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University of Edinburgh returns Ainu skulls

Executive Director Masaru Okawa (L) and other representatives from the Ainu Association of Hokkaido, a group representing the Ainu indigenous people in the northern Japan region, receive the remains of three Ainu from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland on April 30, 2025. The skulls were kept by the university for about 110 years for research purposes.

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Iwoto Island

File photo taken on Oct. 30, 2023, shows Iwoto Island, a World War II battleground in the Pacific Ocean. Japan and the United States fought a fierce battle on the island, previously known as Iwojima, resulting in the deaths of about 21,900 Japanese and 7,000 U.S. soldiers.

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Giant Xmas tree in northern Japan

A 20-meter-tall Christmas tree is illuminated with about 150,000 LED lights in Hakodate on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Nov. 30, 2024.

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Giant Xmas tree in northern Japan

A 20-meter-tall Christmas tree is illuminated with about 150,000 LED lights in Hakodate on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Nov. 30, 2024.

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Japan's Paris Olympians, Paralympians parade in Tokyo

Japanese fencer Misaki Emura shows her bronze medal from the women's fencing sabre team event at the Paris Olympics during an event in Tokyo on Nov. 30, 2024. About 100 Japanese athletes who competed at the Paris Olympics and Paralympics took part in the event to express their gratitude to supporters.

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Japan's Paris Olympians, Paralympians parade in Tokyo

(from L) Japanese skateboarders Liz Akama, Hinano Kusaki and Coco Yoshizawa march in a parade during an event in Tokyo on Nov. 30, 2024. About 100 Japanese athletes who competed at the Paris Olympics and Paralympics took part in the event to express their gratitude to supporters.

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Crown Princess Kiko attends charity concert

Japanese Crown Princess Kiko (front, C) attends a charity concert in Tokyo on June 30, 2024. About 150 people, including cancer patients, sang "Ode to Joy" from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. (Pool photo)

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Baseball: Dodgers vs. D-backs

Pest control company employee Matt Hilton (L) in his beekeeper suit waves to the crowd before throwing the ceremonial first pitch ahead of a baseball game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Arizona Diamondbacks at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona, on April 30, 2024. He received a standing ovation for removing a buzzing bee colony on the top of the protective netting behind home plate at the ballpark that delayed the game's first pitch for about two hours.

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Baseball: Dodgers vs. D-backs

Pest control company employee Matt Hilton sprays a swarm of bees that had congregated on the top of the protective netting behind home plate at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona, ahead of a baseball game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Arizona Diamondbacks on April 30, 2024. The game's first pitch was delayed about two hours.

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Baseball: Dodgers vs. D-backs

Pest control company employee Matt Hilton throws the ceremonial first pitch ahead of a baseball game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Arizona Diamondbacks at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona, on April 30, 2024. He received a standing ovation for removing a buzzing bee colony on the top of the protective netting behind home plate at the ballpark that had delayed the game's first pitch about two hours.

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Baseball: Dodgers vs. D-backs

A man sprays a swarm of bees that had congregated on the top of the protective netting behind home plate at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona, ahead of a baseball game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Arizona Diamondbacks on April 30, 2024. The game's first pitch was delayed about two hours.

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Baseball: Dodgers vs. D-backs

A man sprays a swarm of bees that had congregated on the top of the protective netting behind home plate at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona, ahead of a baseball game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Arizona Diamondbacks on April 30, 2024. The game's first pitch was delayed about two hours.

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Baseball: Dodgers vs. D-backs

A man sprays a swarm of bees that had congregated on the top of the protective netting behind home plate at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona, ahead of a baseball game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Arizona Diamondbacks on April 30, 2024. The game's first pitch was delayed about two hours.

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Baseball: Dodgers vs. D-backs

Los Angeles Dodgers players Shohei Ohtani (front) and Yoshinobu Yamamoto wait in the dugout for the start of a baseball game against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona, on April 30, 2024. The game's first pitch was delayed about two hours due to a swarm of bees that congregated on the top of the protective netting behind home plate at the stadium.

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Nikkei at lowest year-end level in 29 yrs

TOKYO, Japan - An electronic signboard in the Yaesu district in central Tokyo shows the closing level of the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average on Dec. 30, 2011, the year's last trading day. Although the index gained -- up 56.46 points, or 0.67 percent -- from the previous day to finish at 8,455.35, it lost about 17 percent during the year to mark the lowest year-end closing level since 1982.

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Dolls for girls' happiness

NAGANO, Japan - Lanterns are lit in the shape of a heart as about 1,000 "hina" dolls, ornamental dolls used to pray for girls' happiness, are displayed in an event in Suzaka, Nagano Prefecture, on Jan. 30, 2014.

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Bird flu virus detected in Yamaguchi, 3rd case of winter

TOKYO, Japan - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Koya Nishikawa (C) speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Dec. 30, 2014, after a meeting of ministers related to a bird flu outbreak in the western Japan prefecture of Yamaguchi. The prefectural government began culling about 37,000 chickens in the early morning of the same day at a poultry farm in the city of Nagato after bird flu was confirmed.

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11,000 Santa Clauses gather in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - About 11,000 people dressed like Santa Clause gather at a charity event at Osaka Castle Park in Osaka, western Japan, on Nov. 30, 2014. The event was held to collect money to buy Christmas presents for children suffering from intractable diseases.

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Court orders Nachi-Fujikoshi to compensate forced laborers

SEOUL, South Korea - A woman, one of the plaintiffs filing a lawsuit against Japan's Nachi-Fujikoshi Corp. to seek compensation for their forced labor, speaks to reporters in Seoul on Oct. 30, 2014, after the Seoul Central District Court ordered Fujikoshi to pay compensation ranging from 80 million to 100 million won (about $76,000-$95,000) each. Thirteen victims of forced labor and the relatives of four now-deceased victims have claimed they were deceived into going to study in Japan's Toyama City, where the company is based, and forced to perform hard labor without sufficient food and sleep during the World War II.

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Court orders Nachi-Fujikoshi to compensate forced laborers

SEOUL, South Korea - A woman, one of the plaintiffs filing a lawsuit against Japan's Nachi-Fujikoshi Corp. to seek compensation for their forced labor, speaks to reporters in Seoul on Oct. 30, 2014, after the Seoul Central District Court ordered Fujikoshi to pay compensation ranging from 80 million to 100 million won (about $76,000-$95,000) each. Thirteen victims of forced labor and the relatives of four now-deceased victims have claimed they were deceived into going to study in Japan's Toyama City, where the company is based, and forced to perform hard labor without sufficient food and sleep during the World War II.

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Mt. Daisen climbers enjoy alpine plants in full bloom

YONAGO, Japan - Climbers enjoy seeing Mt. Daisen's blossoming alpine plants at their peak near the Utopia Shelter lodge on the east ridge at an altitude of about 1,500 meters in Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, on July 30, 2014. The 1,729-meter-high mountain is designated as a national park for its magnificent landscape.

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Nippon Steel to buy U.S. auto steel sheet plant

TOKYO, Japan - Shinya Higuchi, vice president of Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp., holds a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 30, 2013. Higuchi said Nippon Steel has agreed to acquire Germany's ThyssenKrupp AG's U.S. automobile steel sheet plant jointly with ArcelorMittal S.A. for about $1.55 billion.

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Japan Tobacco to undertake drastic restructuring

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Tobacco Co. Vice President Akira Saeki speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Oct. 30, 2013, as the company said it will close four of its nine cigarette manufacturing-related factories in Japan and a vending machine production base, most of them in March 2015, and cut 1,600 jobs, or about 20 percent of the employees in its tobacco business, due to falling sales.

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Students tour prime minister's office

TOKYO, Japan - Junior high school students sit in a press conference room at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on March 30, 2013. A total of about 80 local elementary and junior high school students toured the premier's office and adjacent residence, becoming the first members of the general public who were invited to tour the facilities.

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Students tour prime minister's office

TOKYO, Japan - Elementary school students take part in a special tour of the prime minister's office in Tokyo on March 30, 2013. A total of about 80 local elementary and junior high school students toured the premier's office and adjacent residence, becoming the first members of the general public who were invited to tour the facilities.

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Students tour prime minister's office

TOKYO, Japan - Elementary school students sit in a press conference room at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on March 30, 2013. A total of about 80 local elementary and junior high school students toured the premier's office and adjacent residence, becoming the first members of the general public who were invited to tour the facilities.

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Students tour prime minister's office

TOKYO, Japan - Elementary school students take part in a special tour of the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on March 30, 2013. A total of about 80 local elementary and junior high school students toured the premier's office and adjacent residence, becoming the first members of the general public who were invited to tour the facilities.

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Students tour prime minister's office

TOKYO, Japan - Junior high school students sit in a press conference room at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on March 30, 2013. A total of about 80 local elementary and junior high school students toured the premier's office and adjacent residence, becoming the first members of the general public who were invited to tour the facilities.

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Students tour prime minister's office

TOKYO, Japan - Junior high school students take part in a special tour of the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on March 30, 2013. A total of about 80 local elementary and junior high school students toured the premier's office and adjacent residence, becoming the first members of the general public who were invited to tour the facilities.

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U.N. disarmament meeting in Shizuoka

SHIZUOKA, Japan - The U.N. Conference on Disarmament Issues begins at a hotel in Shizuoka, central Japan, on Jan. 30, 2013. About 70 government officials and academic experts from 16 countries gathered for the three-day meeting to discuss nuclear disarmament.

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IBM Japan to have 1st foreign president in 56 years

TOKYO, Japan - Martin Jetter, vice president of corporate strategy at International Business Machines Corp., holds a press conference at the head office of IBM Japan Ltd. in Tokyo on March 30, 2012. The Japanese unit said the same day Jetter will succeed Takayuki Hashimoto as its president, effective May 15, becoming the first non-Japanese president of IBM Japan in about 56 years.

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Costume-clad runners in Osaka Marathon

OSAKA, Japan - Combined photo shows participants in the inaugural Osaka Marathon running in their chosen attire in the city of Osaka in western Japan on Oct. 30, 2011. About 30,000 people took part in the event.

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Milk produced in Fukushima dumped

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Unprocessed milk from cows in Fukushima Prefecture is dumped in the town of Kawamata in the prefecture on March 30, 2011. About 200 tons of milk are discarded each day due to the risk of radiation contamination from the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the prefecture triggered by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Culling of chickens begins for suspected bird flu

MATSUE, Japan - Chickens are culled at a poultry farm in Yasugi, Shimane Prefecture, on Nov. 30, 2010, after bird flu infections were suspected. The Shimane prefectural government began destroying about 23,000 chickens at the farm.

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Tokyo Disneyland reopens Michael Jackson's 3-D attraction

CHIBA, Japan - Visitors line up for a 3-D theater attraction featuring the late entertainment icon Michael Jackson at Tokyo Disneyland in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture, as the attraction reopened for the first time in about 14 years on July 1, 2010. The theme park plans to run ''Captain EO'' through June 30, 2011.

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JAL's negative net worth reaches around 1 tril. yen

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Airlines Corp. President Masaru Onishi, seated next to company Chairman Kazuo Inamori, speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on June 30, 2010. JAL announced the same day that its negative net worth -- liabilities in excess of assets -- has expanded to about 1 trillion yen.

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100,000 N. Koreans rally over ship sinking

PYONGYANG, North Korea - About 100,000 people rally at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang on May 30, 2010, for the overthrow of the South Korean government in the wake of its sanctions on the North over the deadly sinking of a South Korean warship.

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Civilians riding oxcart, walking through Tokyo during wartime

TOKYO, Japan - Survivors of the May 25, 1945 air raids by B-29 bombers on Tokyo are seen walking and riding an oxcart through scorched Tokyo. The attack was the second deadliest after the March 10, 1945 air raids on the capital in which about 100,000 were killed. The photo was taken in Tokyo on May 30, 1945.