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Extra Diet session ends

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (2nd from R) and other lawmakers applaud in the Diet in Tokyo on Sept. 30, 2011, as an extraordinary Diet session, the first parliamentary session since the launch of the government under Noda on Sept. 2, ended the same day. A third extra budget for fiscal 2011 to finance postdisaster reconstruction efforts will be deliberated at the next session which is expected to be convened as early as mid-October.

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Keidanren's Yonekura in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Hiromasa Yonekura, chairman of the Japan Business Federation known as Nippon Keidanren, speaks to reporters in Beijing on June 2, 2011. He called for a grand coalition for the sake of postdisaster reconstruction.

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No-confidence motion defeated

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) casts his vote on a no-confidence motion against his Cabinet at the Diet on June 2, 2011. The motion was rejected after he announced his intention to step down once certain progress is made in containing the nuclear crisis and implementing postdisaster recovery moves.

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Japan envoy thanks U.S. for postdisaster help

WASHINGTON, Unites States - Ichiro Fujisaki (front), Japan's ambassador to the United States, speaks before a panel of the U.S. House of Representatives' Foreign Affairs Committee in Washington on May 24, 2011. He expressed gratitude for U.S. help in relief work following the catastrophic March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

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Extra Diet session ends

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (2nd from R) and other lawmakers applaud in the Diet in Tokyo on Sept. 30, 2011, as an extraordinary Diet session, the first parliamentary session since the launch of the government under Noda on Sept. 2, ended the same day. A third extra budget for fiscal 2011 to finance postdisaster reconstruction efforts will be deliberated at the next session which is expected to be convened as early as mid-October. (Kyodo)

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Keidanren's Yonekura in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Hiromasa Yonekura, chairman of the Japan Business Federation known as Nippon Keidanren, speaks to reporters in Beijing on June 2, 2011. He called for a grand coalition for the sake of postdisaster reconstruction. (Kyodo)

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No-confidence motion defeated

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) casts his vote on a no-confidence motion against his Cabinet at the Diet on June 2, 2011. The motion was rejected after he announced his intention to step down once certain progress is made in containing the nuclear crisis and implementing postdisaster recovery moves. (Kyodo)

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Japan envoy thanks U.S. for postdisaster help

WASHINGTON, Unites States - Ichiro Fujisaki (front), Japan's ambassador to the United States, speaks before a panel of the U.S. House of Representatives' Foreign Affairs Committee in Washington on May 24, 2011. He expressed gratitude for U.S. help in relief work following the catastrophic March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. (Kyodo)