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Classroom-like bar in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Customers drink in the ''science room'' at ''Koshitsu Izakaya 6-Nen 4-Kumi Shibuya Dai-Ichi Bunko'' (Private-Booth Bar: Sixth Grade, Fourth Class in the Shibuya Branch School), a bar featuring booths resembling school classrooms in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward, on Sept. 3, 2010.

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ERINA researcher Mimura

CHANGCHUN, China - Mitsuhiro Mimura, an associate senior researcher at the Economic Research Institute for Northeast Asia, poses during an interview in Changchun, China, on Sept. 3, 2010. Mimura said China has pushed North Korea into adopting a so-called ''reform and opening-up policy,'' while the North's economic development has become increasingly dependent on China.

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Murray advances to 3rd round

NEW YORK, United States - Andy Murray of Britain plays a return shot during the second round of the U.S. Open men's singles against Dustin Brown of Jamaica on Sept. 3, 2010, in New York. Murray advanced to the third round.

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N. Korea farmers harvest apples

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Farmers harvest apples at the Taedonggang Combined Fruit Farm on the outskirts of Pyongyang on Sept. 3, 2010, ahead of a closely watched conference of the Workers' Party of Korea.

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N. Korea farmers harvest apples

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Farmers harvest apples at the Taedonggang Combined Fruit Farm on the outskirts of Pyongyang on Sept. 3, 2010, ahead of a closely watched conference of the Workers' Party of Korea.

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Japan to take on Paraguay in friendly

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Paraguay coach Gerardo Martino speaks during a press conference in Yokohama on Sept. 3, 2010, prior to a friendly match against Japan.

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Japan to take on Paraguay in friendly

YOKOHAMA, Japan - New Japan coach Alberto Zaccheroni watches a practice session from the stands at Nissan Stadium in Yokohama on Sept. 3, 2010, prior to a friendly match against Paraguay.

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Japan to take on Paraguay in friendly

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Japan acting coach Hiromi Hara speaks during a press conference in Yokohama on Sept. 3, 2010, prior to a friendly match against Paraguay.

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Senior lawmaker announces pregnancy

TOKYO, Japan - Seiko Noda (R), a senior lawmaker of the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party, hugs LDP lawmaker Seiko Hashimoto during a fundraising party for Noda in Tokyo on Sept. 3, 2010. The former postal minister officially announced she is pregnant as she turned 50 the same day.

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Senior lawmaker announces pregnancy

TOKYO, Japan - Seiko Noda, a senior lawmaker of the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party, smiles during a fundraising party in Tokyo on Sept. 3, 2010. The former postal minister officially announced she is pregnant as she turned 50 the same day.

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Japan to take on Paraguay in friendly

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Japan striker Keisuke Honda (C) and teammates compete for the ball during a practice session at Nissan Stadium in Yokohama on Sept. 3, 2010, prior to a friendly match against Paraguay.

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Countdown to Doraemon museum

KAWASAKI, Japan - A countdown signboard is set up at a railway station in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Sept. 3, 2010. The signboard installed on a monument featuring Doraemon's ''Wherever Door'' marks one year to the opening of the Fujiko F. Fujio Museum.

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Ichiro 2-for-4

SEATTLE, United States - Seattle Mariners right fielder Ichiro Suzuki doubles to center in the third inning of a game against the Cleveland Indians at Safeco Field in Seattle on Sept. 3, 2010. Ichiro went 2-for-4 as his team lost 6-3.

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Kan meets union leader

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Naoto Kan (C) meets Nobuaki Koga (front), leader of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, Japan's largest labor union association known as Rengo, in Tokyo on Sept. 3, 2010.

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Ichiro 2-for-4

SEATTLE, United States - Seattle Mariners right fielder Ichiro Suzuki hits an infield single to short in the first inning of a game against the Cleveland Indians at Safeco Field in Seattle on Sept. 3, 2010. Ichiro went 2-for-4 as his team lost 6-3.

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Ichiro 2-for-4

SEATTLE, United States - Seattle Mariners right fielder Ichiro Suzuki doubles to center in the third inning of a game against the Cleveland Indians at Safeco Field in Seattle on Sept. 3, 2010. Ichiro went 2-for-4 as his team lost 6-3.

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Ichiro 2-for-4

SEATTLE, United States - Seattle Mariners right fielder Ichiro Suzuki doubles to center in the third inning of a game against the Cleveland Indians at Safeco Field in Seattle on Sept. 3, 2010. Ichiro went 2-for-4 as his team lost 6-3.

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Kan's Cabinet approves fresh sanctions against Iran

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Naoto Kan (C), Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada (L) and transport minister Seiji Maehara wait for the Cabinet meeting to start at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 3, 2010. The Cabinet approved additional sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program.

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Hiroshima epicenter's prewar landscape restored through CG

HIROSHIMA, Japan - An audiences watches the 60-minute movie, ''Unrecognized Loss: A Message from Hiroshima,'' which uses computer graphics to recreate the Hiroshima City area that became the epicenter of the 1945 atomic bombing, during a screening at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima on Sept. 3, 2010.

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Ozawa asks support for DPJ leadership election

TOKYO, Japan - Ichiro Ozawa, powerful lawmaker of the Democratic Party of Japan, and Ryoko Tani, popular Olympic gold medalist judo wrestler and a rookie upper house lawmaker, shake hands at a Diet member building in Tokyo on Sept. 3, 2010. Ozawa visited DPJ lawmakers to ask for their support in the Sept. 14 presidential election of the ruling party, in which he will run against Prime Minister Naoto Kan.

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A-bomb icon Sadako's brother appeals for peace at N.Y. ceremony

NEW YORK, United States - Masahiro Sasaki (L) meets a relative (R) of a victim of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the United States in New York on May 3, 2010. Sasaki is the older brother of Sadako Sasaki, who died a decade after surviving the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima in August 1945.

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'Doraemon' author's museum to feature 50,000 original drawings

TOKYO, Japan - Masako Fujimoto (2nd from L), the widow of Fujiko F. Fujio who created ''Doraemon,'' poses for photographs during a press conference at a hotel in Tokyo on March 29, 2010, at which the outlines of a museum dedicated to the cartoonist were unveiled. The Fujiko F. Fujio Museum is scheduled to open on Sept. 3, 2011, in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, the city where he spent more than three decades until his death in 1996.