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Ex-Futaba mayor to run in Fukushima gubernatorial race

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Katsutaka Idogawa, former mayor of Futaba, home of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex, announces on Sept. 16, 2014, in the northeastern Japan city of Fukushima that he will run in the October Fukushima gubernatorial election. Idogawa served as Futaba mayor from December 2005 to February 2013.

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Bahraini king in China

BEIJING, China - Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa, King of Bahrain (L), and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang shake hands at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Sept. 16, 2013. (Pool photo)

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MRI International

LAS VEGAS, United States - Photo shows the head office of MRI International Inc. in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Sept. 16, 2013.

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Roger Pulvers

NEW YORK, United States - Roger Pulvers (3rd from L), 69, receives the Noma Award for the Translation of Japanese Literature at Japan Society in New York on Sept. 16, 2013, for his English translation of Kenji Miyazawa's "Strong in the Rain: Selected Poems."

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U.N. on Syria

NEW YORK, United States - British Ambassador to the United Nations Mark Lyall Grant speaks at a press conference at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 16, 2013. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon the same day turned in a report to the Security Council in which a team of experts concluded sarin nerve gas had been used on civilians in an attack the previous month in the suburbs of Damascus, Syria.

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U.N. on Syria

NEW YORK, United States - U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power speaks at a press conference at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 16, 2013. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon the same day turned in a report to the Security Council in which a team of experts concluded sarin nerve gas had been used on civilians in an attack the previous month in the suburbs of Damascus, Syria.

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U.N. on Syria

NEW YORK, United States - Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin speaks at a press conference at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 16, 2013. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon the same day turned in a report to the Security Council in which a team of experts concluded sarin nerve gas had been used on civilians in an attack the previous month in the suburbs of Damascus, Syria.

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Film director Sono

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Japanese film director Shion Sono. His "Why don't you play in hell?" has won an audience award at the Midnight Madness section specializing in action and horror films of the Toronto International Film Festival, its Japanese distributor said on Sept. 16, 2013.

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U.N. on Syria

NEW YORK, United States - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon (L) speaks at a press conference at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 16, 2013. Ban the same day turned in a report to the Security Council in which a team of experts concluded sarin nerve gas had been used on civilians in an attack the previous month in the suburbs of Damascus, Syria. To the right is Ake Sellstrom, head of the U.N. inspection team.

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S. Korean import ban on Japanese fisheries products

OSONG, South Korea - Kenji Kagawa (R front), director general of the Japanese Fisheries Agency's Resources Enhancement Promotion Department, meets officials at South Korea's Food and Drug Safety Ministry in Osong on Sept. 16, 2013. Japan asked South Korea to lift its latest import ban on fisheries products from Japanese prefectures imposed amid concern over leaks of radiation-contaminated water at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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Japanese minister at IAEA

VIENNA, Austria - Ichita Yamamoto, Japan's Cabinet minister in charge of science and technology policy, speaks at the annual general conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria, on Sept. 16, 2013. Yamamoto spelled out Japan's efforts to deal with radioactive water at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.

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Briefing on radioactive water

VIENNA, Austria - The Japanese government holds a briefing on issues such as efforts to deal with radioactive water at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station on Sept. 16, 2013, in Vienna, Austria, where the annual general conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency opened the same day.

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Typhoon hits Japan

KYOTO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Togetsukyo Bridge in Kyoto's Arashiyama area, a tourist spot, over the swollen Katsura River on Sept. 16, 2013, following heavy rain brought by Typhoon Man-yi.

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Kaesong trial operations begin

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean vehicles heading to a joint industrial zone in the North Korean border town of Kaesong are pictured at an inter-Korean transit office in Dorasan, South Korea, on Sept. 16, 2013. The two Koreas reopened the industrial zone on a trial basis the same day, five months after it was closed amid heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

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S. Korean import ban on Japanese fisheries products

OSONG, South Korea - Kenji Kagawa, director general of the Japanese Fisheries Agency's Resources Enhancement Promotion Department, visits South Korea's Food and Drug Safety Ministry in Osong on Sept. 16, 2013. Japan asked South Korea to lift its latest import ban on fisheries products from Japanese prefectures imposed amid concern over leaks of radiation-contaminated water at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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Typhoon hits Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows buildings damaged by strong winds in Midori, Gunma Prefecture, as Typhoon Man-yi hit Japan on Sept. 16, 2013.

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Kaesong trial operations begin

SEOUL, South Korea - Kim Ki Woong, South Korea's chief delegate heading to talks with the North Korean side in a joint industrial in the North Korean border town of Kaesong, is pictured at an inter-Korean transit office in Dorasan, South Korea, on Sept. 16, 2013. The two Koreas reopened the industrial zone on a trial basis the same day, five months after it was closed amid heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

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Typhoon hits Japan

OBAMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a flooded area in Obama, Fukui Prefecture, on Sept. 16, 2013, following heavy rain brought by Typhoon Man-yi.

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Typhoon hits Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows buildings that collapsed in strong winds in Kumagaya, Saitama Prefecture, as Typhoon Man-yi hit Japan on Sept. 16, 2013.

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Kaesong trial operations begin

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean managers and workers heading to a joint industrial zone in the North Korean border town of Kaesong are pictured at an inter-Korean transit office in Dorasan, South Korea, on Sept. 16, 2013. The two Koreas reopened the industrial zone on a trial basis the same day, five months after it was closed amid heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

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Kaesong trial operations begin

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean vehicles heading to a joint industrial zone in the North Korean border town of Kaesong are pictured at an inter-Korean transit office in Dorasan, South Korea, on Sept. 16, 2013. The two Koreas reopened the industrial zone on a trial basis the same day, five months after it was closed amid heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

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Typhoon hits Japan

OBAMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a flooded area in Obama, Fukui Prefecture, on Sept. 16, 2013, following heavy rain brought by Typhoon Man-yi.

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Typhoon hits Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows buildings that collapsed in strong winds in Kumagaya, Saitama Prefecture, as Typhoon Man-yi hit Japan on Sept. 16, 2013.

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Typhoon hits Japan

OBAMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a flooded area in Obama, Fukui Prefecture, on Sept. 16, 2013, following heavy rain brought by Typhoon Man-yi.

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Typhoon hits Japan

OBAMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a flooded area in Obama, Fukui Prefecture, on Sept. 16, 2013, following heavy rain brought by Typhoon Man-yi.

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Typhoon hits Japan

KYOTO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a flooding in Fukuchiyama, Kyoto Prefecture, on Sept. 16, 2013, following heavy rain brought by Typhoon Man-yi.

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Typhoon hits Japan

KYOTO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Togetsukyo Bridge in Kyoto's Arashiyama area, a tourist spot, over the swollen Katsura River and its flooded neighborhood on Sept. 16, 2013, following heavy rain brought by Typhoon Man-yi.

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N. Korean delegation in China

BEIJING, China - Ri Yong Ho, North Korea's chief negotiator at the long-stalled six-party talks, arrives at Beijing airport on Sept. 16, 2013. Ri was visiting the Chinese capital as part of a delegation for a seminar on the six-party talks aimed at ending Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program.

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N. Korean delegation in China

BEIJING, China - North Korean First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan arrives at Beijing airport on Sept. 16, 2013. Kim is leading a delegation for a seminar on the six-party talks aimed at ending Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program.

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Typhoon hits Japan

KYOTO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a flooding in Fukuchiyama, Kyoto Prefecture, on Sept. 16, 2013, following heavy rain brought by Typhoon Man-yi.

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Japanese defense minister in Vietnam

HANOI, Vietnam - Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera (L front) and Vietnamese Defense Minister Phung Quang Thanh receive an honor guard in Hanoi on Sept. 16, 2013.

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Typhoon hits Japan

KYOTO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows people at the swollen Katsura River in Kyoto's Ukyo Ward on Sept. 16, 2013, following heavy rain brought by Typhoon Man-yi.

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Typhoon hits Japan

KYOTO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Kyoto's flooded Arashiyama Park, a tourist spot, on Sept. 16, 2013, following heavy rain brought by Typhoon Man-yi.

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Typhoon hits Japan

KYOTO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a flooded residential area in Kyoto's Fushimi Ward on Sept. 16, 2013, following heavy rain brought by Typhoon Man-yi.

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Typhoon hits Japan

KYOTO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a flooded residential area in Kyoto's Fushimi Ward on Sept. 16, 2013, following heavy rain brought by Typhoon Man-yi.

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Typhoon hits Japan

KYOTO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Togetsukyo Bridge in Kyoto's Arashiyama area, a tourist spot, over the swollen Katsura River on Sept. 16, 2013, following heavy rain brought by Typhoon Man-yi.

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Typhoon hits Japan

OBAMA, Japan - Photo shows vehicles abandoned on a flooded road in Obama, Fukui Prefecture, on Sept. 16, 2013, following heavy rain brought by Typhoon Man-yi.