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Parade in disaster-hit central Japan city

A 9-meter-tall lantern called Kiriko is paraded during a traditional festival on Oct. 13, 2024, in Suzu, a central Japan city in Ishikawa Prefecture that is still reeling after it was severely damaged by a powerful earthquake on New Year's Day, and heavy rain and subsequent flooding in September.

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Parade in disaster-hit central Japan city

A 9-meter-tall lantern called Kiriko is paraded during a traditional festival on Oct. 13, 2024, in Suzu, a central Japan city in Ishikawa Prefecture that is still reeling after it was severely damaged by a powerful earthquake on New Year's Day, and heavy rain and subsequent flooding in September.

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Parade in disaster-hit central Japan city

A 9-meter-tall lantern called Kiriko is paraded during a traditional festival on Oct. 13, 2024, in Suzu, a central Japan city in Ishikawa Prefecture that is still reeling after it was severely damaged by a powerful earthquake on New Year's Day, and heavy rain and subsequent flooding in September.

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Parade in disaster-hit central Japan city

A 9-meter-tall lantern called Kiriko is paraded during a traditional festival on Oct. 13, 2024, in Suzu, a central Japan city in Ishikawa Prefecture that is still reeling after it was severely damaged by a powerful earthquake on New Year's Day, and heavy rain and subsequent flooding in September.

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Parade in disaster-hit central Japan city

A 9-meter-tall lantern called Kiriko is paraded during a traditional festival on Oct. 13, 2024, in Suzu, a central Japan city in Ishikawa Prefecture that is still reeling after it was severely damaged by a powerful earthquake on New Year's Day, and heavy rain and subsequent flooding in September.

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Swimming: Tokyo Olympic gold medalist Ohashi to retire

Japanese swimmer Yui Ohashi shows off her two Tokyo Olympic gold medals on Aug. 1, 2021, at Tokyo Aquatics Centre in the capital. The 28-year-old women's 200- and 400-meter individual medley champion at Tokyo Games plans to retire from competition after her final race in September 2024, a source close to the matter said on Aug. 13, 2024.

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Expo'70: Mitsubishi Miraikan

Mitsubishi Miraikan, the Mitsubishi Pavilion at Expo'70. ==Date: September 13, 1970, Place: Suita City, Osaka

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Expo'70: Closing ceremony, The Crown Prince and Princess

The Crown Prince and Princess attend the closing ceremony of the Expo'70 ==Date: September 13, 1970, Place: Suita City, Osaka

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Expo'70: Apollo 8

Apollo 8 command module on display in the U.S. Pavilion at Expo '70. ==Date: September 13, 1970, Place: Suita City, Osaka

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Expo'70: Moving walkway

Moving walkways were installed at the Expo'70 venue. ==Date: September 13, 1970, Place: Suita City, Osaka

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Expo'70: Furukawa Pavilion

Furukawa Pavilion, Seven-storied Pagoda, Pavilion, and Ropeway (Gondola) at Expo'70 == Date: September 13, 1970, Place: Suita City, Osaka

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Expo' 70: Exhibition view of the Soviet Pavilion

A photograph of the Vostok spacecraft and Yuriy Gagarin on display in the Soviet Pavilion at Expo'70. ==Date: September 13, 1970, Place: Suita City, Osaka

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Expo'70: Closing ceremony

Exit parade team marching at the closing ceremony of the Expo'70. == Date: September 13, 1970, Place: Suita City, Osaka

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Expo'70: Closing ceremony

Exit parade team marching at the closing ceremony of the Expo'70. == Date: September 13, 1970, Place: Suita City, Osaka

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Expo'70: Bulgarian Pavilion

The exterior view of the Bulgarian Pavilion at Expo '70 Osaka == Date: September 13, 1970, Place: Suita City, Osaka

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Expo'70: Crowded venue

The venue of the Expo'70 is crowded with many visitors. The Tower of the Sun, the symbol of Expo '70, is at the far left, and the monorail runs in front of it.==Date: September 13, 1970, Place: Suita City, Osaka

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Expo'70: Companions in uniform

Companions in uniform ==Date: September 13, 1970, Place: Suita City, Osaka

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Brazil group calls for continued JAL flights to Sao Paulo

TOKYO, Japan - Kokei Uehara (L), honorary chairman of the Brazilian Society of Japanese Culture and Social Services, meets with senior vice transport minister Taizo Mikazuki at the transport ministry in Tokyo on Aug. 13, 2010. Uehara asked Mikazuki to help Japan Airlines Corp., currently undergoing state-backed rehabilitation, to review a plan to suspend flights to Sao Paulo from September.

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Recruit's 1st half net profit falls 4% to 28.48 bil. yen

TOKYO, Japan - Masumi Minegishi, president of Recruit Holdings Co., briefs reporters on the company's half-year earnings report for the April-September period in Tokyo on Nov. 13, 2014. The media and human resources company's net profit for the period fell 4.1 percent from a year earlier to 28.48 billion yen in its first earnings report since listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange last month.

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Slack real estate business takes toll on China's economy

BEIJING, China - A worker takes a break at a condominium complex construction site in Beijing on Oct. 13, 2014. Sluggish real estate business is viewed as a major culprit behind China's economic slowdown to a relatively low year-on-year growth rate of 7.3% in the July-September quarter.

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Condo complexes being built in Beijing amid low-key GDP data

BEIJING, China - Condominium complexes are under construction in Beijing on Oct. 13, 2014. Sluggish real estate investment sent China's year-on-year economic growth slowing to 7.3% in the July-September quarter.

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Ferry service to end between north Japan and Sakhalin

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - Heart Land Ferry Co.'s ferryboat linking Wakkanai in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido and Sakhalin in the Russian Far East is anchored at Wakkanai port on Aug. 13, 2014. The company announced the end of service between the two cities at the end of September due to a continuing deficit.

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Two holy flames for Asian Games combined for torch relay

INCHON, South Korea - Two holy flames, lit separately in Inchon, South Korea, and New Delhi, India, for the Asian Games opening in the South Korean city in September are carried forward to be combined in a ceremony on Aug. 13, 2014, ahead of the start of a torch relay.

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Abe gives thank-you letter to Chinese student

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese student Yan Jun (L) receives a letter of commendation from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Nov. 13, 2013, for rescuing a boy from a swollen river in Osaka during a typhoon in September. Abe applauded Yan for his "courageous act."

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Former Defense Agency chief Kawara dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in September 2008 shows Tsutomu Kawara, the former director general of the Defense Agency. Kawara died of pneumonia on Jan. 13, 2013, at a hospital in Nanao, Ishikawa Prefecture. He was 75.

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Students from quake-hit Tohoku visit Ground Zero in N.Y.

NEW YORK, United States - Tsubasa Sugeno (L), a university student hailing from Nihonmatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, and Lee Ielpi, president of the September 11th Families' Association, trace together names of Japanese victims of the Sept. 11 terror attacks engraved on the stone monument at the World Trade Center site in New York on Aug. 13, 2012. Students hailing from the prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima, which were severely hit by the 2011 March earthquake and tsunami disasters, visited the site and met the bereaved families of the 9/11 victims.

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Students from quake-hit Tohoku visit Ground Zero in N.Y.

NEW YORK, United States - Ayaka Ogawa (L), who graduated from a senior high school in Iwate Prefecture, and Lee Ielpi, president of the September 11th Families' Association, trace together names of Japanese victims of the Sept. 11 terror attacks engraved on the stone monument at the World Trade Center site in New York on Aug. 13, 2012. Students hailing from the prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima, which were severely hit by the 2011 March earthquake and tsunami disasters, visited the site and met the bereaved families of the 9/11 victims.

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Japan's beer shipments record 1st rise in 6 years

TOKYO, Japan - A supermarket employee in Tokyo's Meguro Ward stacks up cases of inexpensive ''third-category'' beer-like beverages in August 2010. Shipments of beer and beer-like beverages between July and September logged the first year-on-year increase in six years for the reporting quarter due to scorching summer weather in statistics released on Oct. 13, 2010.

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JAL incurs net loss of 131.2 bil. yen in April-Sept.

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Airlines Corp. President Haruka Nishimatsu listens to a question from a reporter during a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 13, 2009. Nishimatsu announced that JAL incurred a net loss of 131.22 billion yen in the April-September period.