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G-8 summit: G-8 leaders pose for commemorative photo

TOYAKO, Japan - Leaders of the Group of Eight nations and other invited participants pose for a commemorative photo on July 7, the opening day of the three-day G-8 summit at Windsor Hotel Toya in Toya, Hokkaido. From L to R: U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, African Union Commission Chairman Jean Ping, Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua, Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Ghana's President John Kufuor, Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev, Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, U.S. President George W. Bush, Japan's Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki, France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, Tanzania's President Jakaya Kikwete, Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and World Bank President Robert Zoellick. (Pool photo)

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G-8 summit: Fukuda meets with South African President Mbeki

TOYAKO, Japan - Japan's Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (far L) meets with South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki (far R) on the sidelines of an ''outreach'' meeting between the leaders of the Group of Eight nations and key African countries at Windsor Hotel Toya in Toya, Hokkaido, on July 7. (Pool photo)

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G-8 summit: Fukuda meets with South African President Mbeki

TOYAKO, Japan - Japan's Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (R) poses with South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki during a bilateral meeting at Windsor Hotel Toya in Toya, Hokkaido, on July 7. Mbeki is in Japan for an ''outreach'' meeting between the leaders of the Group of Eight nations and key African countries. (Pool photo)

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G-8 summit: G-8 leaders pose for commemorative photo

TOYAKO, Japan - Leaders of the Group of Eight nations and other invited participants chat during a photo session for G-8 and African leaders attending the G-8 ''outreach'' meeting at Windsor Hotel Toya in Toya, Hokkaido, on July 7. From L to R: Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, U.S. President George W. Bush, Japan's Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki and France's President Nicolas Sarkozy. (Pool photo)

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Lake Toya resort in Hokkaido picked to host 2008 G-8 summit

LAKE TOYA, Japan - A photo taken on April 23 shows the Windsor Hotel Toya in the southern Hokkaido hot-spring resort of Lake Toya, which Prime Minister Shinzo Abe picked on April 23 as the main venue of the summit of the Group of Eight nations in 2008.

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Experts begin revising Mt. Usu outlook

TOYA, Japan - Mt. Usu continues spewing steam, ash and smoke April 12 after the 732-meter volcano erupted March 31 for the first time in nearly 23 years. Experts got together the same day to revise their official outlook on the possibility of a violent eruption, after magma movements there became localized and the chance of an imminent eruption appeared to have dwindled.

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Elderly women look tired after eruptions of Mt. Usu

TOYOURA, Japan - Elderly women appear tired on April 2 as they were forced to move to a shelter in the village of Toya, Hokkaido, from another shelter following a series of eruptions of Mt. Usu. The photo was taken at an agricultural training center at 2 p.m.

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Mt. Usu volcano continues to belch smoke

TOYA, Japan - The Mt. Usu volcano in southwestern Hokkaido continues belching smoke from its craters at 8:25 a.m. April 2. The 732-meter volcano erupted March 31 for the first time in nearly 23 years. It erupted for a fourth time April 1.

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Mt. Usu erupts again, belches smoke

TOYA, Japan - The Mt. Usu volcano in southwestern Hokkaido belches heavy smoke from a crater on its western foot at around 9:45 a.m. April 1.