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Fashion Designer Giorgio Armani Dead at 91

MILAN - MILAN - GUESTS AT THE GIORGIO ARMANI FASHION SHOW WITH MIRA SOVINO AND SOFIA LOREN (MILAN - 2002, September 30, Maurizio Maule/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Fashion Designer Giorgio Armani Dead at 91

MILAN - MILAN - GUESTS AT THE GIORGIO ARMANI FASHION SHOW WITH GEORGE CLOONEY (MILAN - 2002, September 30, Maurizio Maule/ABACAPRESS.COM

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KC-10 refueling a B-2 bomber

A KC-135 Stratotanker refuels a Northrop B-2 Spirit bomber in the air over an undisclosed location. This photo was released by the United States Department of Defense on September 4, 2002. Photo by United States Department of Defense via CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Nicolas Sarkozy in Damascus

In just over ten days, Syrian rebels have taken control of Syria's main cities, including the capital Damascus on Saturday night. President Bashar al-Assad, in power since 2000, has fled the country, according to Russia - FILE - French President Nicolas Sarkozy is welcomed by his Syrian counterpart Bashar al Assad at his Presidential Palace in Damascus, September 3, 2008. Sarkozy's trip to Syria is the first by a French president since 2002 and marks a further warming of relations between the two countries following a visit by Assad to Paris in July. Photo pool by Philippe Wojazer/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration For US Election Day

File photo dated September 10, 2002 - American flags are all over the 2 World Financial Plaza, near Ground Zero, a few hours prior to the 9/11 terrorist attacks one year anniversary ceremonies. - American voters go to the polls on Tuesday to choose their next president. US election results are sometimes declared within hours of the polls closing, but this year's tight contest could mean a longer wait. Democratic Vice-President Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump, the former president, have been running neck-and-neck for weeks. Photo by Hahn-Khayat/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration For US Election Day

File photo dated September 9, 2002 - Various stock pictures of New York. Pictured here American flags invaded Battery Park City's port, adjacent to Ground Zero. - American voters go to the polls on Tuesday to choose their next president. US election results are sometimes declared within hours of the polls closing, but this year's tight contest could mean a longer wait. Democratic Vice-President Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump, the former president, have been running neck-and-neck for weeks. Photo by Nicolas Khayat/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Koizumi, Kim shake hands before summit meeting in 2002

TOKYO, Japan - Then Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (L) and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il shake hands before their summit meeting in Pyongyang in September 2002.

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Japan's Baseball Hall of Fame

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in September 2002 shows Japanese pitcher Hideo Nomo while playing for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Nomo was elected to Japan's Baseball Hall of Fame on Jan. 17, 2014.

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Poems translated into English by Empress Michiko published

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Empress Michiko delivering a speech at a meeting to mark the 50th anniversary of the International Board on Books for Young People in Basel, Switzerland, in September 2002. A collection of poems by Michio Mado has been translated into English by Empress Michiko and was published in June 2013 in two volumes.

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Mutsuko Miki, wife of late Prime Minister Takeo Miki, dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in September 2002 shows Mutsuko Miki, the wife of former Prime Minister Takeo Miki and a renowned activist. Mutsuko Miki died of colon cancer at a Tokyo hospital on July 31, 2012. She was 95.

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N. Korea's Kim Jong Il, Japan PM Koizumi

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in September 2002 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Il (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi shaking hands after holding talks at the Paekhwawon state guest house in Pyongyang. North Korea announced Dec. 19, 2011, that Kim Jong Il died on Dec. 17.

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Ex-Vice Foreign Minister Takeuchi to be Supreme Court justice

TOKYO, Japan - The Japanese government has decided to appoint former Vice Foreign Minister Yukio Takeuchi (file photo) as a Supreme Court justice, replacing Osamu Tsuno, who will retire, government officials said Thursday. Takeuchi, 65, held the top bureaucratic post at the Foreign Ministry from February 2002 to January 2005, assisting with then Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visits to North Korea in September 2002 and May 2004, and helping strengthen Japan-U.S. relations.

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Nukaga says he returned 2.2 mil. yen to defense supplier Yamada

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga is in a pensive mood at the House of Councillors Audit Committee on Nov. 19 during questioning about his relationships with scandal-hit defense equipment trader Yamada Corp. Nukaga said Yamada paid 2.2 million yen for his fundraising parties between 2002 and March this year but he has since returned all the money to the firm. Nukaga was defense chief from 1996 to 1998 and from September 2006 to July this year.

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Ex-Keidanren chief Hiraiwa dies at 92

TOKYO, Japan - A file photo taken in September 2002 shows Gaishi Hiraiwa, former chairman of the defunct Japan Federation of Economic Organizations, or Keidanren, who died on may 22 at age 92. Hiraiwa, a native of Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, was advisor to Tokyo Electric Power Co.

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Tokyo Electric also had reactor troubles

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s No. 2 Fukushima nulear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture. (File photo, taken in September 2002). Tokyo Electric says March 20 that it has unreported problems with reactor control rods at its Fukushima No. 2 nuclear power plant in Fukushima in June 1993 and at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in April 2000 during regular checkups. Three other regional electric power companies have also reported similar nuclear power plant control problems and prompted a government investigation.

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Negotiator for Japan-N. Korea talks named diplomat to U.S.

TOKYO, Japan - The government decided Jan. 20 to appoint Akitaka Saiki (in file photo), chief negotiator for Japan-North Korea governmental talks, as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the United States. Saiki, 53, currently deputy chief of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, has taken part in diplomacy with North Korea, with which Japan has no diplomatic relations, since September 2002.

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2 Uniqlo stores launched in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Photo shows one of two Uniqlo casual-clothing stores that opened in Beijing on Sept. 3. The first Uniqlo outlets in Beijing come as part of efforts by Fast Retailing Co. to boost businesses in the Asian market. The company has operated seven Uniqlo stores in Shanghai since September 2002 and opened one in Seoul, South Korea, on Sept. 2.

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(3)Kamato Hongo, world's oldest person, dies at 116

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Kamato Hongo, the world's oldest person, is presented with her Guinness Book of Records certificate in a photo taken in September 2002. She died at the age of 116 in a Kagoshima hospital on Oct. 31. Hongo was known for her routine of sleeping for two consecutive days and then staying awake for the next two days.

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Veteran Ku wins Vernal Ladies

AMAGI, Japan - Veteran Ku Ok Hee of South Korea smiles with her cup in hands after clinching a two-stroke victory at the Vernal Ladies golf tournament the Fukuoka Century Golf Club in Fukuoka Prefecture on May 18. It was the 46-year-old Ku's first victory since winning the Japan LPGA Championship in September 2002 and her 23rd overall title.

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(2)Marriage makes newly wed ozeki Asashoryu go ga-ga

TOKYO, Japan - Mongolian ozeki Asashoryu and his wife Gombotseren Tamir pose for a photograph at a news conference at a Tokyo hotel on Jan. 10. The couple filed marriage documents at the end of 2002 and plan to hold the ceremony some time after the autumn basho in September 2003.

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Hagoita reflect 2002

TOKYO, Japan - A Tokyo dollmaker began its annual display Dec. 4 of specially crafted Hagoita, or battledores, featuring world images from 2002. Newly designed Hagoita depict Nobel prize laureates Koichi Tanaka and Masatoshi Koshiba (L), Japanese maestro Seiji Ozawa, who became musical director of the Vienna State Opera in September (R) and free agent Japanese slugger Hideki Matsui who seeks to play in the major leagues next season.

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Softbank stays in red on start-up cost for broadband service

TOKYO, Japan - Softbank Corp. President Masayoshi Son speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 15. The company incurred a group net loss of 55.80 billion yen in the April-September first half of fiscal 2002, up slightly from a loss of 54.32 billion yen a year earlier. The major Internet investor said it stayed in the red for the second consecutive first-half period largely because it continued up-front spending for its broadband service.

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Hitachi group returns to black in fiscal 1st half

TOKYO, Japan - Hitachi Ltd. Vice President Yoshiki Yagi (R) speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Oct. 31. The company said its group returned to the black in the April-September first half of fiscal 2002 with a net profit of 12.85 billion yen.

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Toyota posts record group profit, sales for 1st half

NAGOYA, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. President Fujio Cho is all smiles at a news conference in Nagoya on Oct. 30 as he announced that the Toyota group posted a net profit of 553.80 billion yen and a pretax profit of 794.03 billion yen for the April-September first half of fiscal 2002, both a record high on a half-year basis.

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Supachai calls for Japan's compromise in farm sector

DAVOS, Switzerland - Thai Deputy Prime Minster Supachai Panitchpakdi tells Kyodo News on Jan. 27 in Davos that Japan should make concessions in the agricultural sector in order to successfully launch a new round of trade talks under the World Trade Organization. Supachai is to take over the director general post of the world trade watchdog from Mike Moore in September 2002.

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Japan's Abe in Pyongyang in 2002

File photo taken in September 2002 shows Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (L) shaking hands with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang, with Shinzo Abe (2nd from L), deputy chief Cabinet secretary of Japan, looking on. Abe, who later served as prime minister, was shot to death on July 8, 2022, at age 67, while making a stump speech in Nara, western Japan, for the House of Councillors election.

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Donald Rumsfeld Dies Aged 88

File photo dated September 11, 2002 of Donald Rumsfeld speaks at the 9/11 attack commerative ceremony at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, USA. Donald Rumsfeld, the acerbic architect of the Iraq war and a master Washington power player who served as US secretary of defense for two presidents, has died at the age of 88. Photo by Ron Sachs/CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Negotiator for Japan-N. Korea talks named diplomat to U.S.

TOKYO, Japan - The government decided Jan. 20 to appoint Akitaka Saiki (in file photo), chief negotiator for Japan-North Korea governmental talks, as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the United States. Saiki, 53, currently deputy chief of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, has taken part in diplomacy with North Korea, with which Japan has no diplomatic relations, since September 2002. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo Electric also had reactor troubles

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s No. 2 Fukushima nulear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture. (File photo, taken in September 2002). Tokyo Electric says March 20 that it has unreported problems with reactor control rods at its Fukushima No. 2 nuclear power plant in Fukushima in June 1993 and at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in April 2000 during regular checkups. Three other regional electric power companies have also reported similar nuclear power plant control problems and prompted a government investigation. (Kyodo)

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Ex-Keidanren chief Hiraiwa dies at 92

TOKYO, Japan - A file photo taken in September 2002 shows Gaishi Hiraiwa, former chairman of the defunct Japan Federation of Economic Organizations, or Keidanren, who died on may 22 at age 92. Hiraiwa, a native of Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, was advisor to Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Kyodo)

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Nukaga says he returned 2.2 mil. yen to defense supplier Yamada

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga is in a pensive mood at the House of Councillors Audit Committee on Nov. 19 during questioning about his relationships with scandal-hit defense equipment trader Yamada Corp. Nukaga said Yamada paid 2.2 million yen for his fundraising parties between 2002 and March this year but he has since returned all the money to the firm. Nukaga was defense chief from 1996 to 1998 and from September 2006 to July this year. (Kyodo)

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2 Uniqlo stores launched in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Photo shows one of two Uniqlo casual-clothing stores that opened in Beijing on Sept. 3. The first Uniqlo outlets in Beijing come as part of efforts by Fast Retailing Co. to boost businesses in the Asian market. The company has operated seven Uniqlo stores in Shanghai since September 2002 and opened one in Seoul, South Korea, on Sept. 2. (Kyodo)

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Softbank stays in red on start-up cost for broadband service

TOKYO, Japan - Softbank Corp. President Masayoshi Son speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 15. The company incurred a group net loss of 55.80 billion yen in the April-September first half of fiscal 2002, up slightly from a loss of 54.32 billion yen a year earlier. The major Internet investor said it stayed in the red for the second consecutive first-half period largely because it continued up-front spending for its broadband service. (Kyodo)

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Toyota posts record group profit, sales for 1st half

NAGOYA, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. President Fujio Cho is all smiles at a news conference in Nagoya on Oct. 30 as he announced that the Toyota group posted a net profit of 553.80 billion yen and a pretax profit of 794.03 billion yen for the April-September first half of fiscal 2002, both a record high on a half-year basis. (Kyodo)

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Wolf Lake (2001)

Tim Matheson, Lou Diamond Phillips & Graham Greene Characters: Sheriff Matthew Donner&,160;/ ... (10 episodes, 2001-2002),John Kanin & Sherman Blackstone Television: Wolf Lake (2001) 17 September 2001 Date: 17 September 2001

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Wolf Lake (2001)

Sharon Lawrence, Tim Matheson, Lou Diamond Phillips, Paul Wesley, Mia Kirshner, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Scott Bairstow & Graham Greene Characters: Vivian Cates (9 episodes, 2001-2002),Sheriff Matthew Donner&,160;/ ... (10 episodes, 2001-2002),John Kanin,Luke Cates,Ruby Cates&,160;/ ... (7 episodes, 2001-2002),Sophia Donner&,160;/ ... (10 episodes, 2001-2002),Tyler Creed & Sherman Blackstone Television: Wolf Lake (2001) 17 September 2001 Date: 17 September 2001

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Without A Trace (2002)

Eric Close Characters: Martin Fitzgerald Television: Without A Trace (2002) 26 September 2002 Date: 26 September 2002

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Without A Trace (2002)

Anthony Lapaglia Characters: Jack Malone Television: Without A Trace (2002) 26 September 2002 Date: 26 September 2002

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Without A Trace (2002)

Enrique Murciano, Poppy Montgomery & Marianne Jean-Baptiste Characters: Danny Taylor,Samantha Spade & Vivian Johnson Television: Without A Trace (2002) 26 September 2002 Date: 26 September 2002

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Without A Trace (2002)

Anthony Lapaglia & Enrique Murciano Characters: Jack Malone, Danny Taylor Television: Without A Trace (2002) 26 September 2002 Without a Trace - Spurlos verschwunden (Without a Trace, TV-Serie USA 2002-) Szene mit Anthony LaPaglia (li.), Enrique Murciano (mi.) /------- WICHTIG: Nutzung nur bei Filmtitelnennung und/oder in Zusammenhang mit Berichterstattung ｸber diesen Film --- IMPORTANT: To be used solely for coverage of this specific motion picture Date: 26 September 2002

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Without A Trace (2002)

Poppy Montgomery Characters: Samantha Spade Television: Without A Trace (2002) 26 September 2002 Date: 26 September 2002

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Without A Trace (2002)

Eric Close & Poppy Montgomery Characters: Martin Fitzgerald & Samantha Spade Television: Without A Trace (2002) 26 September 2002 Date: 26 September 2002

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Without A Trace (2002)

Anthony Lapaglia & Enrique Murciano Characters: Jack Malone & Danny Taylor Television: Without A Trace (2002) 26 September 2002 Date: 26 September 2002

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Without A Trace (2002)

Ernie Hudson Television: Without A Trace (2002) 26 September 2002 Without a Trace - Spurlos verschwunden (Without a Trace, TV-Serie USA 2002-) Ernie Hudson /------- WICHTIG: Nutzung nur bei Filmtitelnennung und/oder in Zusammenhang mit Berichterstattung ｸber diesen Film --- IMPORTANT: To be used solely for coverage of this specific motion picture Date: 26 September 2002

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Without A Trace (2002)

Enrique Murciano, Poppy Montgomery, Anthony Lapaglia, Marianne Jean-Baptiste & Eric Close Characters: Danny Taylor,Samantha Spade,Jack Malone,Vivian Johnson & Martin Fitzgerald Television: Without A Trace (2002) 26 September 2002 From left to right, Enrique Murciano, Poppy Montgomery, Anthony LaPaglia, Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Eric Close of the pilot WITHOUT A TRACE. Photo: Tony Esparza/CBS ｩ2002 CBS Worldwide Inc. All rights reserved. Date: 26 September 2002

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Without A Trace (2002)

Eric Close Characters: Martin Fitzgerald Television: Without A Trace (2002) 26 September 2002 Date: 26 September 2002

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Without A Trace (2002)

Charles Dutton Television: Without A Trace (2002) 26 September 2002 Without a Trace - Spurlos verschwunden (Without a Trace, TV-Serie USA 2002-) Charles Dutton /------- WICHTIG: Nutzung nur bei Filmtitelnennung und/oder in Zusammenhang mit Berichterstattung ｸber diesen Film --- IMPORTANT: To be used solely for coverage of this specific motion picture Date: 26 September 2002

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Without A Trace (2002)

Ernie Hudson Television: Without A Trace (2002) 26 September 2002 Without a Trace - Spurlos verschwunden (Without a Trace, TV-Serie USA 2002-) Ernie Hudson /------- WICHTIG: Nutzung nur bei Filmtitelnennung und/oder in Zusammenhang mit Berichterstattung ｸber diesen Film --- IMPORTANT: To be used solely for coverage of this specific motion picture Date: 26 September 2002

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Without A Trace (2002)

Poppy Montgomery & Bruce Davidon Characters: Samantha Spade Television: Without A Trace (2002) 26 September 2002 Without a Trace - Spurlos verschwunden (Without a Trace, TV-Serie USA 2002-) Szene mit Poppy Montgomery, Bruce Davison /------- WICHTIG: Nutzung nur bei Filmtitelnennung und/oder in Zusammenhang mit Berichterstattung ｸber diesen Film --- IMPORTANT: To be used solely for coverage of this specific motion picture Date: 26 September 2002

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Without A Trace (2002)

Enrique Murciano & Ernie Hudson Characters: Danny Taylor Television: Without A Trace (2002) 26 September 2002 Without a Trace - Spurlos verschwunden (Without a Trace, TV-Serie USA 2002-) Enrique Murciano, Ernie Hudson /------- WICHTIG: Nutzung nur bei Filmtitelnennung und/oder in Zusammenhang mit Berichterstattung ｸber diesen Film --- IMPORTANT: To be used solely for coverage of this specific motion picture Date: 26 September 2002