CORRECTED Filipinos in Japan disaster area

CORRECTED Filipinos in Japan disaster area

KESENNUMA, Japan - CORRECTING TYPO IN HEADLINE Charito Ito (L) and other women from the Philippines study for exams together in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on July 18, 2011. They hope to pass an examination to be qualified to work as caretakers in Japan. Many of them are wives of Japanese men and used to work in the local fisheries industry but lost jobs after the March quake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

CORRECTED N. Korea foreign minister in Bali

CORRECTED N. Korea foreign minister in Bali

NUSA DUA, Indonesia - CORRECTING TYPO North Korean Foreign Minister Pak Ui Chun (L front) is welcomed by Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa (R) upon his arrival in Nusa Dua on the Indonesian island of Bali on July 22, 2011, for events related to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations forum. (Kyodo)

CORRECTED Japan Week in New York

CORRECTED Japan Week in New York

NEW YORK, United States - CORRECTING TYPO (SERIES, NOT SERIOUS AS SENT BEFORE) Instructor Soheki Mori (2nd from R) performs the traditional Japanese tea ceremony at Vanderbilt Hall inside Grand Central Terminal station in New York on March 1, 2012, for a series of Japan Week events that began the same day to commemorate Japan's 1912 gift to Washington and New York of several thousand cherry trees. (Kyodo)

CORRECTED Japan Week in New York

CORRECTED Japan Week in New York

NEW YORK, United States - CORRECTING TYPO (SERIES, NOT SERIOUS AS SENT BEFORE) A group of women wearing kimono decorated with cherry blossoms are at Times Square in New York on March 1, 2012, for a series of Japan Week events to commemorate Japan's 1912 gift to Washington and New York of several thousand cherry trees. (Kyodo)

CORRECTED Japan Week in New York

CORRECTED Japan Week in New York

NEW YORK, United States - CORRECTING TYPO (SERIES, NOT SERIOUS AS SENT BEFORE) A group of women wearing kimono decorated with cherry blossoms are at Times Square in New York on March 1, 2012, for a series of Japan Week events to commemorate Japan's 1912 gift to Washington and New York of several thousand cherry trees. (Kyodo)

CORRECTED Japan Week in New York

CORRECTED Japan Week in New York

NEW YORK, United States - CORRECTING TYPO (SERIES, NOT SERIOUS AS SENT BEFORE) Photo taken March 1, 2012, shows Vanderbilt Hall inside Grand Central Terminal station in New York, where a series of Japan Week events began the same day to commemorate Japan's 1912 gift to Washington and New York of several thousand cherry trees. (Kyodo)