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Size:
628K
Date: 2014-09-22
Title: F/A-18 jet takes off from aircraft carrier in drill
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GUAM, United States - An F/A-18 fighter jet takes off from the U.S. aircraft carrier George Washington during a U.S. military exercise in the Pacific Ocean off the U.S. island territory of Guam on Sept. 17, 2014. (Kyodo)
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Size:
1224K
Date: 2014-09-22
Title: F-22 stealth fighter on tarmac for U.S. military drill
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GUAM, United States - A cutting-edge F-22 stealth fighter stands on the tarmac for maintenance on Sept. 15, 2014, during a U.S. military exercise in the Pacific Ocean off Guam. The drill, called "Valiant Shield 2014," was shown to some media. (Kyodo)
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Size:
482K
Date: 2014-09-22
Title: F/A-18 jet touching down on aircraft carrier in drill
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GUAM, United States - An F/A-18 fighter is about to touch down on the U.S. aircraft carrier George Washington during a U.S. military exercise in the Pacific Ocean off Guam on Sept. 17, 2014.(Kyodo)
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Size:
1037K
Date: 2014-09-22
Title: Tanita to begin office cafeteria business in China
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TOKYO, Japan - Senri Tanita (C), president of Tanita Corp., a body fat scale maker known for offering healthy office cafeteria food, joins other officials in clasping hands in Tokyo on Sept. 17, 2014, at a press conference announcing the launch of a food business in China. The company will open on Sept. 22 its first office cafeteria in the compound of its health appliance affiliate in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, northeastern China. (Kyodo)
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Size:
1131K
Date: 2014-09-22
Title: IC card depicting popular cartoon series launched
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SHIZUOKA, Japan - Officials of the Shizuoka municipal government and Shizuoka Railway Co. show a mock version of an IC card for paying transport fares and shopping expenses featuring characters in the "Chibi Maruko-chan" (Little Maruko) comic series in the central Japan city of Shizuoka on Sept. 17, 2014. The popular series depicts the everyday life of a little girl and her family in Shizuoka's Shimizu Ward in the 1970s. (Kyodo)
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Size:
764K
Date: 2014-09-22
Title: Syrians keep fleeing from home country into Turkey
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KILIS, Turkey - Syrians continue to walk on Sept. 10, 2014, seeking to illegally cross the border into an area near the southern Turkey city of Kilis from Syria before U.S. air strikes against Islamic State militants in their country. (Kyodo)
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Size:
1650K
Date: 2014-09-22
Title: Russian flag raised at naval facility in Crimean city
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SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine - A Russian national flag is posted in place of a Ukrainian flag at a naval facility in Perevalnoye on the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula on Sept. 16, 2014. (Kyodo)
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Size:
1380K
Date: 2014-09-22
Title: Shoppers swarm vegetable shop in Simferopol amid shortage
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SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine - A long line of shoppers is formed in front of a vegetable shop in Simferopol on Sept. 16, 2014, amid a food shortage since Russia's annexation of the Crimean Peninsula six months earlier. (Kyodo)
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Size:
800K
Date: 2014-09-22
Title: Group of Syrians rests after illegally entering Turkey
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KILIS, Turkey - A group of Syrians rests on Sept. 10, 2014, after illegally crossing the border into an area near the southern Turkey city of Kilis from Syria before U.S. air strikes against Islamic State militants. More than three million Syrians are estimated to have fled their country. (Kyodo)
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Size:
1747K
Date: 2014-09-22
Title: Russian tourists crowd beach in Yalta, Crimea
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SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine - Russian tourists account for an overwhelming majority of bathers on a beach in Yalta on Sept. 16, 2014, after a lapse of six months since Russia's annexation of the Crimean Peninsula. (Kyodo)
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Size:
1149K
Date: 2014-09-22
Title: Temple refurbishes exhibit of wooden god reliefs
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NARA, Japan - A Buddhist priest watches a refurbished display of the wooden reliefs of 12 gods, designated as national treasures, at Kofuku-ji temple in the ancient capital of Nara in western Japan on Sept. 17, 2014, on the eve of the public opening of the exhibition. (Kyodo)
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Size:
1298K
Date: 2014-09-22
Title: Nippon Steel shows U.S. plant run jointly with ArcelorMittal
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CALVERT, United States - A U.S. steel sheet plant in Calvert, Alabama, acquired jointly by Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. of Japan and ArcelorMittal S.A. of Luxembourg from Germany's ThyssenKrupp AG is shown to the press in this file photo taken on Oct. 8, 2013. (Kyodo)
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Size:
1297K
Date: 2014-09-22
Title: 1st edition of 'Anne of Green Gables' displayed at fair
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FUKUOKA, Japan - The Iizuka municipal government in Fukuoka Prefecture exhibits the first published edition of "Anne of Green Gables," written by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery and seen in this undated file photo, at a fair under way from Sept. 18, 2014, in the southwestern Japan city in connection with Japanese public broadcaster NHK's "Hanako and Anne" television drama series depicting the life of Hanako Muraoka, a Japanese translator of the book. (Kyodo)
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Size:
1234K
Date: 2014-09-22
Title: Nippon Steel shows U.S. plant run jointly with ArcelorMittal
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CALVERT, United States - A senior official at a U.S. steel sheet plant in Calvert, Alabama, acquired jointly by Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. of Japan and ArcelorMittal S.A. of Luxembourg from Germany's ThyssenKrupp AG, briefs reporters in this file photo taken on Oct. 8, 2013. (Kyodo)
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Size:
1036K
Date: 2014-09-22
Title: Ex-S. Korean player hopes for reunion with N. Korean partner
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TOKYO, Japan - Hyung Jung Hwa, a former South Korean table tennis player who formed a united Korea team with Ri Bun Hui of North Korea to win the women's doubles event in the World Table Tennis Championships held in Chiba, Japan, in April 1991, speaks about her hope for a reunion with her former partner at the Asian Paralympics in Inchon in October 2014 at a press conference in the South Korean city on Sept. 12. (Kyodo)
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