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Int'l Drone Expo begins in Japan

CHIBA, Japan, April 20 Kyodo - The International Drone Expo at the Makuhari Messe convention center in Chiba, near Tokyo, attracts many visitors on April 20, 2016. Around 70 companies from home and abroad joined the three-day event through April 22.

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Subway terror attack rescue drill conducted

TOKYO, Japan - Firefighters with protective gear conduct a rescue drill at a subway station in Tokyo's Hibiya district on Nov. 20, 2014, simulating a terror attack. Around 300 police officers and firefighters participated in the drill prior to the 20th anniversary of the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system by the Aum Shinrikyo cult that killed 13 people and injured more than 6,000, on March 20 next year.

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Subway terror attack rescue drill conducted

TOKYO, Japan - Firefighters with protective gear conduct a rescue drill at a subway station in Tokyo's Hibiya district on Nov. 20, 2014, simulating a terror attack. Around 300 police officers and firefighters participated in the drill prior to the 20th anniversary of the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system by the Aum Shinrikyo cult that killed 13 people and injured more than 6,000, on March 20 next year.

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Japanese community papers in fierce battle in U.S.

NEW YORK, United States - Ryoichi Miura, publisher of the Shukan New York Seikatsu, a New York City-based Japanese community paper with a weekly circulation of around 20,000 copies, holds a copy of the paper in New York on Oct. 20, 2014.

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New island merges with neighbor island

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from an airplane on Dec. 26, 2013, shows Nishinoshima Island (back), an uninhabited island in the Ogasawara chain around 1,000 kilometers south of Tokyo, and a new islet that grew and merged with it. The Japan Coast Guard confirmed the formation of the new islet on Nov. 20, 2013, following an undersea volcanic eruption.

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New island merges with neighbor island

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from an airplane on Dec. 26, 2013, shows Nishinoshima Island (back), an uninhabited island in the Ogasawara chain around 1,000 kilometers south of Tokyo, and a new islet that grew and merged with it. The Japan Coast Guard confirmed the formation of the new islet on Nov. 20, 2013, following an undersea volcanic eruption.

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New islet merges with neighboring island

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from an airplane on Dec. 26, 2013, shows Nishinoshima Island (R), an uninhabited island in the Ogasawara chain around 1,000 kilometers south of Tokyo, and a new islet that grew and merged with it. The Japan Coast Guard confirmed the formation of the new islet on Nov. 20, 2013, following an undersea volcanic eruption.

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Youths meet U.N. chief

NEW YORK, United States - Around 400 students from the United States, Japan, Jordan and several other countries attend a dialogue with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon at the organization's global headquarters in New York on Feb. 20, 2013.

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Personal effects of Korean victims of Japan's forced labor

SEOUL, South Korea - Photo taken in Seoul on Aug. 20, 2012, shows the personal effects of victims of forced mobilization by Japanese authorities in Korea while the peninsula was under Japanese rule between 1910 and 1945, gathered and unveiled by the Commission on Verification and Support for the Victims of Forced Mobilization under Japanese Colonialism in Korea, a South Korean government agency. The agency said the same day around 226,000 people had registered as victims of the forced mobilization since a fact-finding investigation began in 2005.

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Personal effects of Korean victims of Japan's forced labor

SEOUL, South Korea - Photo taken in Seoul on Aug. 20, 2012, shows the personal effects of victims of forced mobilization by Japanese authorities in Korea while the peninsula was under Japanese rule between 1910 and 1945, gathered and unveiled by the Commission on Verification and Support for the Victims of Forced Mobilization under Japanese Colonialism in Korea, a South Korean government agency. The agency said the same day around 226,000 people had registered as victims of the forced mobilization since a fact-finding investigation began in 2005.

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Hokuetsu Kishu to become largest stockholder of Daio Paper

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a building housing the Tokyo headquarters of Daio Paper Corp. in Tokyo's Chuo Ward on June 20, 2012. Hokuetsu Kishu Paper Co. is considering purchasing a stake of around 20 percent in scandal-tainted Daio Paper for around 10 billion yen to become its largest stockholder, a company source said the same day.

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Hokuetsu Kishu to become largest stockholder of Daio Paper

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the headquarters of Hokuetsu Kishu Paper Co. in Tokyo's Chuo Ward on June 20, 2012. Hokuetsu Kishu Paper is considering purchasing a stake of around 20 percent in scandal-tainted Daio Paper Corp. for around 10 billion yen to become its largest stockholder, a company source said the same day.

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Univ. of Tokyo president

TOKYO, Japan - Junichi Hamada, president of the University of Tokyo, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 20, 2012. He said the leading Japanese university will switch the start of its academic year from spring to fall ''within around five years.''

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Flooded road in Ishinomaki

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - A woman walks on a flooded road in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 20, 2011. The area sank around 80 centimeters after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and high tides have been flooding the area since the disaster.

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Cabinet Secretariat got 1.2 bil. yen annually in secret funds

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirfumi Hirano speaks about so-called secret funds received by the Cabinet Secretariat during a news conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Nov. 20, 2009. Hirano said the secretariat received around 100 million yen in such funds each month from April 2004 through last month.