 56 lives.

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Snowcapped Mt. Ontake

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Oct. 15, 2014, shows snowcapped Mt. Ontake in central Japan, whose eruption Sept. 27 has claimed 56 lives with seven people remaining missing. Kengamine, the highest peak of the mountain, is seen in the background and one of its ponds, called Ninoike, is seen in front.

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Young author calls for end to animal euthanasia

TOKYO, Japan - Manami Mukai, a pet care school student hoping to be a groomer, calls for an end to the euthanasia of pet animals in her book titled "Inochi no Hana" (Flower of Life), as shown in this file photo taken on Sept. 15, 2014.

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Cosmetic surgery booming in land of smiles

BANGKOK, Thailand - Dr. Samphan Khomrit, secretary general of the Medical Council of Thailand, speaks of his country's cosmetic surgery trend in an interview in Bangkok on Sept. 15, 2014. The Thai cosmetic surgery market, which has roughly doubled or tripled in the past five years, is expected to grow even bigger as ASEAN prepares to launch a common market in 2015.

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Vietnam's biggest waterfalls attract visitors on rafts

DAM THUY, Vietnam - A raft full of tourists approaches the Ban Gioc waterfalls straddling the border between China and Vietnam on Sept. 15, 2014.

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Vietnam's biggest waterfalls attract visitors on rafts

DAM THUY, Vietnam - Vietnamese vendors on a raft approach another raft carrying Chinese tourists in front of the Ban Gioc waterfalls straddling the border between China and Vietnam on Sept. 15, 2014.

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Disaster-hit Route 6 stretch in Fukushima opened to traffic

TOMIOKA, Japan - A police vehicle heads out on patrol on Sept. 15, 2014, on a closed stretch of National Route 6 running north to south along the coast in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, after being opened to traffic for the first time since the March 2011 nuclear disaster.

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F-22 stealth fighter on tarmac for U.S. military drill

GUAM, United States - A cutting-edge F-22 stealth fighter stands on the tarmac for maintenance on Sept. 15, 2014, during a U.S. military exercise in the Pacific Ocean off Guam. The drill, called "Valiant Shield 2014," was shown to some media.

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U.S. rear admiral explains aim of Pacific military drill

GUAM, United States - Rear Adm. Russell Allen, deputy commander of the U.S. 7th Fleet, briefs reporters on the purpose of a military exercise in the Pacific Ocean in Guam on Sept. 15, 2014, the first day of the nine-day drill.

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Osaka student cycles across N. America in 2 months

NEW YORK, United States - Takuya Shirasawa (L), a vocational school student in Osaka, western Japan, celebrates with his former teacher Yoshiharu Higa in New York on Sept. 15, 2014, after cycling from San Francisco to New York in about two months, emulating Higa's similar achievement.

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Japan firm opens 'shabu-shabu' restaurant in N.Y.

NEW YORK, United States - A staffer demonstrates how to cook thin slices of beef parboiled in hot soup at the first U.S. restaurant of "Shabu-Shabu Kobe" in New York operated by Kobe Bussan Co. of the western Japan city on Sept. 15, 2014.

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Astronaut Noguchi 1st Asian to head space explorers' group

BEIJING, China - Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi lectures at a Japanese school in Beijing on Sept. 15, 2014. He was selected as head of the Huston, Texas-based Association of Space Explorers as the first Asian to assume the post.

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IWC kicks off general meeting

PORTOROZ, Slovenia - The Japanese delegation attends a general meeting of the International Whaling Commission that started on Sept. 15, 2014, in Portoroz, Slovenia. Japan will express its intention to continue its so-called research whaling.

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H.K. activists say they will "fish" off Senkakus

HONG KONG, China - Hong Kong activists claiming Chinese sovereignty over the Japanese-administered Senkaku islets in East China Sea set sail for a "fishing" voyage there from Hong Kong on Sept. 15, 2014.

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Footage of "comfort women" interviews released

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea's Association for the Pacific War Victims releases footage of 1993 interviews with women known as former "comfort women" on Sept. 15, 2014, in Seoul. The interviews were conducted at the office of the association in July 1993 by the Japanese government with victims of World War II sexual slavery to produce a 1993 apology known as the Kono statement.

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IWC kicks off general meeting

PORTOROZ, Slovenia - The International Whaling Commission begins a general meeting on Sept. 15, 2014, in Portoroz, Slovenia. Japan will express its intention to continue its so-called research whaling.

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IAEA remains dubious about Iran's nuclear stance

VIENNA, Austria - Yukiya Amano, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, says at the IAEA's regular board meeting in Vienna on Sept. 15, 2014, that the U.N. nuclear watchdog takes a dim view of Iran's oft-delayed promise to meet its confidence-building obligations designed to ensure that its nuclear program is purely for peaceful purposes.

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Gathering on issue of abductions by N. Korea

AKITA, Japan - Midori Amanai, elder sister of Kahoru Kimura who went missing in 1960 in Akita at age 21, shows a quilt sent from supporters during a gathering to think about the issue of abductions by North Korea held in the northeastern Japanese city on Sept. 15, 2014. North Korea's involvement is suspected in the disappearance of Kimura.

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100th day since death of Prince Katsura observed

TOKYO, Japan - Princess Akiko performs the role of chief mourner at a Tokyo cemetery on Sept. 15, 2014, in a ceremony marking the first 100 days since the death of her uncle Prince Katsura on June 8. She offered a "sakaki" tree branch decorated with strips of "washi" Japanese paper at his grave at the Toshimagaoka Cemetery.

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Official record of Emperor Hirohito's life

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken Sept. 15, 1923, shows Crown Prince Hirohito (L front) during his visit to Tokyo's Ueno Park to inspect fire damage following the magnitude 7.9 Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated the Japanese capital and its vicinity on Sept. 1 that year. On Sept. 9, 2014, the Imperial Household Agency released the official record it compiled of the 87-year life of Emperor Hirohito, posthumously known as Emperor Showa.