Japanese food

Japanese food

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 22, 2013, shows dishes of the month at Japanese restaurant Edo Kappo "Yonemura" in Tokyo. The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is expected to register traditional Japanese food as an intangible cultural heritage asset in early December 2013.

Bodies found in Saitama

Bodies found in Saitama

TOKYO, Japan - A Jan. 29, 2013, photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a vacant lot in Kuki, Saitama Prefecture, where the body of a Swiss-based Japanese financier and another body believed to be that of his wife have been found. The wealthy couple went missing in early December 2012 after traveling back from Switzerland.

Bodies found in Saitama

Bodies found in Saitama

TOKYO, Japan - A Jan. 29, 2013, photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a vacant lot in Kuki, Saitama Prefecture, where the body of a Swiss-based Japanese financier and another body believed to be that of his wife have been found. The wealthy couple went missing in early December 2012 after traveling back from Switzerland.

Body of missing financier found near Tokyo

Body of missing financier found near Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 29, 2013, shows a plot of land in Kuki, Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo, where the body of a Swiss-based Japanese financier and another body believed to be that of his wife were found. The couple, Makoto Shimomi and his wife Mie, went missing in early December after traveling back from Switzerland.

NASA Delays The James Webb Space Telescope Launch Again

NASA Delays The James Webb Space Telescope Launch Again

★Handout photo dated July 27, 2013 of the optics module of the James Webb Space Telescope's primary imager, the Near Infrared Camera, arrived at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. In this photo, Lockheed Martin engineers attach a lift sling to the NIRCam instrument. Last summer, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) set an October 31, 2021, launch date for the $ 10 billion James Webb Space Telescope, but it's having to delay the science observatory's trip into space once again. Thankfully, the launch might take place just a few weeks later, in November or early December. A rescheduled date is unlikely to be confirmed until later this summer or perhaps in the fall. The instrument, successor to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, which is the largest science observatory ever placed into space, will launch on a European Ariane 5 rocket from a spaceport in French Guiana. Photo

NASA Delays The James Webb Space Telescope Launch Again

NASA Delays The James Webb Space Telescope Launch Again

★Handout photo dated November 26, 2013 of The robotic arm lifts and lowers a golden James Webb Space Telescope flight spare primary mirror segment onto a test piece of backplane at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. While the team practices the positioning that will be done on the actual telescope in the cleanroom, Dave Sime, an assembly crew chief, inspects the mirror placement from the underside of the backplane. Last summer, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) set an October 31, 2021, launch date for the $ 10 billion James Webb Space Telescope, but it's having to delay the science observatory's trip into space once again. Thankfully, the launch might take place just a few weeks later, in November or early December. A rescheduled date is unlikely to be confirmed until later this summer or perhaps in the fall. The instrument, successor to NASA's Hubble Space Telesc

Ruling on noise damage at Iwakuni base to be handed down

Ruling on noise damage at Iwakuni base to be handed down

File photo taken December 2013 shows the Iwakuni air base in the western Japan city of Iwakuni. A district court will hand down a ruling on Oct. 15, 2015, on a lawsuit in which some 650 people living around the base are seeking compensation for noise damage and suspension of early morning and nighttime jet flights. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo