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Football legend Pele dies at 82

File photo shows Pele in action for New York Cosmos during his retirement match against Japan's Furukawa Electric in September 1977 at the National Stadium in Tokyo. The Brazilian football legend died at 82 on Dec. 29, 2022, after a battle with colon cancer.

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German student wins love letter contest in Japan

KYOTO, Japan - Quitz Anna Milena, a German university student, speaks after winning the first prize at the fifth love letter contest award ceremony in Kyoto on Nov. 29, 2014. She had studied in Japan for two years until September 2014.

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M'bishi Motors net profit surges 30% in April-Sept.

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Motors Corp. Chairman Osamu Masuko attends a press conference in Tokyo, Japan, on Oct. 29, 2014. The company said while its group net profit for the April-September period surged 30.3 percent from a year earlier to 60.89 billion yen thanks to cost-cutting efforts and the yen's depreciation, it was downgrading its sales forecast for the entire fiscal 2014 to 2.18 trillion yen from the previously projected 2.3 trillion yen.

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Emperor Showa's annals completed in 24 years

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Emperor Hirohito reviews troops at a military parade in Tokyo on April 29, 1944. The Imperial Household Agency is due to publish the 12,000-page annals of the emperor, posthumously known as Emperor Showa (1901-1989), in mid-September after some 24 years of work.

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U.S. had 4,804 nuclear warheads as of Sept. 2013

NEW YORK, the United States - Rose Gottemoeller, U.S. under secretary of state for arms control and international security, speaks at the Third Meeting of the Preparatory Committee for the 2015 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference at the U.N. headquarters in New York on April 29, 2014. She said the U.S. had 4,804 nuclear warheads stockpiled of as of September, 2013.

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Midsize firm president shines as principal in film in 60s

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Aug. 29, 2013 in Tokyo shows Masahiro Yoshino, president of Tokyo-based Media Research Inc. who produced a film titled "Ningen" together with his employees and friends. Yoshino also played the principal character of an elderly man running a company in the film, which broke into the list of nominees for the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival in September.

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Japan, China mark 40th anniversary of ties amid tensions

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in September 1972 shows Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka (R) waving at people seeing him off at Shanghai airport, with Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai (L) standing next to him, after the two leaders signed a joint statement to end the state of war between the two countries and normalize bilateral ties. Japan and China marked the 40th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations on Sept. 29, 2012, as simmering tensions sparked by Tokyo's nationalization of a group of Japanese-administered, Beijing-claimed islands in the East China Sea showed no signs of subsiding.

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Mazda in Russia

MOSCOW, Russia - Mazda Motor Corp. President Takashi Yamanouchi (R) unveils the automaker's remodeled Mazda6 sedan at a motor show in Moscow on Aug. 29, 2012. Yamanouchi said Mazda will initially produce 30,000 vehicles a year at its factory in Vladivostok, in the Russian Far East, scheduled to start operating in September 2012.

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H.K. rally against nat'l education

HONG KONG, China - Tens of thousands of people march in Hong Kong on July 29, 2012, in a demonstration against the planned implementation of a national education curriculum in public schools starting in September the same year, calling it brainwashing and an attempt to glorify Beijing's ruling Communist Party.

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'Wasabi fire alarm' wins Ig Nobel prize

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Yukinobu Tajima, head of the Fragrance Marketing Association, in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, in April 2009 holding a fire alarm device that informs people with hearing impediments of a fire by emitting a pungent ''wasabi'' horseradish smell. Tajima, together with six other Japanese researchers, were awarded the 2011 Ig Nobel prize in chemistry at the award ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on September 29, 2011, for inventing the device.

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Unseasonable cherry blossoms in typhoon-hit area

NACHIKATSUURA, Japan - A cherry tree blooms by the side of the Nachi River in the typhoon-hit town of Nachikatsuura, Wakayama Prefecture, on Sept. 29, 2011. Experts said the tree might have unseasonably bloomed after heavy rain brought by Typhoon Talas in early September deprived it of its leaves and prevented it from entering a dormant state before blooming next spring.

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Sony returns to black in April-Sept.

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Financial Officer Masaru Kato briefs reporters in Tokyo on the company's financial results for the April to September period on Oct. 29, 2010. The company swung back into the black as a result of a favorable performance in the game business and personal computer sectors as well as its cost-cutting efforts.

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Keio's forestation plan in China recognized as climate project

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in September 2008 shows Keio University researchers inspecting a forestation site in China's Shenyang. A forestation program being promoted by the university in China has been recognized by the Japanese government as a Clean Development Mechanism project under the Kyoto Protocol designed to reduce global carbon dioxide emissions, government officials said Dec. 29, 2009.

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Remembrance event for "Golgo 13" manga artist

Two people look at magazine covers on display at a farewell gathering for late Japanese manga artist Takao Saito, the creator of long-running comic book series "Golgo 13," held in a Tokyo hotel on Sept. 29, 2022. Saito died of pancreatic cancer in September last year.

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Remembrance event for "Golgo 13" manga artist

A fan snaps a photo of a life-sized "Golgo 13" statue at a farewell gathering for late Japanese manga artist Takao Saito held in a Tokyo hotel on Sept. 29, 2022. Saito died of pancreatic cancer in September last year.

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Memorial for "Golgo 13" Japanese manga artist

A memorial gathering is held for Japanese manga artist Takao Saito -- the creator of long-running series "Golgo 13," who died in September 2021 at age 84 -- in Tokyo on Sept. 29, 2022.