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PM Abe says Japan determined to conclude TPP talks

MILAN, Italy - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers a speech at a meeting of around 300 people, including business leaders, in Milan, Italy on Oct. 16, 2014. Speaking ahead of a two-day summit of the Asia-Europe Meeting in the Italian city, Abe expressed his determination to conclude the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade talks and reach a free trade agreement with the European Union.

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Gymnast Uchimura holds Guinness World Records certificate

NAGASAKI, Japan - London Olympic gold medalist Kohei Uchimura, five-straight men's all-around world champion in gymnastics, holds a certificate in Nagasaki on Oct. 16, 2014. He was listed by the Guinness World Records as the man with the world's largest number of sixth-straight individual all-around title in gymnastics.

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'Matsutake' mushrooms auctioned off for high price

HASHIMOTO, Japan - Hidenori Kawai, a food shop owner in Hashimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, shows "matsutake" mushrooms from Koya in the western Japan prefecture bought in his successful bid at a local market on Sept. 16, 2014. The highest winning bid was 60,000 yen per kilogram, which would fetch a retail price of around 10,000 apiece.

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Pan-Japan Sea economic exchange group holds general meeting

KANAZAWA, Japan - Isao Nagahara, head of the Around Japan Sea Economic Exchange Conference, addresses an annual meeting of the group in Kanazawa, central Japan, on June 16, 2014. The meeting adopted a fiscal 2014 business plan calling for greater economic exchanges between the Hokuriku region on the Japan Sea coast and South Korea.

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Lexus IS sedan

NAGOYA, Japan - File photo shows the hybrid model of Toyota Motor Corp.'s Lexus IS luxury sedan. Toyota Motor said on June 18, 2013, it has sold around 7,600 of the remodeled Lexus IS luxury sedans in Japan since the May 16, 2013, launch, nearly 10 times the initial sales target of 800 vehicles a month.

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Leak in Fukushima plant tank

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Naomi Hirose holds a press conference at the J-Village outpost in Fukushima Prefecture on May 16, 2013. The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex said that around 20 liters of radioactive water escaped from the first of three underground water tanks found to have leaked at the plant, much smaller than the earlier estimate of 120 tons.

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African resources business confab

TOKYO, Japan - A two-day meeting to discuss how to utilize African natural resources starts in Tokyo on May 16, 2013. The Japan Sustainable Mining, Investment and Technology Business Forum, or J-SUMIT, puts together around 2,000 people, including natural resources ministers from 15 African nations, attending.

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Meteor strikes Russia

CHELYABINSK, Russia - Photo taken Feb. 16, 2013, shows a hole about 8 meters in diameter on the ice of Chebarkul Lake in the Russian region of Chelyabinsk, with news crews making reports. The hole is believed to have been made by one of the meteor fragments that fell on the region the previous day, which left around 1,200 people injured.

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Antinuclear rally in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - A man holds a board showing a view against nuclear power plants in an anti-nuclear power plant rally at Tokyo's Yoyogi Park on July 16, 2012. The assembly, dubbed "100,000 People's Assembly to say Goodbye to Nuclear Power Plants," drew a crowd of around 170,000 people, according to organizers.

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Antinuclear rally in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Nobel literature laureate Kenzaburo Oe speaks at an anti-nuclear power plant rally, called for by a group led by Oe and other celebrities, at Tokyo's Yoyogi Park on July 16, 2012. The assembly, dubbed "100,000 People's Assembly to say Goodbye to Nuclear Power Plants," drew a crowd of around 170,000 people, according to organizers.

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Antinuclear rally in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Musician Ryuichi Sakamoto speaks at an anti-nuclear power plant rally at Tokyo's Yoyogi Park on July 16, 2012. The assembly, dubbed "100,000 People's Assembly to say Goodbye to Nuclear Power Plants," drew a crowd of around 170,000 people, according to organizers.

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Antinuclear rally in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - People parade in an anti-nuclear power plant rally in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on July 16, 2012. The assembly, dubbed "100,000 People's Assembly to say Goodbye to Nuclear Power Plants," drew a crowd of around 170,000 people, according to organizers.

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Antinuclear rally in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - People parade in an anti-nuclear power plant rally in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on July 16, 2012. The assembly, dubbed "100,000 People's Assembly to say Goodbye to Nuclear Power Plants," drew a crowd of around 170,000 people, according to organizers.

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Antinuclear rally in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - People parade in an anti-nuclear power plant rally in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on July 16, 2012. The assembly, dubbed "100,000 People's Assembly to say Goodbye to Nuclear Power Plants," drew a crowd of around 170,000 people, according to organizers.

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Antinuclear rally in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken by a Kyodo News helicopter shows people gathering in an anti-nuclear power plant rally at Tokyo's Yoyogi Park on July 16, 2012. The assembly, dubbed "100,000 People's Assembly to say Goodbye to Nuclear Power Plants," drew a crowd of around 170,000 people, according to organizers.

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Antinuclear rally in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken by a Kyodo News helicopter shows people gathering in an anti-nuclear power plant rally at Tokyo's Yoyogi Park on July 16, 2012. The assembly, dubbed "100,000 People's Assembly to say Goodbye to Nuclear Power Plants," drew a crowd of around 170,000 people, according to organizers.

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Antinuclear rally in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken by a Kyodo News helicopter shows people parading in an anti-nuclear power plant rally in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on July 16, 2012. The assembly, dubbed "100,000 People's Assembly to say Goodbye to Nuclear Power Plants," drew a crowd of around 170,000 people, according to organizers.

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Ex-PM Kan in interview

TOKYO, Japan - Former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on Sept. 16, 2011. Kan said he learned shortly after the nuclear crisis erupted at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant that around 30 million people in Tokyo and surrounding prefectures may have to be evacuated in a worst-case scenario.

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Archery in traditional attire

KYOTO, Japan - Young women in traditional attire take part in an archery competition at Sanjusangendo temple in Kyoto, western Japan, on Jan. 16, 2011. Around 2,000 people from across the country, including many aged 19 and 20 celebrating their coming of age this year, took part in the event.

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Security drill ahead of APEC

TOKYO, Japan - Police officers use a dog trained to detect explosives during a drill in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on April 16, 2010, as part of preparations for a series of meetings of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum slated for November in Japan. The Metropolitan Police Department mobilized around 120 officers for the drill.

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4 mil. signatures for NPT review confab

TOKYO, Japan - A Japanese antinuclear group holds a gathering in Tokyo on March 16, 2010, to ship boxes containing a petition signed by around 4 million people to the upcoming U.N. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference in New York.

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Canon to acquire biggest European printer maker Oce

TOKYO, Japan - Canon Inc. President Tsuneji Uchida (L) shakes hands with Anton Schaaf, chief technology officer and chief operating officer of Oce NV of the Netherlands, the biggest printer maker in Europe, during a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 16, 2009, at which they announced that Canon will acquire Oce through a takeover bid worth about 730 million euros (around 100 billion yen).