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Huge iron pan made for national dumpling festival

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Members of an organizing committee for the fifth national "gyoza" dumpling festival pose before a huge iron pan in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Sept. 16, 2014. Capable of making 1,000 dumplings at a time and manufactured in cooperation with Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp.'s local Yahata mill, the pan will be an eye-catcher in the festival to be held in the southwestern Japan city on Oct. 4 and 5.

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Gate of pilot free trade zone in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, China - Cars go through a gate of the China Pilot Free Trade Zone in Shanghai on Sept. 16, 2014, before the zone's first anniversary on Sept. 29.

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Russian flag raised at naval facility in Crimean city

SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine - A Russian national flag is posted in place of a Ukrainian flag at a naval facility in Perevalnoye on the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula on Sept. 16, 2014.

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Russian tourists crowd beach in Yalta, Crimea

SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine - Russian tourists account for an overwhelming majority of bathers on a beach in Yalta on Sept. 16, 2014, after a lapse of six months since Russia's annexation of the Crimean Peninsula.

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Shoppers swarm vegetable shop in Simferopol amid shortage

SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine - A long line of shoppers is formed in front of a vegetable shop in Simferopol on Sept. 16, 2014, amid a food shortage since Russia's annexation of the Crimean Peninsula six months earlier.

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Egypt resumes restoration of oldest pyramid

SAQQARA, Egypt - Scaffolding for restoration work is seen at a 4,650-year-old pyramid in Saqqara, near Cairo, on Sept. 16, 2014. Egypt's Antiquities Ministry took journalists to the site, saying it has resumed work at the pyramid, believed to be the oldest one, for the first time in four years.

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Tanaka to make comeback Sept. 21 at Yankee Stadium

ST. PETERSBURG, United States - Right-hander Masahiro Tanaka of the New York Yankees speaks with reporters in St. Petersburg, Florida, on Sept. 16, 2014, after the team announced he will make his first start since July on Sept. 21 at Yankee Stadium against the Toronto Blue Jays. Tanaka has not pitched for the team since suffering an elbow injury on July 8.

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Egypt resumes restoration of oldest pyramid

SAQQARA, Egypt - Scaffolding for restoration work is seen at a 4,650-year-old pyramid in Saqqara, near Cairo, on Sept. 16, 2014. Egypt's Antiquities Ministry took journalists to the site, saying it has resumed work at the pyramid, believed to be the oldest one, for the first time in four years.

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U.N. chief Ban

NEW YORK, United States - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon holds a press conference at U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 16, 2014.

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Tanaka to make comeback Sept. 21 at Yankee Stadium

ST. PETERSBURG, United States - Right-hander Masahiro Tanaka of the New York Yankees speaks with reporters in St. Petersburg, Florida, on Sept. 16, 2014, after the team announced he will make his first start since July on Sept. 21 at Yankee Stadium against the Toronto Blue Jays. Tanaka has not pitched for the team since suffering an elbow injury on July 8.

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Tanaka to make comeback Sept. 21 at Yankee Stadium

ST. PETERSBURG, United States - Right-hander Masahiro Tanaka of the New York Yankees plays catch in St. Petersburg, Florida, on Sept. 16, 2014, after the team announced he will make his first start since July on Sept. 21 at Yankee Stadium against the Toronto Blue Jays. Tanaka has not pitched for the team since suffering an elbow injury on July 8.

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Tanaka to make comeback Sept. 21 at Yankee Stadium

ST. PETERSBURG, United States - Right-hander Masahiro Tanaka of the New York Yankees plays catch in St. Petersburg, Florida, on Sept. 16, 2014, after the team announced he will make his first start since July on Sept. 21 at Yankee Stadium against the Toronto Blue Jays. Tanaka has not pitched for the team since suffering an elbow injury on July 8.

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Daihatsu launches small, energy-efficient car in Malaysia

OSAKA, Japan - Daihatsu Motor Co. announces in Osaka, western Japan, on Sept. 16, 2014, the launch in Malaysia of the compact passenger car Axia, a low-priced energy-efficient vehicle, becoming the first automaker to clear the nation's eco-friendly vehicle standards.

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Architect Ban to receive Asia "Game Changer" awards

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Japanese architect Shigeru Ban. Ban is among the first group to receive the Game Changer Awards, a new award for leadership from the Asia Society, the organization said Sept. 16, 2014. Ban was recognized for his work designing disaster relief shelters which used recyclable cardboard paper tubes.

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Date-Krumm makes early exit in Pan Pacific Open

TOKYO, Japan - Kimiko Date-Krumm returns a shot to Belarusian Victoria Azarenka during the first round of the Pan Pacific Open on Sept. 16, 2014, at Ariake Colosseum in Tokyo. Azarenka won 3-6, 6-0, 6-2.

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S. Korean FM hopes to see improved ties with Japan

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung Se (R) meets with Fumio Sameshima, head of the Japan-Korea Cultural Foundation, at his office in Seoul on Sept. 16, 2014. Yun said people hope to see strained ties with Japan improve next year as it falls on the 50th anniversary of the normalization of bilateral diplomatic relations.

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Nara crashes out in Ariake

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Kurumi Nara returns a shot during the first round of the Pan Pacific Open on Sept. 16, 2014, against Spaniard Carla Suarez Navarro at Ariake Colosseum in Tokyo. Suarez Navarro beat Nara to advance to the second round with a 6-1, 2-6, 6-2 victory.

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BOJ on course for price goal, sees risks to exports: Kuroda

OSAKA, Japan - Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda (far R) makes a speech at a meeting of business leaders in Osaka, Japan, on Sept. 16, 2014. He said the central bank is on course to achieving its 2 percent inflation goal.

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Painter/poet Takeshita's unknown paintings found

TOKYO, Japan - A curator introduces two recently found paintings of renowned Japanese painter and poet Yumeji Takeshita (1884-1934) at the Takeshita Yumeji Museum in Tokyo on Sept. 16, 2014. Takeshita reportedly gave the paintings to a Japanese expatriate in Germany during a trip to Europe from 1932 to 1933.

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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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'Matsutake' mushrooms auctioned off for high price

HASHIMOTO, Japan - Hidenori Kawai, a food shop owner in Hashimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, shows "matsutake" mushrooms from Koya in the western Japan prefecture bought in his successful bid at a local market on Sept. 16, 2014. The highest winning bid was 60,000 yen per kilogram, which would fetch a retail price of around 10,000 apiece.

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Traditional mounted archery performed in Kamakura, Japan

KAMAKURA, Japan - An archer on a running horse shoots an arrow at a wooden target at the Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gu shrine in a show of traditional "Yabusame" Japanese archery in Kamakura, southwest of Tokyo, on Sept. 16, 2014. The martial art dates back to the beginning of the Kamakura period some 800 years ago.

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M5.6 quake hits north of Tokyo

SAKADO, Japan - Photo taken on Sept. 16, 2014, shows fallen ceiling boards at Kita-Sakado Station near Tokyo, after a strong earthquake measuring a preliminary magnitude of 5.6 struck parts of the Kanto region north of Tokyo.

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M5.6 quake hits north of Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Yohei Hasegawa, director of the Earthquake and Tsunami Observation Division of the Japan Meteorological Agency, holds a press conference on Sept. 16, 2014, at the agency in Tokyo, on a magnitude 5.6 quake that hit parts of the Kanto region north of Tokyo earlier in the day. The 12:28 p.m. quake registered lower 5 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 in parts of Tochigi, Gunma and Saitama prefectures, and 4 in Tokyo. There was no tsunami alert following the quake.

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DPJ endorses new leadership

MORIOKA, Japan - Photo shows the new leadership of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan after it was endorsed at a meeting of DPJ parliamentarians in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, on Sept. 16, 2014. The DPJ leadership comprises (from L) Katsuya Okada, a former party chief newly appointed as acting president, President Banri Kaieda, Acting President Yoshiaki Takaki, and Yukio Edano, newly appointed as secretary general.

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Eel-producing nations hold meeting in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - A two-day multilateral forum on the conservation of the endangered Japanese eel begins in Tokyo on Sept. 16, 2014, seeking to create the first international framework on managing the species as a marine resource. Japan, China, Taiwan and South Korea will debate regulations on the farming of the eel.

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Taiwan conducts military drill, with China in mind

TAIPEI, Taiwan - A Taiwan Air Force fighter plane lands on an expressway in Chiayi City, southwestern Taiwan, in a military exercise open to the press on Sept. 16, 2014, on the assumption that an airport had been damaged by Chinese ballistic missile attacks.