Search｜Photos & Images & Videos｜KYODO NEWS IMAGES INC

Myanmar's noted painter Win Pe shows his paintings

TOKYO, Japan - Noted Myanmar painter Win Pe explains his paintings at an exhibition in Yangon on Sept. 30, 2014. He says he can now freely paint what he wants, something impossible under the old military regime, as the country shifted to civilian rule in 2011.

E

Typhoon Jelawat in Japan

KIHO, Japan - Rough waves batter a breakwater in the town of Kiho, Mie Prefecture, on Sept. 30, 2011, as Typhoon Jelawat travels northeastward along the coast of western Japan. The harvest moon peeks out between the clouds.

E

Typhoon Jelawat in Japan

KIHO, Japan - Rough waves batter a breakwater in the town of Kiho, Mie Prefecture, on Sept. 30, 2011, as Typhoon Jelawat travels northeastward along the coast of western Japan. A rainbow, which appeared after the rain stopped, is seen. The powerful typhoon made landfall on the main island of Honshu later that day.

E

Typhoon Jelawat in Japan

KIHO, Japan - Rough waves batter a breakwater in the town of Kiho, Mie Prefecture, on Sept. 30, 2011, as Typhoon Jelawat travels northeastward along the coast of western Japan. The powerful typhoon made landfall on the main island of Honshu later that day.

E

Typhoon Jelawat in Japan

KIHO, Japan - Rough waves batter a breakwater in the town of Kiho, Mie Prefecture, on Sept. 30, 2011, as Typhoon Jelawat travels northeastward along the coast of western Japan. The powerful typhoon made landfall on the main island of Honshu later that day.

E

Typhoon Jelawat in Japan

KUSHIMOTO, Japan - High waves batter a breakwater in Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, on Sept. 30, 2011, as Typhoon Jelawat travels northeastward along the coast of western Japan.

E

Typhoon Jelawat in Japan

SHIRAHAMA, Japan - Rough waves batter the shores of Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture, on Sept. 30, 2011, as Typhoon Jelawat travels northeastward along the coast of western Japan.

E

Typhoon Jelawat in Japan

SHIRAHAMA, Japan - Rough waves batter the shores of Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture, on Sept. 30, 2011, as Typhoon Jelawat travels northeastward along the coast of western Japan.

E

Isuzu plant in Thailand

BANGKOK, Thailand - Photo taken on Sept. 30, 2011, shows the Gateway plant of Isuzu Motors Co. (Thailand), Japanese automaker Isuzu Motors Ltd.'s Thai subsidiary, in Chachoengsao Province, eastern Thailand, before major flooding.

E

U.S.-S. Korea joint drill

SEOUL, South Korea - The United States and South Korea hold a joint live-fire drill in Pocheon, Gyeonggi Province, on Sept. 30, 2011.

E

U.S.-S. Korea joint drill

SEOUL, South Korea - The United States and South Korea hold a joint live-fire drill in Pocheon, Gyeonggi Province, on Sept. 30, 2011.

E

Zvonareva advances to Pan Pacific final

TOKYO, Japan - Vera Zvonareva of Russia serves against Petra Kvitova of Czech Republic during a women's singles semifinal match in the Pan Pacific Open at Ariake Tennis Forest Park in Tokyo on Sept. 30, 2011. Zvonareva advanced to the final after beating Kvitova 7-6(2), 6-0.

E

Kvitova loses in Pan Pacific semifinal

TOKYO, Japan - Petra Kvitova of Czech Republic is seen during the women's singles semifinals in the Pan Pacific Open against Vera Zvonareva of Russia at Ariake Tennis Forest Park in Tokyo on Sept. 30, 2011. Zvonareva advanced to the final after beating Kvitova 7-6(2), 6-0.

E

Rolls-Royce luxury sedan

TOKYO, Japan - British luxury carmaker Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Ltd. unveils its new five-seater Ghost Extended Wheelbase sedan in Japan during an event in Tokyo on Sept. 30, 2011. The company said it has started taking orders for the vehicle.

E

Zvonareva advances to Pan Pacific final

TOKYO, Japan - Vera Zvonareva of Russia returns a shot against Petra Kvitova of Czech Republic during a women's singles semifinal match in the Pan Pacific Open at Ariake Tennis Forest Park in Tokyo on Sept. 30, 2011. Zvonareva advanced to the final after beating Kvitova 7-6(2), 6-0.

E

Michelin Guide for Hokkaido

SAPPORO, Japan - Nihon Michelin Tire Co. President Bernard Delmas (R) pays a courtesy visit to Hokkaido Gov. Harumi Takahashi at the governor's official residence in Sapporo, Hokkaido, on Sept. 30, 2011. The Hokkaido version of the Michelin Guide, a world famous restaurant guide, will be released in April 2012, the Tokyo-based unit of French tire maker Michelin said the same day, offering the third regional version in Japan following the Tokyo and western Japan editions.

E

Extra Diet session ends

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (2nd from R) and other lawmakers applaud in the Diet in Tokyo on Sept. 30, 2011, as an extraordinary Diet session, the first parliamentary session since the launch of the government under Noda on Sept. 2, ended the same day. A third extra budget for fiscal 2011 to finance postdisaster reconstruction efforts will be deliberated at the next session which is expected to be convened as early as mid-October.

E

Japan parliament to have special nuclear crisis panel

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows an upper house plenary session at the Diet in Tokyo on Sept. 30, 2011. The House of Councillors approved a bill submitted by the opposition camp to set up a special committee of experts in parliament to look into the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant triggered by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

E

Gov't workers' wages to be cut

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (R) receives an advisory from Takeshi Erikawa, president of the National Personnel Authority, on wages for central government workers at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 30, 2011. The personnel board proposed a 0.23% cut in monthly salaries for government workers in fiscal 2011 for the third straight yearly decline, leading to a 15,000 yen cut in their average annual salaries to 6.37 million yen.

E

Peach Aviation's uniforms

TOKYO, Japan - A man and women pose in cabin attendant uniforms of Peach Aviation Ltd. during the uniforms' unveiling event held by the company at Tokyo Big Sight in Tokyo on Sept. 30, 2011. Peach Aviation was established in February 2011 by All Nippon Airways Co. as a joint low-cost carrier with Hong Kong-based investment firms to operate flights from and to Kansai International Airport near Osaka city, beginning in March 2012.

E

Peach Aviation's uniforms

TOKYO, Japan - A man and women pose in cabin attendant uniforms of Peach Aviation Ltd. during the uniforms' unveiling event held by the company at Tokyo Big Sight in Tokyo on Sept. 30, 2011. Peach Aviation was established in February 2011 by All Nippon Airways Co. as a joint low-cost carrier with Hong Kong-based investment firms to operate flights from and to Kansai International Airport near Osaka city, beginning in March 2012.

E

LDP's Tanigaki at party meeting

TOKYO, Japan - Sadakazu Tanigaki (2nd from L), chief of the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party, attends a meeting of the party's General Council at its headquarters in Tokyo on Sept. 30, 2011. During the meeting, Tanigaki proposed making some changes in the party's executive lineup, including appointing Toshimitsu Motegi, chairman of the LDP's public relations section, as the party's new policy chief, which was approved.

E

S. Korea's ruling party chief visits N. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - Hong Joon Pyo (C), chairman of South Korea's Grand National Party, waves at the inter-Korean transit office in Paju, South Korea, on Sept. 30, 2011, before touring a joint inter-Korean industrial complex in North Korea's border city of Kaesong. It is the first trip to North Korea by a leader of the South Korean ruling party under the current South Korean administration of President Lee Myung Bak launched in 2008.

E

Redevelopment of WTC site in N.Y.

NEW YORK, United States - Photo taken on Aug. 30, 2011, shows the World Trade Center site in New York where redevelopment works are underway to reshape the Manhattan skyline. The United States will mark the 10th anniversary next month of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.